Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-12
Carl Rowan And Tennessee
A&IUniversity

According to press reports, Carl Rowan, Negro
State Department official recently appointed by Pres
dent Kennedy has refused to accept Honorary Doc
tors Degree, preferred by Tennessee & | University
of Nashville Tennessee famed Negro institution with
smatterng of white students since the coming in
egration whose high scholarship standards match
ed by athletic program that has consistently pro-
duced championship teams in football and basketball,
and which has now come up with the world renowned
Negro track stars, Ralph Boston and Wilma Rudolph.
1t goes almost without saying that Tennessee & l
University is ranked high among the nations leading
educational Institutions.
The reason for Mr.. Rowan's tart refusal the honor
originally preferred and accepted before the incident
according to press reports because the university
had fit to dismiss group of students arrested and
jail Freedom Riders for disobeyng the rules of the
University.
Prior to his refusal to accept the honor from the
University, Mr.. Rowan had drawn attention to himself
in speech in which he referred to former President
Truman in what could easily be regarded deliberate
y insulting terms, because of the former Presidents
remarks adverse to the Freedom Riders.
Mr.. Rowan is the prototype of Negroes living out
side the SOUTH ensconced in high positions who gby
assert that they would not live in the south if it were
given to Them but who with pious mein and militant
afronrey assume to speak for southern Negroes and
about how to correct conditions the south about which
they know little, if any thing at all,
Those who have been observant of developments in
American and world history during the past two decades
VIII find 1t easy to recognize the fact that the
lately groups such as CORE and the Southern Christ
contributed single original thought idea to the field
of relations in the south, in the rest of the
country Every movement and technique endorsed and
promoted by these groups being foreign and communist
importaons The worst of which is the effort to use
Negro students in promoting the communist technique
of Student demonstrations in this country technique
used by the communists to overthrow every existing
government in the nations they dominate in their
continuing march toward world domination.
We say that student demonstrations are diametric-
ally in opposition to the orderly American Democratic
process and have place in this country even in the
name of Negro rights and first-class citizenship.
That the Freedom Riders and other demonstrators
are doing nothing towards helping to develop the all
senal public opinion favorable to the advancemers of
Negro rights but is the contrary producing the OPP
poste results may be in the remarks last week
of Judge Samuel S. Lebowitz, of New York obviously
aimed at Negro demonstrations and resistance to legal
y constituted authority spreading throughout the
country.
In view of the above it will be seen that we recog
nlze Mr. Rowan the kind of spokesman whose help
southern Negroes could be do without that he appears
to us as poor representative of the u S. State De-
partment in the fight against communism and that we
are OF the opinion that his action has done nothing to
halt the continued progress of Tennessee & State
University.