Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-06-24
Will Southern Negro History
Repeat Itself


through which the Negroes of the south passing
is not the first such period when politicians and other
forces outside the south have manifested real egned
interest and concern for the rights and well being of
southern Negroes.
In the period Immediately following the close of the
Civil War; at the insistence of northern politicians seek
ing the southern Negro for the purpose of partisan
political advantage aided by other forces federal troops
sent to the south for the announced purpose of
guarding the freedom and citizenship rights of the
newly emancpated Negro Citizens These federal troops
remained in the south just long enough to make possible
the Hayes lden Deal which brought about the removal
of the federal troops and made possible the
ton of the UnWrtten Compromise leaving the Negroes
to reply solely the goodwill and assistance of the bet
ter thinking southern White People
The period Immediately follwing the withdrawal of
the federal troops from the south and the consumation
or the Un-Wrltten Compromise is known to historians
the Reconstruction Era An Era at the zenith of which
the better thinking White People of the South despite
total disranchisemen of Negroes and racial segrega-
ton laws were hardly able to restrain the of
ynchngs violence and other outrages against Negroes
Writers of southern history invariably point out
that the of unresraned violence directed against
Negroes during the Reconstruction Era and it's after
math was due mainly to the arrogance, impudence and
i-mannered conduct of Negroes in their relations with
White People while the federal troops stationed in
the SOUTH and while northern politicians and others
side the south manfesting real fegned interest
and concern for the welfare of southern Negroes.
In reports from every section of the country with
first the sending of federal troops to Little Rock during
the school Indignation crisis and the sending of
bOO T. d MarShaS to Montgomery to protect the Free
dom Riders identifying this period with the period when
federal troops were first sent to the south behalf of
Negroes there is abundant evidence that Negroes to-
day are beginning to conduct themselves in their rela
lions with White People, to large extent, exactly as
was done during the first period That this is true
be seen not only reports of incidents in which ordn
airy Negroes become envoved but CO also be seen in
the incorporate and undpomatic statements of Negro
leaders.
There is already beginning to appear, for all those
who have eyes to see from editorial in of the
tons leading Newspapers in New York and other widely
scattered sections of the north east and west develop
ing change in public opinion that could well lead to the
same kind of relationship and understanding between
northern and southern White people which gave rise to
the Un-Written Compromise.
The saying that history repeats itself is fairly
common saying but it has been pointed out that history
repeats itself only when prompted by the mistakes of the
first instance. This leads the the question will the
history of the southern Negro in the Reconstruction Era
and the MISREPRESENTATION aftermath repeat itself
We the answer to the above question as the
most serious and farreaching responsibility facing
the National Association for the Advancement of Color
ed People, Rev. Martin Luther King and his Christian
Leadership Conference of non-voent resistance and
all the Negro preachers in the local communities who
have allowed their pupits to become fucrum to sup
plant the true Gospel of Jesus Christ with petitions and
proclamations on Civil Rights
In conclusion this editorial is written to arouse the
thinking and help influence the attitude and conduct in
their relations with White People, of those Negroes in
Mississippi, well in the rest of the SOUTH who de-
spite Boosting and Establishments have chosen to
main in the south to share in it's future progress and
development and who still have the good to realize
that real lasting progress made by southern Negroes
toward frstcass citizenship going to depend finally
the goodwill and assistance of the better thinking
southern White People