Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-09-16
The Negro College For Education
Not For Agitation Protests
And Demonstrations

Those who have any doubts about the Rus
sian Communists invention of the technique of
stirring up student agitation, protests and dem
OnstrationS to support the propaganda drive to
destroy the United States and dominate and en-
slave the world should read the article in the
August 10Th edition of the Saturday Evening
Post under the caption: Big Push in Soviet Prop
uganda
Our reading the article just before the open
ing of the 1861 school year focused our thoughts
anew on the predictions already made that there
will be more agitation, protests and demonstra-
lions by Negro students during this school year, as
all the Negro Colleges are opened
We take the position that one of the greatest
mistakes that has been made already by those cur
rently leading the drive for Negro Civil rights is the
adoption of the Communist invented technique of
using Negro students for agitation, protests, and
demonstrations. Since those who are responsible
for such mistakes in public affairs seldom if ever
take the necessary steps to correct them, we see
the need for stopping this use of Negro students
in the communist scheme to destroy the United
States as the greatest challenge facing the
parents of Negro Students and Negro teachers in
Negro colleges.
There is already enough evidence throughout
the nation to show that the aim of the communists
propaganda to take away from the students their
respect for all existing authority, including both
legal and parental, and thus making them respon-
sive only to the emotions and actions excited and
inspired by communist propaganda, has already
been accomplished to a large extent among Negro
students in this country
In the very first place would point out to
Negro parents, who have hopes as we did, that
their children in college will turn out to be
somebody in accordance with accepted American
education standards, that students who engage in
the agitation protests and demonstrations backed
by Rev. Martin Luther King CORE, and the MA
ACP run the risks of being permanently marked
by the adverse psychological effects of such &C
tivites being doomed for ever to life of agita-
ton, with little hope for peace of mind, content
ment and lasting success
In the College classroom American history will
support the teacher in asserting that agitation,
protests, and demonstrations are not the best and
only methods that Negroes can use in the quest
for civil rights and frstclass citizenship that the
constantly evolving American democratic legsla-
tive process, supported by favorable public opin-
ion, will bring to Negroes in this country far
greater and more lasting progress and benefits
than anything to be gained by agitation, protests
and demonstrations.
Finally, we of the opinion, that in order
to save them for greater contribution to the
progress of the nation, and for the advancement
OF the race it is now the greatest challenge of Ne
gro parents and Negro teachers to again insti in
Negro students the idea that their main purpose
for being in college is to obtain an education and
not for agitation, protests, and demonstrations