Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-02-11
Meeting The Challenge OF Public
School lntegration In Mississippi

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School lntegration In Mississippi
onng the fact that he is the editor of the Jackson
State Times of the states rising daily newspapers
and that he is also editor and publisher of the McComb
Enterprise Journal paper of wide circulation and in
fuence. and because of his many distinguished serv-
ices to the state in positions of high responsibility must
certainly be ranked among the states most widely
known, most widely respected and influential contem-
porary leaders.
In recent weeks a number of editorials in the
State Times, bearing his by-lne has revealed deep
concern the part of Mr. Emmerich with the greatly
deteriorated relations between the white people and
Negroes of the state and with the emminence of the
problem of dealing with public school Indignation now
facing the state rendered less urgent by the reports
regarding attempts of Negro students to enroll at the
University of Mississippi this week
In recent edition of of the nations greatest
and most widely read magazines of public opinion the
State of North Carolina one of the most, if not the
most advanced and progressive Southern state fact
reflected in the wealth and achievements of both it's
Negro and white citizens, is pointed out the classic
example in meeting the challenge of preserving the
goodwill, and continued cooperation of the Negro and
white citizens of the state while meeting the chal-
lenge of public school integration
Under the leadership of Governor Luther Hodges,
who has moved up to cabinet post in the Kennedy Ad-
mnisration Secretary of Health Education and We'll
fare the program adopted in North Carolina runs
parallel with program for nter-racal goodwill prog
and continued cooperation between the white and
Negro leaders of Mississippi presented by the Editor
the Jackson Advocate at statewide meeting of white
and Negro leaders held in Jackson in 1854 before the
T. s. Supreme Court decisions in the school integra-
ton cases. The meeting being called by Honorable
Hugh White, then the Governor of the state.
The program offered for Mississippi which we say
is paraeled by the program subsequently adopted in
North Carolina with such salutary effect contained the
following six points:
% Equal public schools, including teachers sal
aries books and offered for Negro students
with Negro teachers from the LIST thru the 18th grade
(2l Alcorn College, Jackson College, and Misss-
sipp Vocational College to be brought up the high
est standards and to be maintained primarily for Ne
gro Students but with bars against other students
90 The admission of Negro students to the Uni
versty of Mississippi and Mississippi College for
professional studies and graduate work.
(4) The election and appointment of Negroes on
all policy making Boards and Committees, both local
and state concerned with the maintenance and opera
ton of the State Public School System.
(5) The elimination of all jimcrow signs and seq
regatlon in all types of Buses trains and other forms
OF public transportation, and in bus and railway sta
tons
co. The immediate removal of all restrictions against
Negro voting in the state to securing great
err cooperation between Negro and white citizens in
veloPlng and CARRYING out this program
The success and failure of the meeting called by
Governor White is subjects that needs discussion
here.
In meeting the challenge of public school integra-
Clon In North Carolina there threats of blood
she'd violence intimidation reprisa against Negro
citizens of the state seeking negrated schools, but in
schools educational facilities and educational oppor
tunity. This fact has been accomplished to such a
great extent that it is being said that if Negro
students entered white schools in certain sections of
North Carolina they would actually get education in
feror to what now exists in Negro schools in the
areas.
The impact of the salutary program in North Caro-
lima the minds of Negro citizens of the state has
brought token integration' to standstil which
probably caused one prominent Negro leader of the
state to say that Negroes don't really want to go
public schools with white people, but just don't like to
be told that they cannot CO.
We Mssissippians who didn't already know about
the greatly inferior education for Negroes in the state
longer in doubt since the widely published
report of the u. S. Commission on Civil Rights, and
that of the Southern Association of Colleges and Sec
ondary Schools
The United States is rapidly becoming island
hemmed-on from all but small portion of the world
people because of COmmunisms skilled of Negro
equality in the United States in conjunction with its
aim for world domination, and Mississippi in it's
ent attitude is the most vulnerable point for Commun-
st propaganda
We fail to see the challenge of public school nte-
grafton and inter-racia goodwill 50 nterwoven in the
future welfare of this nation and of democracy in the
world the responsibility of the Negro leaders of the
state but responsibility which rests with the white
leaders of the state the sole of the
and authority.
In conclusion we say that the time has already