Jackson advocate., 1962-08-11
| See Lack 80.
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Commissioner Duncan said
that relations had improved be-
tween whites and Negroes in the
naton's capital. Fifty-four per
cent of Washington's population
is Negro, according to Commits
sioner Duncan.
"In the field of housing, we
still have a serious problem"
Commissioner Duncan told his
listeners.
Administrators appearing on
the panel in addition to Com
missioner Duncan, included May
or Samuel Yorty of Los Ange-
les, Acting Mayor Paul Screvane
os New York, and City Man.
ager Joseph Mcdowell Mitchell
of Newburgh, New York.
Meeting with them were Roy
Wilkins, Executive Secretary of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, Alexander J. Allen, Asso-
ciate Director of The National
Urban League, DR.. Anna Arnold
Hedgeman, Consultant, Division
of Higher Education and The
American Missionary Associa-
ton of the United Church of
Christ, William Kuntsler, Spec
ial Attorney for the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence, and Harry Van Arsdale,
Jr., President of the New York
City Central Labor Council, |
AFL-CIO.
The meeting was moderated |
by Louis Lomax, author of "The
Reluctant African" and "The
Negro Revolt"
Reporting that "the Negro
population outside of the Deep
South has nearly tripled just
since 1940," the Readers Digest
article compares the Negro
newcomers with immigrant
groups arriving from overseas
during the last century, but
makes the point that assimila-
tion is more difficult for Ne
groes than for European immi-
grants because of their skin
color.
That the difference has Gre
ated problems for people on
both sides of the color barrier
was obvious in the symposium
discussion.
Said Mayor Yorty: "When l
was elected Mayor of Los An
gcles l felt that it was a real
triumph for the Negroes of my
city. | set about Immediately to
bring qualified Negroes into the
administration where they could
have an important voice in the
way things were run. From the
beginning, however, / have
found some fringe segments of
the Negro community and an in
flammatory Negro Press deter
mined to degenerate the good
viii of any white man, whoever
he may be-"
AS a case in point Mayor
Yorty mentioned a photograph
which West Coast Negro pa {
per had printed showing twin {
Negro girls, who the paper said,
had been handcuffed and showed
out of their public school class {
in racial clash. Mayor Yorty
asserted that when he investi- ,
gated the story he found that
there was no truth to it at ALL
In recalling the incident, May ,
or Yorty referred to the say
ing "a lie truly believed is just ,
as important as the truth" Ne ,
gro publishers who resort to
ilflammatory reporting, Mayor ,
Yorty believes, are using "truly .
believed lies" to foment strife ,
between the races, and so, he
believes are Negro leaders who
preach hate thinly disguised as
NEGRO nationalism."
Calling such inflammatory re-
porting embarrassing" Com
missioner Duncan of Washing
ton, himself a Negro, said that
the Negro publishers who resort
to it compromise their own pow
er. when they do print the
TRUTH" he explained, nobody
will believe them"
What happens, Commissioner
Duncan believes, is that many
Negroes feel more resentful
than the unvarnished truth will
express, so they elaborate stor-
les Of dissension and fail al
most entirely to report "the
good things that happen"
It was this kind of resent
ment which made it possible
for Negro passengers to turn
their backs on white bus driv-
er when he was attacked during
a recent Washington incident,
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