St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-04-27

AuXilia Sagwette, 20, an A
spent three months touring the
United States as a prize winner IN
The New York Herald Tribune's
1861 essay contest, says the Amer
lean southland.
Mrs. Tommie Anderson Sank
ange, American-born psychologist
living in Salisbury, says Southern
Rhodesia.
On her return here, Miss Sag
wette, a student at Goromozi
school just outside Salisbury, said
she was deeply shocked by the
racial prejudice and segregation
she observed in the Southern part
of the United States.
Il enjoy far more freedom Of
movement here" she said, than
I encountered in the southern
states of America"
She said that during her trip in
America she was one of 81 stu
dents. II had first-hand experience
of the Southern brand of racialism.
In a little town in North Carolina
we wanted to have lunch. Several
restaurants refused to admit us
because we were a mixed group.
Finally we were taken to an fnte-
grated restaurant about three
miles away and there we were
served.
Il found it very strange to en-
counter such prejudice in a coun-
try as advanced as America"
Auoxilia doesn't think so much
of us. educational standards,
either. She said: Their high
school standards are much lower
than here"
But she goes for President Ken
needy in a big way. She and the
other students met him in Wash
ington. Of him, she said: "A Won
derful man. We all felt quite at
ease when speaking with him."
Contrary to Miss Sagwette's
conclusions are those of DR.. Tom
ME Anderson Samkange, who was
born in Mississippi, one of the
southern states to which Miss Sag
cite referred.
Holder of the Phi. D. degree In
psychology from the University of
Indiana, the American Negro
woman is making her home here.
Being from Mississippi, she is
familiar with some of the worst
aspects of race relations in Amer
lea, and those here.
LAS bad as Mississippi is this is
worse" she told AMP editor Enoc
Waters during his recent visit
here.
This, of course, is no compi-
ment to Mississippi. Whereas they
have jim crow buses in my state,
they have separate buses for
whites and blacks here. In Miss
issippi, we have universal suffrage.
Though by intimidation, many Ne
groes are prevented from voting,
they at least have the right legally
to do so. Here, the legal right to
vote doesn't even exist.
I'm Mississippi, we have jim
crow schools. Here, the federal
government makes no provision
for the education of Africans,
while it provides excellent schools
for whites.
ITO sum it all up, the American
government, by constitution, by
law and by supreme court edict is
dedicated to the proposition that
all men are entitled to equal treat
ment, regardless of their race,
color or religion. Such is unheard
of here.
Further, many of our states
have enacted laws under which a
person subjected to racial discrim-
ination has legal recourse in our
civil and criminal courts. Not only
is such unheard of here, but in
most other countries Of the world
as we'll"
Her husband, Stanlake Sank
ange, now a public relations ad-
visor - she met and married him
while he was studying for his mas
ter's degree in vocational educa-
ton at the University of Indiana,
added:
Il was born here but, as you
know, partly educated in America.
In recognizing the principle that
man is a man regardless Of his
race or nationality. America Is far
ahead of US here"