Arizona sun., 1963-01-24
EDITORIAL
PAT BROWNS PLEDGE TO EQUALITY


For Chnese-Anericons one Of the most heortenne
things Governor Browns inaugural address today
his stotennent on racial discrimination We feel this
statement should be quoted here without deleon
"On January l. 1853" soid Governor Brown, "on
order signed by President Lincoln promised oil slaves in
worrne stotes tho they would be forever free. One
hundred years week have posed since the Eon
cipoticn Proclamation become ow In conscience con
not soy today hot have edemmed LincoIns promise
-Four years oeo you and prohibited discrimination in
employment because Of oce creed not;ono origin but
further octon is Necessary.
IL ask you to strengthen and extend existing law
against discrimination in housing by expanding the Foir
Employment Practices Commission into Hunon Rights
Commission with authority to against discriminatory
proctices in housing.
I'm the same spirit work to eliminate the de
focto segregation in our public schools and promise
give TIE Stote Bood Of Education my full support in its
efforts in thot direction
This spring will executive order to oil stote
administrators the form Of Governors Code Of Foir
Its intent will be to wipe cut all vesti9es Of dis
elimination in government In addition urge you to
require oil persons and businesses licensed by the sote to
adopt strict policies against discrimination.
No. America hos not yet redeemed lincon's promise.
Rocism dies hard Although the Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitution orbds obrideeent Of the rights Of
any citizen because Of roce color previous condition Of
servude it does not Negroes in Louisiana and
Mississippi todoy from being beaten and jailed hov
ing their churches and homes burned down. being
murdered because they have the courage assert their
citizenship at the polls.
Chinese have been slaves this country but
they understand with bitter thooughness the nature of
discrimination The citizens of Chinatown have not for
gotten thot in California there ontChnese riots
and ynchnes They have not forgotten tho Chinatown
thot beautiful and loved community was once ghetto to
which they confined by Iow
Most certainly the Chinese Exclusion Act of hated
memory which denied to OrientoIs the right to SO much
os enter this country immigrants against the spirit
if not the letter of the Fourteenth Amendment
Todoy this paper wishes to point OUT special restric-
tons oeonst Orentos thot remain in this counys i'm
migration lows must still be considered discriminatory
Of course, the world does move" as GoIeo Iona
told his nquistos at the risk Of his neck More and
more groups finding it Necessary foce up to
the reolities Of life in democracy
Next week Amercon churches of oil denominations
will hold in Chicago National Conference on Religion
ond Race, to discuss woys of getting rid Of discrimination
in religious groups
Less than month oeo. the ever-so-excIusve Cosmos
Club Of Washington D. c., the home corro Of the nations
intellectual elite erased its Of discrimination by
ot lost admitting to membership Negro the distinguished
historon John Hope Franklin
Is much hope thot process Of time an eouo-
y distinguished Characterization scholar may be odded
to the roster?
Indeed the world does move. Therefore, with Gov
Brown ond quite few other people on the side of
hundred yeors have been the hardest