Jackson advocate., 1963-04-13
A Call For New Negro Leaders

In the news from over in Birmingham. Ala
bama where an all out drive for desegregation has
been underway for the past several days. is the re-
port, that for the second time during the Kennedy
Administration the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr
and his cohorts have rejected top level call for
"coollng-off period among Negroes in agitation
and demonstrations for civil rights The first call
having come, some months ago now from none
other than President Kennedy himself; and now
the second, coming last week from Robert F. Ken
nedy the attorney general of the United States.
When subjected to intelligent analysis in the
light of the past history of the south and of the ma
uon, and IN the light of contemporary Developments
this repeated show of intransgence on the part of
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his cohorts such
as Rev. Fred L. Shuttesworth can only be seen and
judged as doing the Negro and his cause far more
harm than good.
One look at the past history of the south and
of the nation will reveal to anyone of average in
telllgence, that Negroes being lead into repe-
ton OF the history that led to the postReconstruc-
TONS 'UnWrltten Compromise" the total disfran-
chisement of the southern Negro, the south's one
party political system, the enactment of the seq
regatlon laws and the discrimination that has been
the southern Negroes greatest handicap during the
one hundred years since emancipation.
A look at contemporary developments will re-
veal that now as in the days Immediately following
the emancipation, known to history as the Recon
struction Era, when it's greatest speakers and
thinkers, including Henry w. Grady of Georgia,
L. Q. c. Lamar, of Mississippi, Henry Watterson of
Kentucky and Chas. P. J. Moody of Tennessee was
calling upon northern leaders to allow the south TO
workout the Negro problem in it's own way, the
ablest speakers and thinkers of the south are now
again going to the north and calling upon northern
leaders to again give way and allow the south TO
work out the Negro problem in its own way
Such intransgence as has already now been
demonstrated by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr and
his cohorts might we'll be used to justify anything
that might be said regarding Negroes by southern
ers speaking to groups outside the south
There is all kinds of charges coming out in the
open now that point to the fact that Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr., and his cohorts are not nearly
as much interested in Negro civil rights as they
would have most Negroes believe, but instead are
playing both ends against the middle for their per-
sona, and private benefit. The latest charge COM
ing last week to the effect that Rev Martin Luther
King, Jr.s Southern Christian Leadership Council
has been sold out to Governor Rockefeller of New
York, fact which accounts for some of his recent
criticisms of President Kennedy
Finally, we can find no logic, political or other
wise, for the assumption of such an attitude in the
name of the twenty million Negroes in the United
States living among it's hundred eighty million
white people; and it is studied opinion that
since they have demonstrated no respects for the
highest opinions, and the highest authority, the
time has come for us as Negroes to start look
ing about for some leader before the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr., and his cohorts have led
us down the road to the point of no return.