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THE JACKSON ADVOCATE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
Entered as Second Class Matter in the Post Office at Jackson,
Miss., July 13, 1945 under Act of Congress, March 13, 1879.
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“In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as
the fngers. but in all things that affect our mutual progress and
development we can be together as the hand.” Booker T. Wash
ington.
ON THE LOCATION OF THE NEGRO
VOCATIONAL COLLEGE
One of the most tragic happenings respecting the
equalization of educational opportunities in Mississippi
where, under the state constitution, existing state laws,
and supported by the recent decision of the United States
Supreme Court, the educational opportunities for white
and colored citizens, while separate, must be equal, was
the action lost week of citizens of Carroll County in pro
testing against the location of a Negro Vocational College
at the Greenwood Army Air Base. The provisions and
appropriations for the establishment of the college, which
will be the first and only such institution in the state for
Negroes, having been made by the last regular session of
the state legislature.
Stripped of the emotions which appear so evident in
this action, the objections stated in the protest in the
light of the experience of oher communities in the state
where Negro colleges are located appear wholly without
foundation. '
Referring to the objection that the proposed location
would create a police problem in Carroll County, we have
the example here in Jackson where students from Jackson
College, Campbell College and Tougaloo College spend
most of their time off the campus, but who through the
years have contributed almost nothing to the rate of crime
committed by Negroes and to the resulting problem of
law enforcement in the city.
The same is true of the students of the colleges at
Holly Springs, Okolona, Piney Woods, Prentiss, Utica, Nat
chez and Alcorn.
There is no evidence of criminal tendencies and dis
respect for law and order on the part of Negro college stu
dents.
On the objection that the proposed location would add
additional numbers of educable children to the schools of
Carroll County, there is no evidence in support of the im
plication that the families of Negroe college professors
are unusually prolific; the number of educable children
found among the staff of the colleges would be absorbed
unnoticed by the existing facilities for common school
education in Greenwood.
Assuming that the use ot the entire 5i acres com
prising the Greenwood Army Air Base for the college woul
remove the property from the tax roll of the county, this
loss in tax revenue to the county would result in a far
greater saving to the state through acquiring the property
and its already exitsing buildings and other facilities, at a
minimum of cost from the Federal Government.
Without going through the other objections raised,
which are equally susceptible we come to the last and
most regrettable in which it is stated that the location of
between the white and colored races. Seeing that it is so
the college as proposed would not increase good feeling
widely held that education alone and only can lead to bet
ter interracial understanding and goodwill, bewilderment
and frustration among the Negro citizens of the state will
be increased and heightened by this threat of fear and
intimidation rgearding the matter of locating an institu
tion for Negro education.
Early this week the protest had evoked no further
action or comment from the State Board for Institutions
of Higher Learning.
The great tragedy in the action of the Carroll Coun
ty citizens lies in the fact that it comes at a time when
there existed a growing universality of opinion and confid
ence among the Negro citizens that all intelligent white
people in Mississippi were favorable to the need of improv
ment of educational opportunities for Negro citizens of
the state, in all areas, and that steps would be taken im
mediately and from time to time to ammend the vast in
equalities existing between Negro and white education,
with the approval everywhere of intelligent citizens
throughout the state.
WHEN JACKIE ROBINSON IS CALLED OUT
Jackie Robinson became the first Negro to break
through into the major league Friday, April 11th, 1947.
When President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers
announced the purchase of his contract from the Montreal
Royals a few days ago.
The brilliant and youthful former UCLA all-around
athlete will in aH probability make good in the big league.
We beieve that Jackie has the technical know-how to
EDITORIALS
make good in the major league, even under such extra
ordinary circumstances.
We base our assumption upon Jackie's own utterance,
we quote: "I am on the spot and I know it. But I am pre
pared for it. I am certain I can with them over in Brook
lyn as I did in Montreal." Therefore the great question is
will the members of the Negro race be as conscious as
Jackie himself in regards to his making good in the major
league. In other words, when a white umpire calls Jackie
Robinson out in any of the games in which he is playing,
can the Negro fans take it on the chin like Jackie.
Jackie will take his medicine like a sport. He has
proven that he can take it throughout his career as one
of America's outstanding athletes, for he is clean, calm
and collective. That is why he was able to make the big
league. Moreover, we believe that is why Mr. Rickey spent
so much time and invested so much money on Jackie, be
cause he, Mr. Rickey, was conscious of the fact that Jackie
possessed intrinsic values and outstanding traits far above
the average person. Jackie not only has wings on his feet;
he can think.
We must remember that in order for Jackie to make
good in the big league that his first obligation is to base
ball his race and himself. The success of Jackie Robinson
in the major leaque will not depend altogether upon how
well he plays the game himself, but how well the colored
fans will play the game with him. When a white umpire
calls Jackie out, let the colored fans take it just as Jackie
would himself.
WHAT IS A MINORITY?
by Ruth Taylor
A hundred years ago a great man wrote "What is a
minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in
a minority. There is not a social, political or religious privi
lege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by
the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority.
It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral
conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the
world."
There are none of us whose fathers have not at some
time been members of a minority, though it may have been
of nationality, or faith, or as in the case of the Pilgrim
Fathers among the Indians, of color. No group was always
rhe majority, whether it be of race, religion o rclass.
And yet, too often we forget our own backgrounds and
turn on the smaller groups, making them suffer in turn.
Whether we do it thoughtlessly or intentionally makes no
diffecence We make others suffer.
Inconsistent humans, yes we admit it. But more than
that, it is impractical, too. Surely during the centuries we!
should have acquired some sense.
What makes a minority? It is smallness in quantity
not smallness in quality. There is nothing permanent about,
a minority. There is nothing permanent in anything that
can grow.
Personally, I think terms like minority and majority
ought to be abolished. In a democracy they just plain are
not fair. Men are not superior or inferior, majority or min
ority, by reason of the accident of birth, by reason of
race, creed, class or color. These are inferior who do not
do their best for the common good, who think of self first.
Those are superior who have the best heart, who can do
their best for all men.
The only true minority is one comprised of men able |
to lead, willing to sacrifice themselves for the responsibili-^
ties of leadership, selfless enough to lead all people to the1
right. This is a minority of honor. Let's stop all this chatter!
about minority groups, and join the minority of those who
follow the Gleam and who stand in the van of progress.
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THE COMMON DEFENSE
WATCH OUT FOR THIS LINE
by Rev. Wm. C. Kernan
Watch our for a Fascist-brand propaganda line which
appears in two parts and runs like this: - first, "Goods
Americans are being smeared as anti-Semitic because they
oppose Communism" and, second, "If you fight anti-Semit
ism you must be a Communist."
Any way these propositions are viewed they add up
to the old trick - so effectively employed by the Nazis -
for arousing prejudice against the Jews by picturing them
falsely as responsible for Communism. Hitler used it,
Goebbels used it - and the Germans got Fascism. Can
some people in this country use it without intending that
we get Fascism too?
Now, the Fascists know, as we all do, that there are
countless good and loyal Americans opposed to Commun
ism who are not called anti-Semitic. President Truman is
opposed to Communism. No one has ever called him anti
Semitic. Secretary of State Marshall is opposed to Com
munism. No one has ever called him anti-Semitic. Arch
bishop Cushing, Bishop Manning and Mr. Bernard Baruch
are opposed to Communism. No one has ever called them
anti-Semitic.
If, as the Fascists argue, people are labeled anti-Se
mitic because they oppose Communism, how can it be that
so many Americans can be anti-Communist but in no way
subject to the charge of anti-Semitism? It is because the
Fascists are wrong. It is because loyal Americans oppose
Communism for the evil it is. They do not use opposition
to Communism as an excuse for attacking the Jews on
trumped-up charges.
On the other hand, there are people in this country
who say they are opposed to Communism and who properly
are called anti-Semitic. They are labelled anti-Semitic
not because they are supposed to be against Communism
but because they spread propaganda in this country de
signed for arousing prejudice against Americans of Jewish
origin. These are the facts in the case.
To fight Communisb is the duty of every loyal Ameri
can. But - to use opposition to Communism, as Hitler did,
as an excuse for propagating anti-Semitism and Fascism is
pespicable, inexcusable, and un-American. Loyal Ameri
cans will fight that too!
GRIM REAPER CLAIMS TWO
JACKSONVILLE LEADERS
Jacksonville, Fla. (Global) Two
of Jacksonville’s leaders, living
within a block of each other, were
claimed by the Grim Reaper the
same day.
One was the celebrated Negro
physician, Dr. Charles Frederick
Duncan. A prominent churchman,
civic worker and outstanding mem
ber of thePhi Beta Sigma Frater
nity. he had practiced medicine
nearly forty years' after his grad
uation from the Boston College
of Physicians and Surgeons.
The other, John Simms, had
distinguished himself as a printer,
teacher, athletic promoter, coach
and business manager.
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Fla. Negroes are swelling the
ranks of those who are opposed
to the caudicy of one negro, Wil
son Armstron, who mysteriously
got himself qualified to become a
candidate for the office of city
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ward.
As this act serves 10 strengthen
Senator Matthew’s plans for a
white primary, all intellegent Ne
groes are organizing to defeat
Armstrong at the polls if they
fail in their efforts to retire from
I the race.
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