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Between The Lines ..
TESTING NEGRO LEADERSHIP
Our current crop of white
Southern leaders never tires tel
ling the story of what fine race
relations obtained in the South
before the NAACP era. They
picture an ideal and idyllic state
of-being in the South, where both
Whites and Negroes were ever at
peace, and where there was a
race relational calm and tranqui
lity akin to that of Grand Pre of
which Longfellow wrote genera
tions ago. But these Southern
leaders never stop to point out
what a price the Negro was paying
for those imagined fine race re
lations.
As lon# as the Negro did not
press for his rights of suffrage and
feigned an indifference to his
voting privilege; as long as he did
not seek jury duty, as long as he
seemed satisfied to let the Whites
run the government after the
White primary style; as long as
the Negro was willingg to accept
the “seperate but unequal” doc
trine in the matters of education,
he was a jolly good fellow. But
once the Negro- press for jury
duty and for a place in the erst
while White primary and once he
pressed for a “seperate tout equal”
principle in education, trouble be
gan to brew.
It can be safely said that our
current trouble dates back to the
time when Negroes really began
to press for equal as well as
seperate conditions of education.
In other words as long as the
Negro accepted without protest
a condition of the White man’s
domination and his own subjuga
tion, all was apparently well in
the South-as long as the status
quo obtained. What has recently
been transpiring in the South has
been the Negro’s attempt to
break 1 away from the status quo
in search of another status on a
higher level.
Today, we find the Old South
up in arms to resist the Negro’s
effort to gain a high status and as
Senator Byrd proposes there will
be no Negro advance because if
there is a “massive resistance,”
the Supreme Court’s decision is
not going to become effective. The
Negroes are resolved to advance
and the Old South is resolved that
“they shall not pass’ and so the
struggle is on! The brutal fact
remains that race relations in the
South are terribly strained and
the state tension has dangerous
implications for both the White
and Negro South.
It is to be questioned which is
the more dangerous, a tranquil
Old South with the Negro com
pletly subjugated or an Old South
in stress and strained with the
Negro slowly but surely being
liberated. In other words there is
something worst than a tense Old
South with its Negroes striving
to become first rate citizens; it is
an Old South complacent with
millions of Negro half-citizens.
Negro leadership has a strategic
role in the current crisis.
In his struggle for full citizen
ship, the Negro has attained the
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and rancor currently tearing at
the vitals of the South are matters
of politics and very few of the
Negrophotoes’ ailments capnot be
cured at the ballot box. It is true
that for the most part the South’s
rural Negroes are voteless; but
more and more the South, like the
nation is becoming urban and can
become ipowerful balances of
power if rightly led by Negroes
who care more about the welfare
of Negroes than they care about
newspaper headlines and popu
larity in general.
There was never a time when
selfessness among Negro leaders
would pay greater dividends. For
instance, we have a potential vote
here in Virginia of over 100,000
which is used as a balance of
power vote could influence any
election. If Negroes could muster
a hundred thousand votes Senator
Byrd would never dare to enunci
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Deil to the South in an attempt to
circumvent the Supreme Court’s
decision.
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utilized their limited votes as
balance of power weatpons, it
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SAGA OF
HARLEM PARISH
A PLACE OF ADVENTURE, by
John H. Johnson. The Seabury
Press, 1955. 144 pages. $2.25
This story of the more than
four thousand church members
ond various other souls who have
been influenced by St. Martin’s
Church in the Harlem section of
New York City is a saga well
worth the reading for anyone in
terested in dynamic Christianity.
The Rev. Dr. John H. Johnson
has rendered a great service in
the writing of “A Place of Ad
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church can nurture Christian life
in its community, regardless of
the problems that community may
be facing.
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complex area of this country’s
most complex city. His con
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terested spectators and as seen
by participants in its life throws
new light on the situation.
Dr. Johnson’s brief sermons,
which form a large portion of his
book, are typical of the direct,
simple manner in which he ap
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to complex and difficult problems.
Another section of the book con
tains numerous samples of let
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from residents of Harlem. The
warmth of these letters is in
dicative of the parishoners’ re
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pathetic understanding, inspira
tion, and ability to help them
know more of the ways of God
and man.
Major events in the life of St.
Martin’s are dramatically re
corded—the visits of the Queen
Mother of England, and the
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from Holland; the two great fires
that destroyed the edifice, and the
phoenix-like rise of a renewed
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Dr. Johnson, in a kindly vein,
has analyzed the Harlem'' com
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places where St. Martin’s Church
could do a fine work for God and
for His children who re clustered
there. He has brought all the
teaching, tradition, liturgy, music,
architecture, and inspiration of
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modern problem in a complex
situation. The book is indeed well
named—“A Place of Adventure.”
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