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St. Paul RECORDER, Friday, October 31, 1952
NEGROES HAVE GROWN UP POLITICALLY
The propaganda of the Republican press, radio and tele
vision is insulting to the intelligence of the Negroes of the
United States and of Minnesota. The Republicans cannot
fool us by bombarding us with their out-dated headlines.
We won t be deceived by their flooding us in October
with positions taken and statements made in July, positions
and statements which have since changed. If the Republi
cans don t know it, we know that Congressman Adam Clay
ton Powell, Jr. is campaigning the length and breadth of this
land in behalf of that fearless champion of civil rights, Adlai
E. Stevenson.
If the Republicans don't know it, we know that the New
York Amsterdam News, long time staunch Republican news
paper is now supporting the candidacy of Adlai Stevenson
and John Sparkman.
If the Republican high command isn't aware that the
statement made by Walter White in July after Sparkman's
nomination is not the official position of NAACP, we know
that it isn't.
In a resolution passed by the national board of the
NAACP stated in part THIS about the candidacy of the men
seeking the Presidency:
"The most forthright position taken by any of the
presidential candidates of the two major parties has
been that of ADLAI E. STEVENSON who has made clear
his support of efforts to abolish filibuster through
amendment of senate rule No. 22, his support for FEPC
with enforcement provisions, and other necessary steps
to abolish racial and religious discrimination. We com
mend the clarity and courage of his pronouncements."
Let us make it crystal clear that as American Negroes,
we view civil rights and human rights to be vital issues of
paramount importance in this campaign, but they are not
the only issues. We likewise recognize that our fortunes and
best interests are interwoven with a healthy economy, a
prosperous nation and a world at peace. The Democratic
party by its platform, by its record during the past twenty
years and by the unassailable character of its standard
bearer, Adlai E. Stevenson warrants our enthusiastic sup
port.
We believe that the platform, that the record and their
EDWARD L. BOYD
Minneapolis
L. HOWARD BENNETT
Minneapolis
GEORGE W. BROOKS, JR.
St. Paul
DR. W. D. BROWN
Minneapolis
REV. DENZIL A. CARTY
St. Paul
ANTHONY B. CASSIUS
Minneapolis
WILLIAM E. CRATIC
Minneapolis
CURTIS C. CHIVERS
Minneapolis
WITH
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
candidates are best for America and therefore best for
America's 16 million Negroes.
LET THE REPUBLICANS KNOW THESE POLITICAL
FACTS OF LIFE:
Negroes of America are AMERICANS, and they vote as
Americans, not as Negroes. They've been voting Demo
cratic since 1936 for precisely the same reasons that white
Americans have been voting Democratic. They believe the
Democratic party's program, both domestic and foreign is
best for the United States. And they will not be frightened
into voting for the Republican party by the blatantly racist
appeals that the Republican party has been making in re
cent weeks.
They know the Democratic party in Alabama and else
where in the south has steadfastly opposed civil rights legis
lation. The Republican party seems to have just discovered
the fact, for campaign purposes, they've known it since the
Civil War. Furthermore, THEY ARE CONSTANTLY DOING
SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Negroes also know this: In the past twenty years, under
Democratic administrations, Negroes, along with ALL
OTHER AMERICANS, have made tremendous strides, eco
nomically, politically, socially and in the field of education.
Like all other Americans, Negroes no longer are haunted
by the spectre of unemployment and hunger. They have
jobs now. They didn't have them under the last Republican
administration. Remember?
And like Americans generally, they're drawing good
wages. Minimum wage laws and the growth of the labor
unions have benefited them, just as they have benefited the
rest of the nation. The Republican party fought the minimum
wage laws and sought to cripple labor unions. And that's
something Negroes are not going to forget.
The Negro farmer, like all farmers, has made tremendous
progress, too. The AAA, rural electrification, price supports,
soil conservation and similiar measures are responsible for
this. They're all measures which the Republican party either
fought or attempted to emasculate. And Negroes REALIZE
THIS just as other Americans do.
Negroes have profited, just as the rest of the nation has
PROFITED, from social security as well as from unemploy-
That's why Negroes are not being frightened by Repub
lican racist appeals. That's why Negroes, like Americans
generally will vote for Adlai E. Stevenson and John Spark
man and like Minnesotans generally will vote for CARLSON,
FREEMAN, ROLVAAG, WIER, and McCARTHY.
As Americans, Negroes want what is best for America
and as Minnesotans, what is best for Minnesotans.
JOHN M. CULVER
St. Paul
HARRY DAVIS
Minneapolis
LOUIS H. ERVIN
St. Paul
A. J. EVANS
Minneapolis
WALTER N. GOINS, JR.
St. Paul
MRS. OSCAR GATES
Minneapolis
SHELTON B. GRANGER
Minneapolis
MRS. ALLIE MAE HAMPTON
St. Paul
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ment insurance. Negro children have benefited, just like
white children, from the school lunch program.
More and more Negroes own their homes because of
HOLC and FHA. More and more Negroes are moving from
the slums into modern apartments because of the federal
housing program. Negroes KNOW who sponsored the fed
eral housing program—and who opposed it.
Let's be fronk about if: Progress has been slower than
we'd like but the fact STILL REMAINS that educational op
portunities for Negroes are expanding constantly, and in
the south, as elsewhere; that segregation in the schools is
BREAKING DOWN; that segregation is being ELIMINATED
in the armed forces; that Negroes everywhere are winning
the right to vote. All this has been happening under Demo
cratic administrations and IN SPITE of Republican-Dixiecrat
opposition. We also know, that the Republican candidate,
General Eisenhower, is the candidate of the Republican-
Dixiecrat coalition: Byrd, Byrnes, Shivers, McCarthy, Kern,
Jenner, and THYE.
The Republican party hierarchy seems to hove CON
VENIENTLY FORGOTTEN that Sen. John Sparkman was one
of the authors of the Democratic platform at the last na
tional convention. And that he has repeated time and time
again that he will support ALL of the Democratic party's
platform. Not only BEFORE the election, but AFTER the
election as well.
Negroes are Americans. Like all other Americans, when
Pearl Harbor came, they went into the armed forces and
fought and died. They're fighting and dying in Korea right
now. They will fight and die any time their country calls upon
them.
For that reason, like all Americans, Negroes are con
cerned about foreign policy. And when they look at the
Republican party's foreign policy, what do they see? They
see a party controlled by a group of know-nothing isolation
ists, a party which stubornly fought collective security be
fore Pearl Harbor and which is attempting to sabotage it
again, a party which puts a price tag on national defense,
because it worries more about taxes than it does about de
fense. That's not true of all the elements in Republican
party, but it's true of the dominant element, the element
headed by Sen. Robert A. Taft.
LONNIE LEVERETT
Minneapolis
CHARLES W. McCOY
Minneapolis
MRS. DeVELMA NEWMAN
Minneapolis
CHESTER W. ODEN, SR.
St Paul
MRS. BEULAH PETERS
Minneapolis
MRS. CARL T. ROWAN
Minneapolis
MISS LENA O. SMITH
Minneapolis
HARRY L. SCOTT
Minneapolis
MRS. OPAL STONE
Minneapolis
HECTOR VASSAR
St. Paul
CLYDE WILLIAMS
Minneapolis
MRS. GLORIA O. WILKERSON
Minneapolis
W. B. WALKER
St Paul
THEODORE E. WOODARD
Minneapolis
W. WILLAMS
St. Paul