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NATIONAL INTERESTS
One of our critics from the other group, who
has been aroused by the militant protest of the Negro
people against the Red Cross blood ban and the
“theft” of the Sojourner Truth Homes, has taken
us to task for “obstructing the national interest” by j
demanding that the rights of the Negro people be
respected even in the face of a world emergency.
There are many people of the other group who be
lieve that the “special interests” of the Negro peo
ple are in opposition sonfehow to what is called the
national interest. We have had occasion to expose
this fallacious thinking before and now we find we
must do it again.
In the first place, almost every fight against
racial discrimination by the Negro people since the
war began has had as its ultimate objective the hope
that In crushing this discrimination we might better
serve our country. We have to fight to contribute
our skill to the manufacture of bombs and bombers
to be used against the enemy, we have had to fight
to give our blood for those who might die for lack
of it, we have to fight to get in all branches of the
fighting forces, and we are fighting to house our j
war workers decently and safely in order that they
may more efficiently serve their country.
What is more important still, we are an integral j
part of America and we are rightfully being called
upon to live up to all the responsibilities of American
citizenship in this war. We are part and parcel of j
the national interest itself. The contribution of I
thirteen million black souls to the war effort cannot j
and will not be ignored today when the nation is '
imperiled. In granting the Negro people full in-1
tegration and participation in the war effort, the
nation w'llt of necessity be strengthened. What isj
called our “special interest” is in reality for the
best interest of the entire nation.
By way of illustration, Negroes in the state of
Georgia must be educated on the pittance appro
priated for Negro education, which of course results 1
in a high degree of illiteracy. Army officials w'ere
forced to refuse thousands of Negro draftees in j
Georgia because the ability to read and write is nec
essary in modern warfare. The nation itself suffers
from this discrimination as well as the Negroes. On
the other hand, bad housing for Negroes in many
large cities has forced the municipal governments
to spend millions of tax dollars for police, fire
fighting and health services which would not be
necessary if the Negroes were properly housed or
permitted to expand normally. The money spent
in correcting the abuses of the housing situation
would more than pay for better housing in the first
place. In terms of tax-money, racial prejudice not
only becomes an expensive luxury to the govern
ment, but it destroys at the same time the hope of
real national unity which is important in time of
peace and absolutely necessary in time of war.
From still another side, discriminations against
the Negro threaten the most basic principles of
democracy itself. We are a nation of minorities,
some large, some small. When one group is victim
ized unjustly, the pattern has been created for the
eventual subjugation of all others. Minority rights
are important to the functioning of a democracy, as
important as the principle of majority rule. Thus
the discrimination against the Negro people threat
ens the nation, and those who seek to perpetrate in
justice against the Race are in reality guilty of
“high treason.” In fighting for our rights we Ne
groes are protecting the national interests, and we 1
are going to continue to fight, come hell or high j
Water.
UNITY AND VICTORY
We are encouraged by the mass response of the 5
entire community to the flagrant discriminatory j
practices against our people in this crucial period.
It has been officially announced that the American
Red Cross has changed its policy regarding the
blood bank, and now Negro donors are welcomed
to contribute their blood for the victims of this war.
Whatever other forces may have been operative, the
fact that the entire Negro community as well asi
many liberal people of other groups were united in
their condemnation and protest became a matter
of great importance and led to this victory. The
rescinding of this un-American order barring Negro
blood donors is a victory of the people.
The masses of us, who have been inarticulate
and silent in the past, are coming to a realization
that our leadership is weak and impotent unless the
entire community supports the fight for racial ad-
Editorial Page of THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE
I COVER
THE TOWN
By JOHN WOOD;
THE INSIDE STORY: After all
the shoutin' is ovei and the govern- [
I housing commission) decides to I
provide housing for colored defense j
j workers a lot of people are going
'to be disappointed. Unlike the
j Handling of Brewster, this new pro- |
I ject will house those /or whom* it |
' .. as built and not those who have i
' tne pull" in the right place that
i enable* tnem jo acquire housing
' ahead of those who most need loar
; cost housing.
Typical of the many complaints
about the handling <or misnandlingi !
of the Brewster Heines, is the story
• of a woman with whom I talked
last week. Said she: 1 wa* under
j the impression that the Brewster j
project was built for people in the
j lower income bracket until I tried
■ to get a place in the project. I made
I application in September. 1940; I
I v. as given a white card and told
to report at some other place; I
was never even told whether or
not I was on the waiting list. But
since then I know of DSR employ
ees, Ford workers, mail carriers,
business people and others who
have moved into the project SINCE
I made application for a home.
My husband earns a small salary
and he can’t get Into the project;
yet those other people who have
good incomes and can afford to
pay the landlord are favored with
a home in a project supposed to
have been built for those who can j
not afford high rents."
NOTE: The waiting list for oc- I
cupancy In the Brewster project !
is somewhere around 8 000, mostly
people who SHOULD occupy the j
project. And the lady is absolutely j
right, about the favoritism shown '
in renting homes in the project !
That is why the authorities aie j
going to tighten down on applica
tions so the deserving people will
be taken care of first.
What Will Happen To The Negro
IF HITLER WINS?
By CHANDLER OWEN
PART SIX
SUPPLEMENT
| Shortly after the completion of
i the body of the article: "What Will
I Happen to the Negro, if Hitler
Wins" the Nazi program for Jews
,n Slovakia .was announced on
! There is one thing upon which
Negroes agree unanimously, name
i ly. that the Jew because of both
, his color and hi* alleged financial
strength, is better treated at any
. given p ace than the Negro at that
I particular place. So, as Edmund
Burke once said. "What no man
disputes I need not prove"—«e may
proceed from *the known and “the
agreed-upon" to the problematical
and the moot. I shall therefore
list the Nazi restrictions against
Jews one by one, commenting on
each in its order.
I. Marriage Is forbidden be
tween half, three-quarters or fnll
blood and non-Jews or quarter
Jews.
If marriages were prohibited be
tween quarter Negroes and other
Negroes, then about one-fourth of
the Negroes would be prohibited
from marrying among hte remain
ing three-fourths, and vice versa.
That's out in all parts of the U.S.A.
t. All official positions are
| closed to Jews, and likewise the
general practice of medicine,
pharmacy, law and veterinary
surgery.
There ts no southern state or
county in the United State* which
would countenance this code today.
And the writer >s not uninformed
about the Black Code and Vagrancy
laws during Reconstruction whicn
denied the Negro the right to work
at certain trades. This law, applied
to Negroes, would throw on the
scrap heap all Negro physicians,
dentivts. pharmacists, lawyers and
even doctors.
S. On railroad trains they
Mews) can travel only in third
class coaches and cannot use
cither sleepers or dining cars.
er»s, field glasses, firearms or
fishing licenses.
In about one-third the states of
America it is practically true that J
Negroes cannot use sleepeTs or j
dining cars and can travel only .
second class. Still they can travel
first class in two-third* of the mo«t |
populous, wealthy and advanced
states And the Supreme Court of
the United States has recently de- i
Arthur Mitchell's rase, that as intrr- •
state passengers Negroes must be
provided with equal sleeping and
dining car'accommodations. i
While nearly everybody, not
hunting, performing police or mili- ‘
tary duties, might desirably be de- !
prived of firearms, I cannot con- ;
ceive of any state or community
objecting to Negroes having radios,
cameras, field glasses or fishing
4. No Jew U permitted to drive
an automobile, motor-truck, or
motorcycle.
I have heard of poor whites being
jealous of Negroes driving fine
automobiles, but I don’t believe any
member of a southern legislature or
city council could introduce a bill
to prevent Negroes driving motor
cars, trucks, or motorcycles with
out being laughed out of town.
5. Except by inheritance, Jews
cannot acquire new property of
any kind. For houses of business 1
now owned by Jews the govern
ment ran appoint administrative
This could be done to
on'y if the business were in receiiß
ership. Which would be the samfP
for whites too.
S. Jews who have acquired
bonded property in the past
through forced sale* must return
this property to the original own
er against a refund of the sum !
paid for it.
In America no difference in the '
treatment of a Negro and a white !
person would be adopted because
the Negro had bought property at
a forced sa^e.
7. [The state further can liqui
date at will or transfer any Jew
ish business to an Aryan person
or corporation. To date almost
8.000 Jewish enterprises have been
liquidated.
1 don't think any one will argue
will never know—for she is blind.
THINGS I NEVER KNEW 'TIL
NOW: That soft drinks are being
rationed out to restaurants. . . .
That there is a sort of enmity be
tween the people of the West side
and those on the East side, each
claiming that he is a little bit j
superior to the other . . . That
George Meadows claims Colorado
ns his home but the people from
Arkansas say that ain't the way
they heard it. . . . That the DSR
is still short of bus drivers and j
IS IT TRUE DEPARTMENT: John
. Doe claims he took his wife to a
hospital and before she was given
I treatment the hospital attaches de
i manded that, he bring his wife's
I life insurance policy to hospital.
I They looked it over and asked John
| Doe to make the HOSPITAL
! BENEFICIARY In the event of
I death. Doe asked for a little lime
to-think the matter over; consulted
his pharmacist; and returned to the
I Hospital. Instead of changing the
I policy he changed hospitals. John
| Doe said he didn't mind being taken
[ for a ".square" but he thought his
wife had a small chance of recov
| ering when the doctors started
figuring on her insurance money
even before they treated her. Are
hospitals REALLY that way?
j CRAZY IDEA DEPARTMENT:
Every weekday at noon you will
! find these people having lunch at
Barth well's Benton street store:
I two or three clerical workers, a
j pharmacist, a newspaperman, an
architect, a sales girl and an assort
ment of truck drivers, barbers, etc.
1 One of these coustomers who for
merly lunched at Barthwell's Hol
brook store advanced the opinion
j that the girls at that store could
do a better job on chewing gum
than the girls at the Benton .>,ieet
store, but there' was a difference
in opinion afteT much argument.
So in a few days the whole gang
is going out to the Holbrook store
just to see if the girls there can
out-chew the girls at the other
.btore. A nutty idea if ever there
CALLING LEROY WHITE: Your
blast at the leaders is the talk of
the town, but you must remember
there are two ways to talk about
a thing. ARTHUR REED: When the
Navy department issued the state
ment that that branch of the serv
ice had never put a ban on Negro
biood plasma it meant the N.A.A.
C.P. had chalked lip another vic
tory. for it was the N.A.A.C.P. that
forced the statement from the Navy
department. All of which proves
that your assertion that the N.A.A.
C P. never does anything should be
taken with the proverbial grain
of salt. . . . MR. and MRS l*vi
McDowell: Your invitation has been
accepted. . . . W. C. COOKE: Just
v-here does the Crusaders Organiza
tion stand in this housing fight?
Or is it too big? . . . REV. and
MRS. PITTMAN: Isn't it nice to
know your son. Randle, who was
recently inducted into the army,
will be missed by so many people?
SHORT STORY: The man sitting
across the isle on a crosstown car
began to flirt with the lady but
| she paid him no mind, all the time
she was looking straight into his
I eyes without seeming to see him.
He continued to make signs and
wnen the car stopped at Woodward
he saw a vacant .seat beside ner
1 but she got up. He made one >ast
' effort to attract her attention as
' she got up but she still ignored
: him. and walked right into him.
I As she left the car she pulled out
a white cane she had concealed
j under her coat and began to make
j her way across the street The guy
i probably thinks he i* a flop as a
vaneement and for the preservation of democracy.
The factory worker, the domestic worker as well as
the professional worker in our group are joining
hands in the fight for freedom at home and abroad.
The Red Cross fight brought together the humble
and the proud, for it was clear that without this
united front, we could not hope to remove, this libel
upon the race. 4
Let us all become vigilant and maintain this
; brotherhood and unite against Hitlerism in Detroit
and in Berlin. Our racial progress must in the end
! be measured in terms of the advancement of all the
| people and not of the gifted few. The militant spirit
exhibited by the entire community i% full of promise
| for the future and the fascist forces in America will
I hesitate before they make designs upon a united and
! militant minority, the true guardians of democracy.
| in America and Britain might ex
pect under the fuehrer.
I once had a professor at Coium-
I bia university who told the class:
|"Whenever you feel blue, you may
| want to go to beautiful California.
I to wander in fair Elysian fields, to
i enjoy the perfect abandon of
! romance, to have great wealth. This
I is a mistake. Instefcd. when you
are blue, go to the cancer sani-
I tariums. to the Municipal'tubercu
losis institute, to the home for the
bl.nd, to the prisons and the asy
lums. When jfbu come out. you will
appreciate what a blessing it is to
have simple health of body and
mind, to possess both the physical
ability to move and the liberty to
This is too true. And the moral?
I*et American Negroes simply com
pare themselves with the German
Jews under Hitler. And even the
Negroes should, will and must con
tinue to fight British and Ameri-
I can race prejudice, at the same time,
a* between Nazi persecution and
British - American discrimination,
the choice of American and Britain
is so clearly the correct course that
exception could be taken only by
an error-laden Negro mind.
It is difficult to see how Hitler
could treat Negroes much worse
than he does the Jews, but to treat
Negroes as badly as he is now
treating the Jews would be to hark
back many hundreds of years. The
only possible danger is that a close
study of Hitler's attitude toward
the Jews may almost cause Negroes
to think that in America they have
reached the millenium, which God
forbid!
As the two most oppressed and
persecuted minorities, the Jews and
Negroes have much more in com
mon than they have in opposition,
alliances are advantageous. Both
groups will learn this through hard
experience on the rockier roads
which they may have to travel lor
Emm
r^m
I '
CHANDLER OWEN
that this treatment is a threat to
Negroes even in the worst parts
of the South. ■
8. Jews can be expelled from
the whole or any part of any
village, town or city and segre
gated in other centers or special
sections thereof. In principle all
communities with fewer than 5.000
inhabitants will be purged first.
Jewish rodents in largrr centers
must vacate their dwellings in
certain specified districts soon.
can Negroes segregated in centers
towns. It is common to find sections
in most cit.es where Negroes can
not rent or buy property. Never
theless. it would be most unusual,
if ever, to discover a city, state,
or town which would or could
expel Negroes from property,
whether they owned or rented 't,
j on grounds of race aione.
I 9. AH clubs or associations of
i Jews are outlawed: the only
organization l- which they may
belong is the Jew Central in
Bratislava. They can neither con
duct nor participate in any public
meeting, nor can any product of
a Jewish writer he published any
where in Slovakia.
During the Reconstruction. Im
mediately after the Civil war, under
the Black Code and Vagrancy laws,
the assembling of three Negroes
was a crime in South Carolina.
Mississippi and a few other south
ern states. Today Negroes have al]
sorts of fraternal, labor, social and
moribund Ku Klux Klan in the
worst southern states, but, on the
whole. Negro organizations are com
paratively free in al! states. They
| hold thousands of public meetings
i every week. They publish over 200
1 newspapers, a score of magazines
and Negro authors write oodles of
books - the best seller in America
for 1941 having been "Native Son."
a bitter book written by a Chicago
Negro and purchased extensively
by American whites. In fact it was
white purchases which made the
10. Warship hv Jews is per
mitted, but only in buildings
way reveals of the
building.
Every section of America is per
fectly willing for Negroes to wor
ship as they please, and they do
I so in churches valued at more than
$200,000,000. To prohibit worship in
buildings which reveal the nature
of the building would, by that very
[fact, abolish all Negro churches, ex
cept the most backward store-front
[types to be found in the cities of
I the United States.
11. Educational facilities (for
Jews) have been reduced to a
grade school standard and a few
special classes. Jews must attend
In about 16 states Negroes in the
The Facts In Our News
B V HORACE A. WHITE
LET'S KEEP THE
RECORD STRAIGHT
In June, the federal government :
asked the Detroit Housing com
i mission to act as its agent for the j
I construction of 700 defense dwell- ,
[ ings. These units were to be for i
: defense workers. The Detroit Hous- j
mg commission at that time brought :
' in a site known as the Modern and
| Dequindre site, which the housing '
commission unanimously accepted
( for 200 dwelling units for Negro 1
| occupancy as directed by the fed- ,
I oral government. The federal agent '
i came out and decided that the |
| Negro project should be at Fenelon
j At this time there arose a great
deal of opposition from many
sources. Also at that time, I. Horace
White, the Negro on the commission
brought in the idea that the pro
ject should be placed at West Eight
Mile Road, which raised a lot of
opposition from large real estate
holdings in the city of Detroit. The
result was that the idea was
dropped by the commission without
any formal action. Then the com
mission acceded to the Fenelon
and Nevada site. The commission
had nothing to do with the selec
tion of sites, but was simply acting
as an agent for the federal govern-
A large protest citizen's committee
was formed under the leadership
of one Joe Buffa. who is a real
estate operator and builder. He was
definitely against Negro occupancy
of the project because he said that
the property value would imme
diately go down and that the FHA
would not make more loans to home
owners in that section.
■it must be borne in mind that
■ ;s site where the Sojourner Truth
was built was zoned for
manufacturing by the city j
boaid. At this time the j
■\vkin (\ihgree.-irmal committer
■as scheduled to come from Wa*h- j
to listen to protests about
■e Sojourner Truth Homes. That !
■mm it tee came. The protests wore
■any ayj.n-t Negro occupancy The,
committee is made up of
■utherners w ho rnu.d not see truth '
logic of Negroes living in a;
neighborhood.
Rudolph Tenerowicz wr.s op
from the beginning to ;he
being placed at Kind, u and
Me goi w ith members of |
■ committee and made a deal w ith :
■em ar-'.i.d the $200,000,000 de- :
h (living appropriation to
■auge it from Negro to white In
me., nt mie. however. «e re-
an order from Washington
■ mi! that we simii’d proceed with
■k l ” occupancy. The man who
that order is named Clark
■rman He was fired for issuing
order and within three hours
the order was is-ued we re-
allot, icr order saying do
■ t put Negroes in toe project Ti:..s
B'r was from a man named Baird
■ydcr. who is Federal Works !
th s. however I had made
■ trip to Washington to try to
■nvirce (.'oiigiessin.m T.-nerowh/
his efforts to have the project
were undemocratic and
bv downright race prej-
and unwillingness to see tiie
of the Negro people ;n h«
■strict Al that time he led and
and hawed to a d.sgusting
Me said he was not against
project when I had definite
from the Defense Co
■dination off.re that i.e was push
■ A few weeks after that I was
Billed to Washington with Mr.
■dgecomb. promt secretary of ;he
Bousing commission to d.scuss the
■langc I put up as big a protest
■gainst any change as 1 could pul
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1942
CONANT GARDENS
MRS. LELA HENDRICKS
igradua.e of Fisk university and a
' renown*! musician!
THE GEORGETTES:
| The newly organized savings
club of young matrons are the Geor-
I genes. There are six members and
aie sponsoring their first party on
j Valentine even ng. February 14. at
•ie ho ne of Mrs. Essie Binins on
Garfield. Mrs. Ethel Billingslea of
I Gallagher street is president and
Mrs. .Alba Ptillan. secretary.
THE EUREKA GARDEN
ART AND SOCIAL CLUB
Mrs. Arnette Coleman of Kendall
•was charming hostess for the Eure
ka Garden. Art and Study club last
Monday evening After the business
[.session, during which the members
iitched away on lovely art work.
Mrs. Crleman conducted a written
[ quiz contest. Mrs. Mary Brown made
1 highest score and won the prize
A discuss, jn of the American Red
[Cross and its policies followed and
, just what the attitudes of the Negro
[should be toward same. A delecla
! »le luncheon followed. Mrs. Nellie
iß..rden was a visitor of the club.
To climax all this serious thinking
• as played that produces much hi-
Enjoying Mrs. Coleman's hospital
ity wer- Mesdames Mary Brown,
Sadie Toles, Corine McClain. Hazel
Patterson, Jessie Daniel. Blanch
Cassey. Nellie Burden and Vera
Sadler Mrs. J. Daniel is next hos-
DERRICOTTE HOMEMAKERS
CLUB:
i Mrs. Ald:ne Mathis of Binder
street was hostess to the Home
[week. Mrs.’Perry Parks, president.
j Plans were completed for the
! bake sale to be held at Vernon
Chapel church Saturday, January
31. Mesdames Charles Hodge. Perry
Parks, Charles Haskins, Theresa
Rob.nson and •'Qrujfe Booth repre
sented the club at the annual meet
ing of the Lucy Thurman YWCA,
last Thursday evening. Mrs. Ellen
Stallings was welcomed as anew
member rs the club. Mrs. Lena Rid-
The program chairman. Mrs. Mil
ton Hopkins, presented Mrs. Mathis,
courtesy committee chairman, wno
had charge of the afternoon pro
gram. Mrs. Mathis introduced Mrs.
Meta Riceman of the Civilian Pub
lic service committee. Her subject,
"International Affairs.” was quad
interesting and informative.
The Community House committee
will meet Tuesday, February 2 with
Mrs. Parks on Revere street. The
next meeting of the club will be
with Mrs. Joe Nance on Wexford
WcdnestligL February . 4th,. There
will be a debate between the Pre
miers aid Derricottes; subject. “Re
solved that Religious Education
Should Be Taught in the Public
Schools."
CONANT GARDENS
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION:
The executive boaid of the Conant
Garbers Community association
met in session Thursday evening «t
the hon«* of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Cofer on Norwood street. Mr. Cofer,
president of the group, presided.
Mr. T. Jones, former member of
the Pioneer club, that last year
wished to establish a beer tavern
on Conant, was present. Mr. Jones
stated that the Pioneer club had
disband>d and since he had bought
the property on Conant. desired the
association to sanction the establish
ment of a barbecue and beer tavern
The association went on record as
supporting Mr. Jones in any en
terprise ha might select excepting
the selling of liquors, which the
organization felt was detrimental
to the youth of the community.
The association sent six telegrams
to Washington, D. C., in interest of
retaining the Sojourner Truth
homes. Mr. Cofer told of the Citi
zens’ committee meeting with the
housing commission in the Wa:er
Board building and the subsequent
non-cooperation of the commission
in giving their moral support to the
Present at the executive board
were Mr. C A. Kemp, Charles Tuc
ker. D W Norris. Percy Jones. Miss
Donna Kemp. Mrs Mack Grant and
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Hendricks.
SEEN \T THE
"V SUNDAY FORUM
Enjoying George Schuyler* ad
dress on “Propaganda" from the
'Gardens and North End were: Mr
and Mrs. Mack Grant, Mr. Do«h
I Dean. Ally, and Mrs. Charles Berry.
Mrs. Lexanna Moseley. Mr. and Mrs
Baxter Watts, Dr. F. E. Dawson. Mr
and Mrs W. D. Morris. Mrs. Maud
I Turner. Mrs. Bertha Wilkins. Mrs
| Lee Edwards. Mrs. Vivian B. Nash.
1 Mrs. Walter Smith. Mrs. Edna Parks,
I Mrs. Mayme Snead. Mr. and Mrs
William Summers, Mrs. Ka ,e
I Cneatham. and many other*.
I , •
Singers Hold
A Successful
Convention
The Michigan and Canadian Gos
| pel Singer* annual convention con
vened at New Salem Baptist church
•January 12-18. Rev. C H Waiker.
| host. Mrs. Arteiis W. Hutchins.
| founder and president, presided.
j the state, choirs, choruse*. quartets
and singers, also from Canada came
to make the convention the greatest
in its history.
J Session* were held daily and eve
. ning* when discussions regarding
| gospel singing were held.
Drs. 7. E. McGee. C H. Walker
I and Arthur W. Womack of Mem
| phis, Tei.n., were the inspirational
1 messengers and inspired the con
vention each day. with their ser
i mons and addresses.
RECOMPENSE
There are loyal heart*, there are
spirits brave.
There are souls that are tried and
: Then give to the world the best
that yna have
And the best will come back to
! y»u-"
NEGRO HISTORY WEEK:
I The public is urged to hear Dr
I Mercer Cook, head of the Fren-h
department of Atlanta university
I on Suncoy, February 8. at 3 p m., al
Tabernacle Baptist churcb. Beecn
wood at Milford avenue. This fine,
•.he Negro History week speaker of,
j the Detroit chapter. Association for .
j the Study of Negro Life and His- 1
| lory, and his subject will be "Some
| Contribution* of the Negro to Latin j
America."
| Dr. Cook has published two '
French textbooks. "I* Noir Por- ;
I editor of the "Journal of Negro Hi**!
ItOry’* and "The Phylon.’ He con
tributes to the Crisis, New Republic, l
; Opportunity and Afro-American. I
I His travels have been in France and
:he West Indies. He has attended |
I the University of Paris, received his
AB. from Amherst college. AM.
j from Brown university and his
j Ph D. from Brown also.
1 The Tabernacle "Committee of
! Twelve" are co-spm»tk>rs of this ed
ucational program. The Queens pf
' Harmony Sextette of Highland Park
[high school will furnish music. Mrs.
Sylvia M. Tucker of Norwood street
j is Michigan state chairman of the :
I Detroit chapter, Association for *he .
j Study of Negro Life and History, j
A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR:
j Friday afternoon atothe Alt De-
I sense program of the Detroit As-I
sociation of Clubs, it was our pleas-,
lure to meet Mrs. J. W. Brown of
. New York City, who is a guest of j
Mrs. Haley Bell.
| Mrs. Brown is the widow of Bish
op .1 W. Brown, of the AME church,
j who served as pastor of Mother
| Zion church in New York, when he
j was elected to the bishopric. They
| served .n West Africa at Cape Coast
j on the 'Jold Coast. Mrs. Brown is a
I up. After this conference Mr.
' Palmer and Mr. Snyder went up-
I stairs and decided on the change
and they supposedly did it on the
! basis that earlier the housing com
j mission had selected another site,
i BuT'mind you, - the - housing com
-1 mission all along had been planning
j for Negro occupancy. I named the
project the Soujourner Truth Homes
1 as a way of recognizing the strug-
I gles carried on by Sojourner Truth
. P>r the freedom of her people. It
nad been agreed upon, tentatively.
I the kind of staff we would have
n the Sojourner Truth project, and
who some of the people would be.
It should be said here that at no
time did the housing commission
.hink of anything else than Negro
occupancy of the Sojourner Truth
Homes. The change was a direct
set of the agents of the federal
government. This is the record!
All along I kept informing Negro
leaders of the community about
the pressure to have the project
changed from Negro to white. I
tried to inform them by telephone,
telegram, letter, and bv personal
contact. The response was mild!
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
.Silas L. Gillespie
684 Madison St.
Detroit, Mich.
To the Editor,
Michigan Chronicle:
I have just finished reading an
l article of a big riot between the
| white and colored soldiers down in
(•ouisiana. Some riot you'll say
Twenty-eight colored boys were j
wounded and only one while boy ]
| wounded and he hurt his hand ,
| beating one of the .colored boys
(over the head with a flashlight,
j How can you have the nerve to call j
! I understand that Hitler and 5
j Stalin both have agents in every |
; branch of the armed forces and i
1 they are only trying toSreak down
the morale of the colored by creat- I
I .ng strife between the two races. |
j They all want to be an MP. so
1 that he will have a better chance i
, to start trouble.
Hitler and Stalin both know that
: if they oan sabotage the mind of
' 13 million people in this govem
i ment. that means quite a lot to
i But thaf will never happen for
j not so dumb."
But it does look like the govern
-1 ment should wake up to these "Big
|N. C. now one in La. They are all
started by police.
I Now just when will this govern
, ment wake up?—Silas L. Gillespie.
; 684 Madison St
NORTH EAST IMPROVEMENT ASSN
Monday evening. Feb...ary 2 at 6 3»»
was the regular meet.ng of the Nort.i
Mrs. Ro<a L. G-a*g. member of thr
by the President of the’ US. w.!l
«peak very to u* con
raid in our city. Mrv Bern.ee Griffin