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Rights Leaders Bypass
Women, Session Is Told
By ISABELLE SHELTON
Star Staff Writer
Negro women are being
largely ignored in the civil
rights drive, speakers at the
National Council of Negro
Women’s convention com
plained yesterday.
"What emerges most clear
ly from events of the past
several months is the ten
dency to assign women to a
secondary, ornamental or
honoree’ role instead of the
partnership role in the civil
rights movement which they
have earned by their cour
age, intelligence and dedica
tion,” delegates were told by
Miss Pauli Murray, a dis
tinguished Negro woman
lawyer, who has done basic
research books on laws gov
erning segregation.
It was “bitterly humiliat
ing" for Negro women “to see
themselves accorded little
more than token recognition
in the historic March on
Washington," Miss Murray
told the group, which is
meeting at the Statler-Hilton
Hotel.
“Not a single woman was
invited to make one of the
major speeches or to be part
of the delegation of leaders
who went to the White
House.” she said. The "omis
sion was deliberate," she
added, as "representations
for recognition of women
were made to the policy
making body" in plenty of
time.
The civil rights revolt,
“like many social upheavals,
has released powerful pentup
emotions, cross currents, ri
valaries and hostilities," Miss
Murray said.
Jockeying for Position
“In emerging from an
essentially middle class
movement and taking on a
mass character, it has be
come a vehicle to power and
prestige and contains many
of the element* of in-fight
ing that have characterized
labor’s emergence or the pre
independence African socie
ties. There is much jockeying
for position as men push
their way to leadership
roles."
Part of this, the speaker
conceded, "reflects the Negro
male’s normal desire to
achieve a sense of personal
worth and recognition of his
manhood by a society which
has so long denied it."
But this poses for the Ne
gro woman the question of
whether she is “losing or
gaining ground In the transi
tion ... to an Integrated so
ciety’’ she added.
Most of the emphasis In
the civil right* drive has
been for more job* for men.
Miss Murray suggested, even
though various factors “have
combined to make the Negro
woman the responsible fami
ly head in more than one
fifth of all non-whlte fami
lies."
It is "crystal clear" that
Negro women “can no longer
postpone or subordinate the
fight against discrimination
because of sex to the civil
rights struggle, but must car
ry on both fights simultane
ously,” she said.
Excess of Female*
A "particular problem” for
Negro women, the speaker
suggested, is that the 1960
census shows there are
645,000 more Negro females
than Negro males.
There is an excess of white
females over white males,
too, she said, but only "in the
middle and later years."
For Negroes, “the excess is
present for every age group
over 14, and Is greatest in
the 15-44 group "which cov
ers the college and generally
marriageable years,” she
said.
Thus, "the Negro woman
cannot assume with any de
gree of confidence that she
will be able to look to mar
riage for either economic or
emotional support," Miss
Murray said. "She must pre
pare to be self-supporting
and to support others” and
hence “has no alternative
but to Insist upon equal op
portunities without regard to
sex in training, education
and employment at every
level.”
Dr. Jeanne L. Noble, as
sistant professor at New York
University’s Center for Hu
man Relations Studies,
agreed with Miss Murray
that women were “relegated
to the back seats” in the
stepped-up civil rights drive.
But this may be good, she
said, “if by being bypassed
we free our men to take the
lead, and once and for all
put to rest the myth of the
Negro matriarchy.”
The myth, she said, "has
been used to beat Negro
women over the head, away
from PhD.’s, MD.’s, and
other fields of higher learn
ing.”
The group also heard yes
terday from William Welsh,
administrative assistant to
Senator Philip Hart of Mich
igan, and Dr. Grace L. Se
well, program co-ordinator
for the Department of
Health, Education and Wel
fare.
Mr. Welsh urged the group
to “think beyond” the civil
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rights bill, which he said
would solve many problems
in the South but have “little
or no benefit for Negroes in
big Northern cities.”
There are many Federal
programs now on the books
which would help Negroes in
large cities, he said, but It
takes "infinite patience" to
find and develop them.
He suggested the women
pursue these objectives back
In their local communities.
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Members of the Sargent
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open House Sunday from
2:30 to 4 pm. at the Church
of the Hohi City on Sixteenth
street. N.W. This will be the
first reunion of the group
since the closing of the origi
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ago.
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