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What Mississippians Believe
The August 25 issue of the newspaper, "BETTER SCHOOLS,"
published by the National Citizens Commission for the Public
Schools, 2 West 45th Streep New York, gives the following facts
about the expressed educational aims of Mississippians:
20,000 replies to a questionnaire by the Bureau of Educa
tional Research, School of Education, University of Mississippi
in 1951 'showed the people of that state believe 95% in "En
couraging pupils to think clearly, logically and independently."
Evidently they have succeeded in making them think independ
ently of most of the rest of the country but the 5% who have in
sisted that school children think as they wish them to think
about rdcial matters have utterly defeated the 95% who want
them to think clearly and logically. ;
Ninety-three per cent of those replying believe in "De
veloping in each pupil an understanding of and the ability to
meet his responsibility as a citizen. Lynching, bombings, intimi
dation of Negro citizens trying to exercise their citizenship re
sponsibility to vote are evidently the work of only 7% of the
-people of Mississippi. Ninety-two per cent believe in "Develop
ing a moral and ethical sense in each pupil and helping him
to appreciate his personal worth and that of his fellow man."
Either the 92% have not worked very hard toward the goal or
there is considerable confusion about right and wrong and who
is his fellow man.
There are other items on which large numbers of Missippi
ans gave affirmative replies. One was that they believe in
"making the school program a real part of community life
so as to help meet the needs of all citizens; 85% said "yes."
Evidently, the trouble is either that they do not consider Ne
groes either a part of the community or that Negroes are citi
zens.
On the other hand, believing in high minded statements
but not believing in putting those statements into effect is not
the fault only of Mississippians.
This paper has met this kind of confused attitude among
businessmen, churchmen, fraternal organizations, and in every
walk of life. It is easy to say what we believe in and another
thing to put our beliefs into action. Whatever the trouble, our
Negro brothers in Mississippi are in a sad state despite the high
mindedness of their fellow white citizens.
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TIME FOR ACTION
AF of L Members Protest
Mississippi Lynching
A Negro child was lynched in
Mississippi—and a jury of 12 white
men in Tallahatchie county decided
solemnly there was no evidence of
a crime because the body of the
child was mutilated beyond recog
nition.
Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam
walked out of the courtroom free
of the charge of murder, and the
grieving mother of Emmett Till
said what she saw of their trial
“was a shame before God and
man,” and that “lynching is now in
order”.
But submission to the ruling of
the lily-white jury in Mississppi
there cannot be —and defeatism
there cannot be.
The terror can be stopped in
Mississippi. Lynchings can bo stop
ped. The lynchers can be brought
to justice. Negro children and their
mothers and fathers can win the
right to live as free human beings
in Mississippi and throughout the
South.
It can be done —despite the fact
officials of Mississippi have cloaked
the lynching of children with the
sanction of the law, despite the
fact that behind the lynchers stand
the wealthy politicians and busi
ness leaders of the White Citizens
Councils.
It can be done if the bitterness
and anger pouring out of protest
meetings in Chicago and Detroit
and New York and Oakland, light
up a national crusade of protest
and action.
It can be done if the Negro
people in our country, 15 million
strong, proclaim to the state of
Mississippi and to our federal gov
ernment that the lynchers must be
punished.
It can be done if our labor move
ment, CIO and AFL, embraces as
its own, the demand that Negro
parents and their children shall
be able to walk free and erect in
Mississippi.
It can be done if the Eisenhower
administration is told the Federal
government cannot stand aside
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while Negroes are murdered—but
must use all the powers of the FBI
and Justice Dept, to punish the
lynchers and protect the civil
rights of the Negro people in the
South.
It can be done if the Democratic
party is forced to recognize that
it cannot shrug aside in indiffer
ence the horror which is Mississ
ippi, that it must recognize its own
responsibility to deal with a situa
tion brought on by white suprema
cist Democrats.
Lynchers still go unpunished in
Mississippi. But the time of the
rope and the faggot is passing.
The white supremacists stand with
their backs against the wall.
The weight of world-wide horror
and anger beats on their heads.
They are being pressed back by
new forces in our country which
ae beginning to be felt in the
South, by the powerful protests of
the Negro People and their white
allies.
The lynchers can be punished.
The Jim Crow terror can be stop
ped.
Anger and bitterness are needed
but also unity is needed. Unity and
action—action clear-headed and de
termined along lines already urged
by Negro leaders and some labor
spokesmen.
Each of us has the responsibility
to help shape that unity and that
action by taking this issue into his
unions, into churches, into organi-
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zations, by summoning neighbors,
friends, fellow workers to:
Demand that Gov. Hugh White
of Mississippi guarantee that the
new trial of Bryant and Milam on
kidnapping charges not be a white
wash and guarantee that Negro
people be protected under the law.
Demand in letters and telegrams
and resolutions that Atty Gen. Her
bert Brownell act to curb the lynch
terror and bring the Mississippi
lynchers to justice.
Demand a special session of Con
gress to enact federal anti-lynching
and other civil rights legislation.
Demand that the Democratic
party*take an unequivocal stand
against the Mississippi terror and
for anti-lynching legislation.
Demand in delegations and let
ters Congressmen and Senators
pledge their support to anti-lynch
ing legislation.
Words of the Wise
Few people think more than ;
two or three times a year. I ,
have made an international I
reputation for myself by think
ing once or twice a week.
—-(George Bernard Shaw)
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