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Wilkins Urges President To Revise
Opinion on Pace of Desegregation
Addressing the annual conven
tion of the National Bar Asso.
elation in Chicago Roy Wil
kins , NAACP executive secre
tary, called upon President Eisen,
hower t o examine the “snail-like
pace of integration to date" with
a view to revising his opinion—
“not to urge overnight action
but to urge reasonable and steady
progress in accord with law.’’
la his address delivered to the
lawyers on August 28, Mr. Wil
kins cited the president’s press
conference admission that he
"might have said" privately that
the school desegregation pro
gram should be slowed down.
Mr. Eisenhower made his state
ment in answer to a reporter’s
question last week.
This position, the NAACP lead
er said, is "incredible." Infor
mation, on the slow progress of in
tegration, he asserted, "must have
been kept from him by his ad
visers. The record is there tor
ready, inspection and judgment.”
Noting that “next door to the
White House in the state of Vir
ginia not a single school has
been integrated in the four and
a half years since the Supreme
Court decision," Mr. Wilkins
asked: "Does Mr. Eisenhower
think that Virginia should move
more slowly than this?" He cit
ed six other states in which “not
a single school has been inte
grated" and three in which
“only token integration" has tak
en place.
"In Little Rock only nine Ne
gro children were involved out
of the entire city — nine among
2,000 white children at Central
high school. Is this pace too fast
in the president’s opinion?” he
asked. At the present rate of in
tegration in Arkansas,, 100 years
would be required for completion
Mr. Wilkins pointed out. "But
the president thinks the present
pace of integration should be
slowed down. Would he give
Arkansas 200 years, or only 150?”
To slow down, he asserted,
"would be standing still.”
Mr. Wilkins suggested that the
president will “want to revise
his opinion” once he has review
ed the official reports on inte
gration. "He owes this to 2,000,
000 Negro children still in seg
regated schools who are being
denied their constitutional rights
and being crippled each pass
ing day as they seek to prepare
themselves for life.”
Commenting on an aqti-Su
preme Court resolution passed
by the Conference of Chief
Justices at a recent meeting' in
California, Mr .Wilkins said that
these state jurists, in "hinting
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strongly" 'that the United
States Supreme’ Court ruled
contrary to the Constitution in
the segregation cases, expressed
"preciously the contention of the
segregationists, including Orval
Faubus the Ku Klux Klan, the
White Citizens Concils, the lily
white state legislatures, the kill
er-sheriffs, and the lyncher
-lawyers.
The passage of this resolution.
Mr. Wilkins maintained,
indicates that they "want no
interference by federal authori
ties with local self-government
regradless of how savage it may
be, or how widely at variance
with even ordinary concepts of
justice."
As instances of the kind of
justice Negroes are receiving in
the south today, Mr. Wilkins
cited the case of Jimmy Wilson
who was sentenced to death in
Alabama on conviction of rob
bing a woman of $1.95; the ac
quittal of a Mississippi sher
iff qf the charge of beating a
Negro prisoner to death, despite
the testimony of two white
witnesses; and the refusal of a i
federal grand jury in Dawson,
Ga.. to return an indictment a
gainst a police officer charged
with killing two Negroes.
These, he declared, are illus
trations of “the kind of ‘justice’
that is the lot of the Negro un
der the states’ rights theory of
government.” Alabama, he point
ed out has had the statute pro
viding the death penalty for
robbery for 31 years, "but in
that time has executed only
four men — all Negroes —for
robbery."
This kind of justice, the NA
ACP leader asserted, stems from
the disfranchisement of the Ne
gro. The denial of the rigllt to
vote also makes it "easy to un
derstand why 196 special laws
could have been enacted in ’
southern state legislatures de
signed specifically to circumvent ,
or nullify the 1954 decision of ’
the Supreme Court. Some of
these law’s also aim at the de
struction of the NAACP. A
mong them are provisions which
would hamper, if not prevent
completely, the practice of civil ,
rights law by Negro or white
attorneys.”
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Bernice Croal
Mrs. A. M. Craft .was recently
the guest of relatives at Nash
ville, . . Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel
Floyd, Mr and Mrs. Robert Smith
and George Alcorn motored from
Chicago to visit relatives and re-
0. C. Naacp Youths
Break Race Ban At
Store Counters
"A "sit-down" protest campaign
by 435 members of the Oklaho
ma City NAACP youth council
has resulted in the opening ol
lunchroom and soda fountain
facilities in four of the city's
largest drug and department
stores to Negro customers, Bar.
bara Posey, secretary of the
youth councl reported this week
The stores — Katz Drug com.
pany Kress department store,
Veazey Drug company and the
H. L, Green company — yielded
to the youthful demonstrators
after several days of protest.
Miss Posey said that the young
people were gratified with their
initial success, but, "we are de.
termined to continue the cam
paign until every facility
is open t o all."
At a youth rally in Oklahoma
City August 27, Mrs. Clara Lup
er, advisor to the youths, ex
pressed thanks to the various or
ganizations and individuals foi
the hundreds of letters and
telegrams of encouragement and
support which the youth have
received from every part of the
nation.
In New ’York City, Herbert L.
Wright, N. A. A. C. P. youth
secretary hailed the Oklahoma
City youth council for its out.
standing accomplishments ait
called on youth groups through.
turn the Floyd children to Chi
cago. They have been summer
guest of their grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Mitchell. . . The
annual Workshop for the W. F.
Branch High was conducted
Thursday and Friday evenings.
An appreciable audience attend
ed. . . Little Miss Virginia John
son returned to Chicago after a
few weeks visit with Mr. and
Mrs. Jessie Berry and family. . .
Miss Tillie Lee Adams and uncle.
Jesse Berry spent Labor Day in
Memphis. . The annual Back
to school Tea was given by the
PTA in Sunday at the J. N.
Hout Cafetorium. The tea was
well attended. . Miss Constance
Cratf was guest speaker on Sun
day evening at St. Paul AME
church. Miss Craft told of her
having attended a Citizenship
Encampment at New 'York City
during the summer. Special
guest were students entering and
returning to college, A reception
for them closed the evening af
fairs . . .Miss Shirley Thompson
was entertained with a “Coke
Party”, on Friday at the home
of Mrs. Jose Barksdale. . . Send
in news early or call 1495. You
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Fri., Sept. 5, 1958 —STATE PRESS—
Undertakers Get ;
Break From VA
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The Government allowance to- 1
ward veterans’ burial expenses
has been increased to $250 from
its former list of $l5O A. H.
out the nation to take similar
action.
Hammann, Manager of the Lit-
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2 tablespoons sugar 4 " w <[ ter
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i nounced. Applying only to deaths
i on or after August 18, 1958, the
| increase was aith'i.zed by Pub
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