The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 188, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 22, 1957 Page: 27 of 80
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GO THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
P Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, December 22, 1957
I In cc .... day, at this moment, there were The term, “turnpikes”, comes ’pikes’ were not turned up to
colony of Chinese Ase really equal facilities in the from 1795 when long poles (or permit passages of stages and
men brought in to build ndants or schools, I still would not like be- "pikes’) barred privately built other vehicles until a toll was
the river: Today, the colony Ie ing segregated." roads in Pennsylvania The paid
eludes‘a number of successful and
highly respected businessmen
What to do with their children
since they too are nonwhite'
< Chinese Negroes
The town made a distinction he
tween "Chinese Negroes," the
children of mixed racial parentage
and "Chinese Chinese," those of
pure blood. The latter were per-
mitted to attend schools with the
white children
For a time, no Chinese adult or
child could enter a white hospi
last minute
Stocking Stuffers
-— tal. They got medical care in the
CX 2 _ _ _ ■ G ■ • Mississippi hope to find a satisfac- hospitals with the Negroes
DOUITIORE ASAmAcrirsa tory solution to the school integral Now that has broken down too.
' Balked in Delta Country..
Editor’s Note—In the Nississip-Prof. A. D. Albright of Kentucky: Negro communities in the Delta? ment has been "95 per "cent date: don’t want my kids sitting next
pi Delta, the struggle over inte- ■ Integration is more important to A Negro professional man in able " He said it was widely re-10 kids who come from such homes
gration stands out in bolder out- the Negroes than the white man Louisiana, who asked-not to-be-printed in the South. ' and talk openly about sex."
line than anywhere else in the realizes, and segregation is more identified, said this: "Not even a Yet Emmerich is not an inte- Father LaBauve replies: 1 have
South Here . a veteran reporter important to whites than the Ne- Negro can say he knows what a grationist found that w hen people liv e under
translates that outline into a full-gro realizes." Negro feels today. In my judg- “I’m opposed to integration." certain economic conditions—slum-----
bodied report on the crucial prob- Integration will he a long time ment, though, our people are split he said. “Where you have a his conditions—their moral condition
lem of the Delta country. coming to the Delta into three groups tory of racial friction, the answer is practically the same, regard-
By RELMAN MORIN i People, white and Negro alike. "First, there are those who feel is not to mix the races in the less of the color of their skins
ISSAQUENA COUNTY Miss guess 10 years, 30 years, 30 years, this thing should be fought-out, schools and thus provide more The only reason it exists among
Dot 215 * This isTie Some whites say “Never.” bitterly, right now points of friction, but to really Negroes is that more of our peo-
s15 the Deep They also agree on an important ‘A second group feels - that give them equal facilities," ple than whites have to live under—
001 Point - that the groping first ef- movement: progress. is the im- Sentiment along these lines prob- such condit ions."
This is the Delta, flat and fer- forts of interracial groups to find portant thing. As long as the hall ably was reflected in the 120-mil- Hodding Carter linked this with
file, formed by the mighty Mis- solutions to the many-sided school is rolling, they say. it should be lion-dollar school building pro- "the emotional fear that Integra
sissippI, draining a continent, problem are now at a standstill.
Drooping willows fringe the Solutions at Standstill
bayous. Pintail ducks and beaver They say the Supreme Court . , --------------, .,
forage in the reeds. Deep in the ruling of 1954 first slowed these have not allowed themselves to new schools more than doubled' Eear Acute
plantation, you hear the dogs bay-moves, and that the use of federal think about it. They are con- funds allocated earlier in a community where white
ing on the scent of a fox. The wa- troops at Little Rock brought them cerned with keeping their jobs and David Brown, of the Greenville students might comprise only a
ter snake watches his enemies to a total stop maintaining peaceful, relations Delta Democrat, who made a third or less of the school popu
man and animal, with eyes of "There is less liaison now than with their employers." . , special study of the program, said. Jation this fear seems particular-
frozen hatred at any time since I e lived in His personal feeling, he said, is "More than 75 per cent of the ip acute in the southern mind.
This is the land of cotton and Mississippi—22 years," says Hod-that the prime necessity is to re money spent so far has been forIrsnonsense and a contradie.
sharecroppers. ding Carter, publisher and histo-establish good relations between Negro schools." tion." says Carter, to insult a
Here, in some counties, the Ne- rian who is widely known for his races Making An Effort white girl by assuming she will
gro outnumbers the white man .3-1, writings on the South. "Religious Talk It Out A plantation owner, L. T. Wade rush madly into the arms of a
and even more. _______and educational groups had made "You don’t establish good will —who has between 15 and 20 Ne-Negro if she has a chance"
The rickety, weather-worn some beginnings. But we’re back with legislation Im not saving gro families on his property—said He said he himself is not pre-
shacks lining sandy country roads at arm’s length now." you shouldn’t legislate But after If they give us time, were going pared to accept integration at the
often house Negro families of 10 Father John LaBauve. Negro you’ve done that,you- have- to to equalize this thing We re really grade schoollevel.
and 12 in two rooms. Catholic priest in the all-Negro have people of good will who will making an effort now | white thu.
Their children often pick cotton community of Mound Bayou, said: sit down together and talk it out Equal schools would help them " , P * , tar
until December, then go to school “There was a growing disposition Otherwise, it just won’t work" and help us Mechanization on the dents Bach ” E T
and try to learn in six months to meet on an equal basis, as Whatever else the ev ents of the farms will raise their 1liv ing stand communi ics w w
what the white child learns in American citizens, prior to 1954. past few years have done, there ards. So we want to have more something approaching quoun
nine This has been set back, temporar-is a big movement in Mississippi mechanical courses to train the bers etween., e. white
So here, in the Delta, the great ily, by the Supreme Court ruling, today to equalize the school facili. boys to care for the farm machin. Sro students: he says.
social struggle over integrating "As for Little Rock, we definite-ties of the whites and Negroes, ery. and then pay them for their He fees at enreconomic
the schools stands out, stripped to ly feel it was an unfortunate oc- Recently, Oliver Emmerich, ed- new abilities conditions or lesbeita gro
the raw currence. That’s not the same as itor of the McComb Daily Enter Some Negroes told this reporter full civil rights, voting privileges
Special Meaning saying it was not justified But it prise wrote in his paper We they want the principle of integra- etc., are more important than in
The Supreme Court ruling . upset the whites and disturbed must he honest with ourselves tion today, if not the practice—tegrating the schools
( Little Rock Nashville . . the a great many Negroes." and admit to ourselves that good that is, that they have a right to "Once a Negro achieves true
bombings and beatings ... it all. The original White Citizens Negro schools have been post go to a given school whether they equality, he wont give a damn-
takes on a new and special mean- Council, extreme segregationist poned far too long- and that ot her actually go there or not about the schools He w ill have
ing in the Delta. group, was formed in Mississippi, racial injustices within the South Said Father LaBauve. in Mound the right to send his child to an
The immense complexity of the at Indianola, July 11. 1954, by 14 have contributed to our current Bayou: "I don’t think anyone integrated school, or choose not
Souths problem, so difficult for men. debacle. wants integration just for the sake to send him there," he said
the North to grasp, emerges here Sentiment Hardened “When the time comes (for in-of integration. However, if getting A Negro told this reporter, can
in sharper colors, with more Since Little Rock, they say. tegration) all fortifications built on a tax-paid American education en- didly, "I’d rather have my son
jagged outlines, than anywhere sentiment has hardened as never negative thinking will crumble tails sitting beside a white Amer go to a segregated school, pro-
else, before You hear this everywhere-Not with arms nor threat s nor ican. then we w ant the same op- vided it had equal facilities. 1 feel
Here you feel the full force of in the South, .vituperation nor emotional out- portunity that America affords all he would learn more from a qual-
the words of a Southern educator. What about the feeling of the bursts nor economic pressures can its citizens, even the naturalized ified Negro instructor and stand
kept rolling, but they want to gram authorized by the Mississip- tion at the public school level will
make it as painless as possible, pi Legislature in 1953. In succeed-lead to miscegenation 'racial in-
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