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EJnoriaU Comments et /_ 111 s. PtaHoiy St. ^Owtea. Noitk CarMia* . M|UiM «t Owitea. North UaroilM ] SvM7'8>t«rday,by CHS CAfiOUNA TIM^ PUBLUtfilNO 00-, ■* PHCHfSSi J-7S71 N-71S1 L. £. AUSTIN, PUBLISHER E. PHILIP ELLtS, MANACINC EDITOR WiUJAM A. TUCK, BUSINESS MANAOEJI Ent«rtd m Mcond-clau matter at tht post offlk* at Durham, N. C., under CKe Act «f March ard 1«79.» t-'«r laforaiatlffa |p«rt«iaiay l« Nat'l Ai««rti*iag Writs to TmU Tmii, Air. R^reeeBtatlree 1 W. 12Stk StTMt, R*«ai It Ut.W YORK CITY, NEW YORE iiATUROAY, JUNE 17tk 1»3» NEGRO JUKYMEN Rectntly at Witmington, Not in CHialinH white lawyers tii XvndiDg a Negro client, railed ttie issue ot excluding J.\«gr dt»- ue« from jury service tu tne advantage of tfleir client. In urange and Bumerous otoer counties o^.tne siaie, Negrots nave on mure than one occasion been called to Jury servioe. In Durham county wharc much noue ts alway* made auout line race relations, no t\egto bM served on a Jury tur more than years. Duriuun has about as luany Negro lawyers to the ■^ui^i'e loot •a any oUier Nurth Carolina city, in additiOQ JJurham is supposed to have as lyiucb Negro intelligence and as many Negro taxpayark to til* square fool as any oiher North Carolina city. Why Uur- ham ijegro lawyers and uitelligent Negro citizeas wui contiuue to permit *^an issue as seriuus as the jury question to go un- aiiawered is beyond our comprenension. We think Negro lawyers and citizens too are paying too big s price for a little popularity witn the opposite gruup. 'rne continu- •us unlawful practice of refusing to calOiegrues lor Jury service is this county is an issue that ougnrTo'&e met squarely and with- eut fear or iavor. . .-u-v U white lawyers, in a city as pregnant with race hatred and bicotry as WUmington, can altora to raise the jury ^juestion hi de- teos* «i-their Negro ciienta, w« see no reason why Negro lawyers sio Durham cannot do the same. We are of the opin^n that such a lawyer would have the support of all well thinking white' and Negro citizens of Durham county. • small Negro Durham oe- ^ THE SMALL NECiKO BUSINESS Within th« (w«t 30 days more than a half-dozen liuaineas Mtahliahmeuts have closed their doors in CJMIM they were unable to make a go of it. Listed among the enali businesses that have failed was one the oldest and large.dt Me- gro grocery stores in the entire state; In addition there were two cafes, a bakery, a beauty parloj; and a bai4>er shop, A purvey would possibly diylosfe many and various rt:ason« as to why these esta'blishmenfo went ^ut of businesa. Whatever the cause, one thing is certain, none of them’ Closed their doors because' they were getting too-'much patronage from members of their own race. ff ^ Here in Durham we have what is know as the “Durham Busi ness Chain.” The organization is supposed to foster and' encourage the development of new Negro buemesees and encourage those already established. It would seem hoi^ever that the organization has failed miserably in the purpose for which it was eatablished. The Carolina Timfs does not attempt here to place all the blame on the •houldM's of the Durham Business Chain, because this news paper realizes that.some business failures are inevitable. We do think however that m»re support from Negroes would Jiave result ed in the continuance of some of the establishments.. Such sup port could have partially been provfded had the membership of the Durham Bittiness Chain shown a little more honest interest. In Durham and elsewhere we have got ^o have a greater inter est in' the small >iegro business. We have got to realize that with out its success the larger Negro business cannot forever eudjire. Whether or not the Durham Business Chain is capable of perform ing the task for which it was organized remains yet to be seen. Kelly Miller Writes fl A NEGRO ARCHITECT On May lifith Harold L. Ickes jiecretary o* me interior, in his vapaciiy as i'ariou JLX-Utiice ot tioward university, dcxvered the ‘edicaiory Adtlres* b>.a prereiit- ef tne l*'Ounders taorary to tue Trustees of this - National Institu tion for the hJirher and pruiess- lunai education oi tne Negro race, xne Founders Library was Duilt out of FWA fundi, under the direction ol Secretary ickes at a cost of l,liU6,00i> dollars. This Library dedicated to t h e memory ol General O. O Ho ward and the other founder* of Howard University, is said to take rank among the best librar ies of America in appointments and facilities, as regards both utility and beauty. This Build ing will house the “National Negro Library Museum,” containing collections of books, documents, manuecripU' pirihts and other forms of matirini^jb^ or about Negroes. This colKc- tion will constitute its distinc tive featuk-e and will giv3 the Howard University Btiilding a unique 'place among American Libraries. In his dedicatory Ad dress Secretary Ickes with evi dent satisfaction stressed the fact that this Building which conforms in every detail to the canons of Library technique in side, and out, was planned and constructed by a Negro Archi tect. The Negro is noted for his artistic feeling and the rubar- ance, his untutored passion and action. The mere beating of De- wai of th« Cornell University’s partment of Architecture, selected by the Trustees of Ho ward University and approved by the Department of the In terior as Architect, planner and builder of the “Twenty Year Plan” of expansion nt an esti mated cost of 110,000,000 under the joint auspices of the Federal Governanent, the Beardf of Trustees and several educa tional foundations for the high er education of the Negro. Mr. Cassell was entrusted witn the supervision of ‘the enlargement, landscaping, and beautification of the Campus, and the location planning and construction of the Buildings. There have already been ereeted twelve Buildings at a cost of five million dollars, which involve all forms a n phases of scholastid arnhietec- ture including Stadium, Gymna sium, Dining Hall; Dormitories i confront every baby Power Plant/ Recitation a n d i „ ^ Lecture Hall, Science Buildings ; “ ■ lives, h«re are certain with technical equipment, cli- ailmeir^ that always BETWEEN Ban On Fight THE LINES Is Based On Prejudice Wr Gordon B. Hancock GUM-RUBaiNG AND STUDENT STRIKES The old maxim “God doesn’t love ugly’ should be reexamined in the light of facts. Bsbies are about as ugly m anything in crea tioa when the^ are born, but nobody likes to think that God does not love the babies. Not only is it true that all of are born ugly; but the' sad ^act re mains, few of us wer ^fully re cover from this infantile short coming. The “beauty” that mo. thers see in their baS>ies is al- mosit a hundred' per cent imagina tion; but this does not detract from its enchantments. The business of being a baby J ^ is very dangSTbus, for iufant mortality is one of the always pressing problems. Thera are BY DAVID PLATT maxing in the Founders Library. All of this work ■ accom plished under the general sjper- vision of the Architectural ex perts'! of the Government and have met with the entire ap proval of the Federal authorities as attested wbeh each Building as ooBi(pl«tad Md tomel over io the iVuBtees of the Univer sity by tWe Interior Department. stand astrid^ his little pathway to harass him as he star*:* on that long Journey from the cradle to the grave. Whooping cough is alwayv dangerous for babies and while teething not necessarily dangerous it often proves quite distuKbinv to the child, Bhbies become terribly fre tful when they begin to teethe apd must have special care if Ri£C£NTLY, Jack Deaipsey testified in Washington before a sub committee of the Senate Interstate Commerce Coinmiss- ion and a battery of motion picture cameras, urged support of the Barbour L'lll to r«:p«^l the fight film ban, it is higli time that thik statute be taken otf the I'ooks. The ban against transporting fight films from state to state originated twenty years ago in a vicious^ campaign of race ha, tred and'int^erance whipped up by William Randolph Heart against former *World Heavy weight champtQn Jack Johnson, The law became effective »hort- the words “'bestiality" or bru tality after that match. Only with th» Johnson, JefTiies tiif in which a Nejfro emergeu the world’s champion, did Hearst and other half baked moralists discover the “brutality ol prise fighting,* Im^rtial aports writers wnb sat Mc me ringside during the match said that Johnson pt^t ap a beauiiiui exnnuition oi \o^x- ing and won >heer(y ,.»lu;wgh superior fighting ability. The Kvansvilie Courier, expressed the real feelings of the Ameri can people when it aaid shortly after tha fight; “This protest against the motion of the fight is extreme ly after Johnson’s sensational j^y silly, l-'ear that they will in victory by a knockout j v e r ; cite racial dicord \i foolish. Why I they are to cut their taeth with- iAi- faw Negroes stand out con- ^ out great' comfort. Very often spicuously in tha several _.f;elds taething begins with an itching of knowledge as emest of" what j of the gums and thoughtful mo- the race may hope to accom- thers always rub tha gums of pUsh when it comes to mature their babes to make teething time ieU hu feet a flyiOiJ and ’intellectual statur^. The accom- easy. Well do I remember see- bo^ vwayiag and swin^ng j pliihments of Dr, E. Juat ing qiothers in ^the old time be- But he has never, until quite ^ head of the Biology of Howard fore germs weVe thought of, recently evinced much aptitude , University, and former v i c c j with their finger in the baby’z for plastic or creative art. The,, President of the AiB»rican I mouth ruibbing briskly while untutored Negro mechanic und-^ Biological .Society, are reccgniz little creature kicked vigoroua- er^the slave regime could con- *nd extoled throughout the ly. He ^ied if his gums w,ere stiruct imposing Ibuilding b y ^ biological world’. Dr, George W. I i ed and h« cried if they blind imitation » ik d rule of , Carver of Tuskegee Insti*. it J not. Unfortunate is that babe thumb, without ability to read has made valuable contributi^jn without the 'appropriate gum the blue print or to understand in the field of economic chemis j .bing that teething demands, meelvanical or artistic principles, ^try and botany. I From time time we read James Weldon Johnson, the account of student -atrike9 in late lamented Negro poet a n d ' our Negro colleges. The vtrefek is scDolar, typifies the hest ft-sults j dull and prosaic that does not of the higher education o* the have its press accounts of strik knack without He pressed the the knowledge, The hii^ar Mluoaticn of the gro h«s idValopMl sundry i&iividuala with a xaat lor Ji- terature, poetry; music and ora tory in an appreciative if not in a creative sen^e. Secretary Ick es. our PWA Administrator, has employed several Iflsgro Archi tects who must measure up to the standards of the department or fall by their own weight. Albert 1. Oassell, a prcduct Negro in the field of literary * culture. In. like manneir Albert I, Cassell, the Arehitect of Ho ward University, exemplifies the highest 'expression of the higKer education of the Negro in the domain of the applied sciences involving bpth utility and beauty. KiRTiLY MitiLBR / THE BUS HEARING NEXT FRIDAY Tbe bus case hearing to be held Friday before State Utilities Commiasioner Stanley Winbome will be of unusual interest du» to the fact that bus companies now operating in the state have never dealt fairly with their Nfegro passengers in the matter of provid ing decent waiting rooms. in Durhan^i Greensboro and Raleigh the waiting rooms for Negro passengers resemble a hog pen more tten a place provided i^r the use of human beings. The waiting rooms for white p^opl^ are so fir aheM of Those pi-o^Med for- Negro passengers .ihat ^ most of them would think the dawn of a new" day had arrived if the bus companies would provide facilitisf for Nejtroes half as good. The complaint now being registered by white ; people against the bus j;ompanies only goes to show what it Uikb to get things done. It. ought to be a lesson to Negroes who hestitata to go into court to obtain*^l^ir right*. Only Negro leaders would tolerate the filthy,L.uns^tary and indecent waiting rooms for Negroes provided by bns companies operating in this state. H Ministers tan howl about religion as loud as they want ([b, N^:rb |>hyaicians can sing the blues about iheir patients going elsewhere until they are blue in the face, Negro buemess men can preach about patronizing. Negro business all they want te, and so> on down the line. But until Negro profeasional and busiaess men betome interested in the masa of Negroes enough to withstand a little unpopularity with the 'Opposite group, they will naver be able to obtain the support from them they should. The hearing pext'Friday should be attended by Negro repreaen- tatives as well as white people. Negroes in North Carolina- have a far greater reason to ask for complainiag about the poor service of bus eompaiuee. ii^h1« state than white people. Married . 9en stay q,ut of jail tetter in North Carolina than do ringle men. During fiscal 1938, 61.4 per cent of tha men in prison had sever b«en married. Of the Negroes, d3,£ per cens had never been married, ( * - ^ During the years 1986 and 1986 there were only *aS7 oerauns in The Digest BY FLOYD J. CALVIN^ Koftb C*rollH» Wft6~ted1iaa a“ college edossttBn: Out of the tatal of 37,867 Nortb Carolina prisoners in Id’S? and IMS only 313 or less than one out of every hundred ^had been to collect. J. . ■*% • 1 Parions coniHcted.of larceny, assauk and drunkennass, ia that order^^ake up tha larger percentage of North, Catolina owners iriat^'^in diaeiplinary “C” grade, N. C. State Highway prison camp»« cared for 9677 prisons in A^ril, 1M«. SOCIAL STUBIES v We wish to «all te the tion of our^ educators and, social workers the i^ilendid resedarch monographs now t>eing issued iby the i)ivision of Social Research, Washington. We have reaently persued such volumes as “Farm-, ing Hazards in tha Droughth' Area,” “Rurtil Families on Be lief,” and '“Ruraii Youth: Their Situation and Prospects." These are exhaustive studies, directed by trained sociologists, and they have both current and per manent value. For int%DC«, in the 167 work on “llaral Youth’* we leam in the chapter, “Marriage of Rural Youth” that; Color and residence both influence the proportion of youh of' t^e various ages which is inarried; In, Ifl^O relatively more Megro than white youth were married in all segments of the popula tion, rural farm and rural non farm. While more Negfro young men in rural farm ffian in rural non farm territory were married the reverse was true for Negro young women with the exception of those 24 years of age," photographs > are. used in %e Government publications, photo glyphs of Negroes are used. We congratulate the^WPA on this Division of Socidl R e- search, and Howatd B. Myers the director. In. (his Instance as in so many others, the tax I is well that the Negro' of New atten-1 York let it be known just what He has accompTislifd in the prize city of our country. The current Ci^sis Mi«azine very appik>priBte ly carries photographs of three 1^e^"!^^Y™Fre^o""Ju3ge8 111 We front eoVer—Judge Charles £. Toney, Judge Myles A. Faigei and Judge S. Watson, all earn ing 110,000 a year aad over all sitting in courts where litigants or defendants appear without r^^d to race or color. Inaeed, Judge Paige’s photograph was taken in the Women’s Court, and this yeung miagistrate has made quite a reputation I of Tndividua-, lity and originality in handling eases. That New York is truly a city of oppojrlunlty Is, indicated by the birthplace of the three juBges;' Judge Teney is from .I^ssellville, Ala.; Judjjfe Paige is from Montgomery, JUdge Wat son is from Kingston, Jamaica, ». W, L J ^ mtmim wwa cat*Hg~mf IVf O i >*.4# April, 1»M. NbM hundred and seventy Juvenile deliquents were being car ed for by 'the State of North Carolina in April, 198^. The N, C. Confed^ate Women’s Home had a population of 42 Jb Aarii tm. EDITORIAL. OF THE WEEK (Prom the New York Post, June 8th 1930) es or near strikes in some Negro institution of learning. These strikes invariably end so plea santly and are .conducted so harm lessly that we have learned not to take them too setiously, A diagnosis of the various situa tions always reveals that stu dents have soma real or imagin ary “grievance” which they would hay^e redressed. Seldom 's a professor dismissed without some uprising tacit or over^ on the part of the student body. They have not learned that ^e fellow who pays the piper not only calls the tunes but always selects his pipers. When these students are “headknockars” themselves they too will vigor ously refuse to delegate to im mature students the prerogative of selecting pipers that some body else must pay. The fact is, most of these “grievaaces” are imaginary and what is really hypp^ning ia the and moral “teething*’ o,! the young Negro ^atudents. It is a healthy sign! Some time, somehow, aomewhere the ^ung N««ro«i p • t teethe morally and intellectualy and college is ft good place as any. Aa the diet changes from ^ milk to bread the teeth must'come into play, when the young Ne gro gets able fo digeat inteUec- I tual and mental bread and must be weaned from the bottiC, ho must teethtf^and this teething causes a kind of intellectual gum itching and this in tflm eallit for a gum rubbing which various school situations afford. It is a perfectly natural, harmless, de velopment and tha laek of “casualties” ia evidence thereof. Ia fact it ia a good sign for the students to get the notion of standing together; and the way they do this frdm timo to time ii. heartening. Negroee must leam, to stand togethea^ »ome where and school is a good place to practice I So long aa they keep these sh^:»aft theyr *f AffieTtca "Bas the most superbly developed fighting man in the world, we should bef proad of it, whether James Jeffriea m the grtot heavy weight chanH>ionship bout that took placa. in Reno, Nevado, on July 1910, No sooner had Johns"n teen ' he is white or black..„,W h y acclaimed the world’s undifrput-' should any white man fee jealous ed champion then Hearst gave ' of a itaarT who is triumphant in one af^he most disgraceful ex-' a contest of strength employed hibitions ever seen in his efforts ^jth skill? A Negro ^won a prize to calumniate, a minority race, tor oratory at Yale a few yiv* Hearst condemhed the fight as I i, that cause for * race a “brutaF battle for ibloou” and ! Hurrah for Jackson John- called for the 8uppres3.cn of I Black Champion. We are this films which he said “were • ^hat he is an American...” more vicious than the fight it* i i self” and would lead to race j This eloquent appeal I6i -ioler riota. At the same time thu self ance, resulted in the film being appointed defender of the pu- shown publicly in E^^nsville. blic morals, himself incited race ^ Contrary to riota by portraying Jack John son in his newt^apers as ihsati- able beast stalking his prey with ''^lentlees cruelty and cunning. Yellow Pr«*^ in Action Oddly enough Hearst never once thought to interfere with such earlier gory clashes as the JohnBon^B‘urns bout, the Burns, Gunner Moir fight, the Gans Nelson fray, the Johnson- Ketchel match or the Nalson- Wolgast ooinbat. This last fra cas was said to have bean the most brutual fight in' ring his tory, But no one brought up the inflamers of I. ' race prejudice, there was not a single riot or disorder. Trouble occurred only in ^ose places where Hearst poison w^s free A fireal Artist Puis fienius To Worit filY EUGENE GOBDON PAUIL ROB£s6n stands in the middle of the large living room. His huge body towers toward the celling but he balan ces himself lightly on feet plant ed slightly apart. He is concen trating on an answer to t h a query why he is tfoon coming home to sUy. He stares btrai«ht ahead,, speaking slowly; pauses to weigh the value of his words then continues. His voice has the timbre of a bass viola. “Certainly in my travels ia many .countries of Europe, 'parti cularly in Spain, and having be^n close to the struggloa in China, Ethiopia and the W a a t Indiea^^ have seen and reeegnia ed the easentf&l unity of' this international fight for democr acy against fascism,” Hc'liits again, hunchini; over the frail card table, leasing close and speaking with such in tense earnestness that f^ a moment you ftrget that you sire listening to oae of the most beautiful voMTis" in the wQrld. “Having helped on many fronta, I feel that it is now time for nte to return to the place oi^ my origin—to those roots whiah though inbedded. in ^egro life, are essentially American and are so regarded by the people of most countries, ^ To Siag FoUuoBgs “I used to think of myaelf as a concert arist, after the fash ion, say of Marian Anderton. to play on the emotions of 1910 [From years of experience 1 most backward and ignorant know now that 1 am a singer of sections of society. The major ity of the fight fans o 19,10 just as proud of the victory of Jack Johnson and were just as eager to see the films of the fight as the fans of 1939 are folksongs. And when I say that. I don’t mean songs of the Negro only.’ I , Whi«l|i'. assertion led to a dis cussion of the responsibilty in wKich every prpmi^ent Negro proud and eager to see every fjnda himself, no matter in what move of BVown Boi^ber J o Loais in action in the ring or on the screen. Sentiment In Third Term For FDR MiasOnH “Coai^lie*" ^ The United States Supreme Court has ordered Missouri to abolish racial inequality i n higher learning. The Missouri Legislature accordingly has passet’ a law ordering Lincoln University to “make itself i the equal in every way” of t h a| University of Mlsaourt. To achi- - system of' gma mtfotng I,or the mOUmY fairly. Neii^ York Nkgro 'The New York World's Fair draw thousands of people to the metropolis of Amfrica, eve thisj Uncoln’s curators were voted |e0^>000. The same Legislature then appropriated to the University and it: of Missouri |8,000,000. ff intellectual Ibalbies These student strikes then should be appraised l°r what they aT«, thAt.is, types of gum- ruibbing and not as perils to the cause of peace and harmony of our institutions. They are not the perirotfr things that some are inclined to fear. Students —J get over them in . 1.^. ■ Powerful sentiment for the drafting of President Roosevelt to run for a third term w a s crystallizing throuhout the country this week followng a statement by Southern suppor ters of Vice President Garner that the Texan’s that was in the ring for the 1940 Democra- nomination regardless of- whether President koosevelt h?a«lT t h e giofejpg denmnds from labor and|p«)rogre88ive cir- J country to cles that he run again in 1940. The Chicago Defender report ed »that a survey it made in Har lem during the past month in dicates that "Harlem will go for Preside^ ^lidly if. he seeks a third term." Harlem is gen erally believed to reflect t h e sentiment of the bulk , of Negro citizens throughout the country. Meantime, Maury Mavericn. New ®fik1 mayor of San Anton io, _PartytlW nomination of John N. Gamer, Texas tory, would “bring nothing but de feat to the-vPemipcratic party.” Other politicaroGaerv'ers saw the mergence of a New Deal with 1, good chance for victory, should the Southern anti New Dealers aucceed in putting ovet the nomination of Garner in the 1940 Democratic conven tion, « Mavertek, who as a member of the lat Congress was the only Southern Representative to sup port the anti lynching bill de secretary representative of the most progressive section of the New Deal, declared: “If the people can be trusted to elect a president for one or two terms, they can be trusted to decide wheter he shall have a third. I am too devoted to Roose velt personally to wish him to continue in a heartbreaking job, were there jinyone to replace hiny but I’m too dewtttad . to »y ■be unwilling to sacri fice to it," if necessary, even the well being and peace of a man who has earned peace,” • Ickes declared that the re- CoikHa«il.On page five fielc^ha. works. Paul Robeson has thought considerably, on the matter, ' .... ——..4, It seems that today, i t h things as they are, no Negro can help feeling that he repre sents more tfian merely himself. The case of Marian Anderson is a good illustration. She is truly a i^eat artisl, singing'as « h e does in that) magnificent voice, the best songs of the world. She suddenly found herself, through circumstancea o v a r which she has no control, repre senting the whole Negro people of the United States. Her., responsibility took on a decided political tinge, too—of immense importance to the Negro people. Praises New Deal He disgressed here to praise the Roosev^l^.^ adiiainjstration for rebuking the DAR and o t K e r unHera^ralic elements through allowing Marian Anderson to sing at the Lincoln Menrrorial o* Kastef Su«3ayr Robeson has from the beginn- _ ing considered Negro folksoni^ g^eat musfc, although they were generally loo^d upon as noth ing more than simple plantation pli^ntation meTodies. America Must Belong To Al l LANGSTON HUGHES WRITERS CONGRESS TELLS stands'^ harmless, it affords xiared^ that “Al the people who lhate ^oeeveH, wbo hata aemo- short order. The ^ moral bones the students must gnaw otot in the world are hard and he needs teeth for fumming possibilities limited I It ta therr fore that tW* teething should cracy who love Nazism and Fascism are for Gamer—along with, of course thousand* of good people.^’ Secretary of the Interior Ickes put the'^sue pf a third term for Roosevelt squarely up to t h e American people. In an article in Look magazine, the fightin'fe go on. The average school wl3i its gum massa'^ing situations, .is a blessing to young Negrees who are learning to stand to gether. Teething, NEW YORK^“We w a America to really be America for everybody. Let us make it so I” Langston Hughes, famed poet and playwright, declared at the. opening aession^f the Third American Writers Con gress at Carnegie Hall, this city. Hughes preceded the statement quoted above with a declaration that he spoke “firs^ as a Negro an3 a writer, and (ieeotf«*rUy >eeij|it ’• Negtoes Bn American- are secondary American*.” The Congrees, called by the League of Aimerican llt^ritars, was attended by 'SOO writer* Ita- cluding Hug!ie», Richard Wright, Sterling Brown and other well known Negro Writers It registered emphatie endorse* —nf t.Vic r>«al awJ fltin ed ^‘the closest cooperation of j the United States with the [Soviet Union,*1Ti-ance and Great n t »riUin.” 'Another resolutioia announced '‘the intention of the Leigue’s membership to intensify the encouragement on the part of the League of participation by Negro writers,” In his address, Hughes allud ed to his representing the Lea gue at writers congresses held ,j»oad. in jParis ah4_ in Spain. He continued: “Europe I spoke srfpport for r positive peace policy based on resi«taaca to ag gression, and eond*ma#d the destruction of culture by fas cism. A resoWERn on peace urg- tigft >« ao Awiarican~"anJJ1I3L writer, and secondarily as a Ne gro. Tonight, llere in New York at the Thtrd American Writers’ Congress, I feel it wise in t h e interest ot dwaocrafiyv^to, rever ie. the order, and to s$eak first as a Negro and a writer, and secondarily as aa lAmeriran— because Negroes are secondary iMmerioane. All the problMsF known to the Jews today in Hitler’s Germany, we who are Negroes know here in Democra CentiaiMid ea page five /I
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