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THE UNC NEWS
Thursday, August 10, 1961
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Leave Racial Solution
To Heirs Of Problem
Chicago, the home of many of
the 'Freedom Riders' who de
scended on the South, has recent
ly been rocked by sporadic out
bursts of racial violence. Several
people were injured and one-16-year-old
Negro boy was shot to
death in the July riots.
It all started when 92 Negroes
were left homeless by a fire. The
Red Cross set up temporary re
fuge for them in the Holy Cross
Lutheran Church, but a white
mob drove them from the church
while 4 score of Chicago police
watched,1 making no effort to
break op the threatening crowd.
The .-homeless Negroes were
driven jfrom the Church, but this
has not ended the trouble. Four
white men later dragged a Negro
from his car and beat and rob
bed him. A 69-year-old white man
was beaten with chains, and a
Negro - youth died of a bullet
wound he received while walk
ing home from summer school
classes.
The senior Senator from Mis
sissippi has, of course, demanded
that the Justice Department in
tervene in this touchy situation.
Alabama editors, who denounced
Kennedy for intervening in Mon
gomery, now insist that he send
troops to Chicago; and Chicago
editors, who lectured eloquent
ly on the Montgomery race riots,
are suddenly intensely concerned
with the affairs of North-west
Tibet.
However, the great majority of
Southern newspapers have for
feited this chance for editorial
revenge, and almost completely
ignored these disorders. This is
rather surprising, especially when
one considers the headlines that
Northern papers habitually devote
to racial violence in the South.
This policy of refusing to in
dulge in futile finger-pointing is
probably a wise one. Certainly
there is too much dirt under cur
own nails to be pointing a finger
at Chicago. By leaving the solu
tion to the heirs of the problem, .
we can set them a good example,
one by which they might profit,
and permit the South to concen-.
trate on its own very real racial
problems.
Charles Heatherly
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ood Brutus struck him,' when he
explained, "What! You . too, Bru
tes !" and disdained further fight.
If this be true, he must have been
an incorrigible comedian. Bernard
Shaw .
MONKEY
I don't want my daughter or any
body's daughter having to read a
book which puts a picture of a
monkey on the same page with the
picture of a man. Governor of
North . Carolina in 1924.
Plight Of Virginia Students...
The group of Negro students
from Prince Edward County, Vir
ginia brought here Tuesday a
week ago by the Young Men's and
Women's Christian Association
composed a cross-section of color
ed students in that county and
from them it was learned just
how bad the situation there really
is.
Mrs. Helen Baker explained the
affair well when she said, "This
is not "indolence: this is a mis
carriage of justice!"
Long before the racial issue be
came a local concern, the white
population of Prince Edward
County decided the action which
they would take in the event that
it did become local. And thus, in
1957 when the court order came to
integrate, quietly but quickly the
public schools, both colored and
white ,were closed and private
facilities were immediately estab
lished to accomodate the WHITE
students.
One of the Prince Edward
County students visiting here
Tuesday described the closing of
the schools in the following man
ner: "We were all called into an
assembly on the last day of school
and the principal told us that as
a result of the court order to inte
grate, the public schools would
not reopen in the fall. It was
really a sad experience. We were
not happy and excited as students
usually are on the last day of
were
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school; but rather, we
happy and distressed
thought that we would not come
back the next fall. The future
seemed uncertain."
For the past two years, white
students in this county have been
attending private schools. Ac
cording to, the "Southern School
News", the Prince Edward Coun
ty Board of Supervisors adopted a
budget this year with no provision
for public schools; however, "The
budget did include $285,000 for
educational purposes in further
ance of the elementary and sec
ondary education of children re.
siding in Prince Edward County
in private, non-sectarian schools."
During this same period of
time, Prince Edward County Col
ored students have received only
a compromise in terms of educa
tion. Through the efforts of the
Virginia Teachers Association and
the American Friends Society, at
tempts have been made to give
the most qualified students an op
portunity to continue their educa
tion. :
There was strong feeling a
mong members of the group es
pecially among those who had
been out of school altogether, that
they would not return to school
on a segregated basis even if the
schools were opened as such.
They explained that their sacri
fices would have been in vain if .
the 1957 status quo was restored.
In 1958, a colored Prince Edward
County storekeeper told a News
week corespondent, "We would
like to have some voice in our
own schools. Right now no Negro
has anything to say about how
this county is run." Fifty-five per
cent of the county's 15,000 resi-,
dents are colored.
Obviously, the truth which
Thomas Jefferson said that we
hold to be self-evident are not so
self?evident after all. Can we
really say truthfully that human,
equality exists in America, the
Great and Bountiful? Since Jef
ferson did not indicate specifical
ly with respect to what all men
are created equal, some individ
uals attempt to maintain that
White means equal to God and
Black to beast. No, not even in
America are all men created
equal. Neither are they born to
equal opportunities nor are they
given equal chances to develop
their potential abilities.
No longer is the racial issue
small enough so that we may
keep it out of sight. Now we must
turn our face toward the darken
ed wall of Aristotle's cave where
the truth cannot penetrate with its
painful sting of reality. Or else
we must corect the injitice.
which is being done to these andl
many other Americans. j