to mostly is this segregation ques.
(ton. And to touch Hghtiy on that
■object tor a moment I will in
form you of * few experiences
(bat a southerner faces in the
north. *
To begin with I think that it is
a great injustice to the young peo
ple of the north that they have
been so mlsiafohned all these
many years as to what the situa
tion is in the southern states, and
3 might add that a great majority
of these start in the public schools.
Here is a typical example of what
I mean. Recently I came in con
tact with a girl who is a high
school senior, one of the' first
tills (and very repulsive to say
the least), “Mr. Surles, why are
the negroes so mistreated in ttie
South, why aren’t they given an
equal chance with the rest of the
people?” Now Jack, that is a ques
tion that I have beqn ashed be
fore and one which brings out the
itenon in me. r
To say that I have an answer
to the above question is saying it
mildly. In the first place the per
son who generally ask this ques
tion is completely misinformed
that it is pitifuL Another observa
very poor conception of our Ameri
can history and what it stands for,
and this: 1 think can be traced
partially to the way of1 the so,
balled progressive teaching today.
During the war Jack, 1 know
that you lived sound N. Y. C. long
enough to see and realize that
they have as much segregation
here as we do down south. In my
which
lowed made me still more proud
of my southern heritage.
, This colored woman informed
me thait she was bom and raised
around Winston-Salem, received
her college education- in N. t£. and'
also became a registered nurse in
the same state. Her husband —
N. Y. born — was informed by her
in my presence that colored col
lege students were a ddme-a-dozem
in N. C. She stated that under no
circumstances would .she become
> a member Of the National Associa
tion for colored people as she was
convinced that it yras a RED or
ganization.
This same woman told me that
she Was informing^ ail Of her co
lored friends up here that they
were grossly misinformed as to
/what the conditions are in the
south. So you can quite readily see
that it is indeed a small group
who are causing a great deal of
the trouble.
There'hafve been times- in these
mkX
■vr~. jut-, ,1 ly-T' i
tt*n teHfng * little of the opposite
«***> Thi* past week On Jfc Y.
p«Sy New* brought out certain
«ct* to State's Rights
® iot of people dj_
ierttcS- the theme was relative to
Inb MCtea not being given the
ri ght to prosecute communist —
another recent decision by our
estate. Supreme Court. I sincerely
hope that the people will realise
that It the Supreme Court can
destroy, states fights in one thing
that nothing else will be sacred
insofar as the 48 states are con
cerned. I also hope the NAACP
win realize this.
When jam get down to the basic
facts, this whole thing is a politi
cal football. In this both major
parties are equally guilty, since we
all know that the average poli
tician is an opportunist. He will
proanise the world to get elected
and after that he passes the
•‘buck” for the remainder of the
time in office.
I was wondering also if you had
seen or heard of the survey that
the New York Times made through
the south a short time ago. Since
I’m sure you know the paper,v they
gut out a special edition a few
weeks ago, eight pages to be exact;
There was a so-called report from
all the southern states. This was
in conjunction with their regular
Tuesday edition. When I' read
sqme.of these reports I was won
dering in several places where
they gpt their Information or who
they Were talking to. - ,
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