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% ON THE INSIDE Here’s Read What a Union Can Do My Story To pisee Lick Jim one Crow oe “Creeping _L By PAUL ROBESON Story of Health In Georgia Pareoia ie SOG Reet eee heed maa dad by Edward Nekon, p. 7 in my mind and in fact “Our Children Grow Father- T was a part of a large farnliy, less"—a' Harrington enrtoon tamlly to, whieh 1 “famiiy Vol. 1, No. 4 April, 1951 18 eo 10¢ A Copy Past 4 from ‘stretched Harlem out : ‘ te wasninsion, Supreme Court Bars Vital : Richmond, North. === Caro: State's Case Against Negro people lived and ===: struggled, Based on Blackmail, when from my travels I saw Be raitecnt rkosla 1 learn Dramatic new evidence that could save the life of Willie McGee, sentenced to die in Mississippi thelr languages and began to. on a framed “” charge, was turned down late in March by the U.S. Supreme Court. This evidence sing the folksongs of the has also been effectively blue penciled out of the major press and blocked off the air waves. Ber an FREEDOM in an interview with Mrs. Rosalee McGee, 29 year old wife of the framed man, tells the Hebrew and others true story that made the highest court in the land turn away and stuff cotton in its collective ear: T loved the peoples’ songs “They say my husband ae oy Giana reated through more the at ages. home Taped Willametta ; Hawkins. ‘nc, Wouldn't ahout her go. then I didn’t know with fai so these much than with so-called But I say if anybody was “A white wor art songs of individual com- paped, which there. wasn't, South, if she w posers, “And today T choose Taped» which there wasn’t, fan for herself, she don't care Those” individually, composed it was Willametta Hawkins jf he has a wife and children songs which are rooted in and raped Willie, not the other .F not. If he does what she Geeply remindtul of the folk : wants, she can holier rape; it tradition, way round. he doesn't, she can still hoiter I searched and_ searched, rape, If somebody else don’t listened and listened. I learned CLUSIVER Se that in music. whoever’ the holler rape. No way, can the composer,the base and firm Negro man win. and me, we were foundation was always f the Since S MoGee MeGee ‘was was falsely falsely. jeaying “Wille a small alley-strest gl bag agant convicted six years ago, his one evening. I hada hold to Bach—a name a working wife and his mother, Mrs. his arm. Avcar drove up. and man might run away from— Bessie McGee, have fought’an she was in it. She jumped out uch orale, as “A simple Muni Fortress ymin tunes! ASve" 7c, him nice froin Mississippl's grab his arm away. ‘That night ur God as his point of de; srength of tiie The bathe, deepening led by fe" how Wold it was, me We he sat whos on the Wie steps Parture, He gota little bored fhe Civil Rights Congress has In front of our house at the organ and began 10 siven the kind of courage to “I sald Twas lepving him dress them up with some fancy Eocice ‘McGee which women right then. T couldn't stard for Simple uns, up and chorale down, was but always the the Te ro inspired live under “double the big atand~ busi- mother. it. 1 told T him, told him, 1 will X wil tell your take most eau eis for ta" can Farely command. She And the same is teue fot Has tearned to speak openly of the me not children to do away. these things, He begged Bue every great composer. Yet the {ye degradation and humilla- I did go on and leave, t left Deople, the sources the earliest of our creators art, were Of tion for Negro which women are dally in experience the South. back more again. than’ ghee, X didn't bul under= came excluded from any real parti- ue it was a hard lesson sipation in the culture of te fegmn ana even how, after se¥- to stand what my ‘husband was rious communities. eral weeks of telling thls grim eaueht'in, feel my own at hurt Avot. 1 could Just Cie ould true story, Mrs. McGee's voice “When the trouble came out Iosphere not live in far some from rarefied the prob- at~ Sti "witiametia quavers as she Hawkins says Hawkins 4m the open husband, beeause Willam: “troy “got MRS. BESSIE McGEE is shown above as she attended a mesting Jems of the people. Certalni” wouldn't ive Wille alone She mad and breather almdst 0 in New Orleans, La, Merch 16, on Behalf of her framed son, Willa the singer or the actor. By i955 where he worked. He left rape, 'Then they dragged Willie Mrs. McGee has never stopped fighting during the past five years, the very nature of his “hiring” "hienty jobs trying to shake —intot. They went and got him for the life of her innocent son. he served someone. If he served sang her Pols off. tin He get went nny 48 far tran as Call: ber, one See night eons where he was Works fet Wonreisoturstion-he, ss y ig away. the the Negro ‘big concert people. If halls he sang of the in Pau Bee ity, ae he” fons and ee 4 ea ahead re ty ee Wulles.ect McGee Case in + Brief Bri nation he served the “big go out there. with him. Willle because herdidn't do what they Who is he? Willie McGee Is viction, at a new trial In Hat- folks,” If he sang houses, in the on com- the hegeedgo"“out me there and begged with him. me to Tsay say. And if 7 I aay say Shah that, wenton whe can a 30-year-old veteran and tlesburg, was again reversed, mercial picture e say aay sou, any ditterent different? whey They won't wOnte tralek truck driven driver ol of Laurel, Miss, ‘The The third third trial trial was still il om radio or in pictures, he was a erat tal know down father of four children. when attorneys, policy fart of of. the those. “bread who and circus” owned (ee , there. But T say It wherever -“ Wast was thé frameup? Mrs, threatened. by mob violence, these mediums to “Keep the : hs to the woman who has "Hey Hawkins white, claimed Bad tee people happy.” eon heen om married rie to lie illic McGee MeGee she $04s,"by.a was “raped” mien ine on Noy. ‘unit preme, What Coert? about It’ the atayed. U.S. Sus the clear ‘These to things me when were one becoming day in isthe way she shows her love with “kinky hair”—while a execution three times, bub beside her and her twice refused to review the bndion. T went out tn: thé: on picket carly Tatecies, lines to shows for him her the love ‘way by his fighting mother with child Husband slept slept in an adjoining case despite new evidence that every available veapon for hig room, McGee was arrested, Mrs. Hawkins had foreed Mc~ sing for workers in the have held’ incommunicado for 32 Gee to maintain intimate Eonditions. gle for better pay and working freedom. Played crucial ‘Three roles women. in the life days, tortured until he signed lations with her for several repudi- years on thteat of crying the T real turned allies to of the my workers people. as I Be te iids aa young rene Maer ‘Micsteipnt Be Nee ae a “confession” he later oe Bezan to sing for them, to act Rosalle McGee and Mrs, Willas Why three trials? At the What happens now? A new Hox ther, T pave up fo. years mtia Having, White supeem= fix eal 4m Laurel, the IH execution date wil be sit any as, Wing ean Wags tees 10 acy decrees that all of them cried “Guilty!” after two min- {ine The protest movement Seeatare th, Cronk Baal den in silence. But only one lynch mob waited outside; the must grow to a mighty Selb cdovelop: «working-class

Patterson Faces Burrs and Barbs Freedom’s Roundup Givil Rights News Around the Nation agrees a sme ma AO, Test in Trial LEGAL AND MANNERLY: Fire and dynamite are failing to drive On trial for defending the Negro residents away from their new homes in a formerly all- Bill of Rights. That's the case ‘white section of Atlanta. The house of the Glen Brooks family of William L. Patterson, execu- was dynamited after being set afire three weeks ago—on the tive secretary of the Civil heels of a declaration by a white vigilante committee that they Rights Congress who was ‘would drive Negroes from the area “in a legal and mannerly way.” forced to take time. off from fighting, for the lives. of the WHAT'S YOUR COLOR? In Brooklyn, N. ¥., last week, two Negro ‘Trenton Six, of Willie McGee, Policemen saved the life of a.white child who was choking on an ‘and defend himself from all-day sucker... . But a Negro baby died because Beth BI Hos- charges of “contempt”. of a pital told the frantic parents it was “impossible” to admit the Georgia supremacist and. the child. Lobbying Committee of the HELP WANTED—NURSES: While the nationwide shortage of House of Representatives. nurses continues acute, 15 Negro women employed at the Mil Patterson has the distine- ledgeville, Ga., state hospital as attendant nurses were ordered tion of being the first Negro in out of the wards to work in the fields. They quit in protest. U.S. history ever to be indicted ON THE ASH HEAP: The Army's pretense at for contempt of Congress. halting Jim Crow practices started out the window with the vote in the House Armed When he was called before Bervices Committee to let every draftee the committee in August,’ 1950, “choose” whether to serye in non-segregated Patterson charged that the units, The Pittsburgh Courier commented Civil Rights Congress was be- that Truman's directive to end discrimination ing harassed because. of its “apparently was just campaign material, militant reeord in. protecting President Truman has only to order the Sec- progressive political minorities retary of the Army to end all Jim Crow units and championing eases of civil ‘nd it will be done right down to the squad rights for Negroes. It was then at the height of its cam- level.” -palgn to save the lives of the DOWN WITH LEARNING: The entire public school system of ‘Martinsville 7, the Trenton 6 “Hello, Judge . . . con you get your jury together to convict South Carolina will be junked before segregation is ended, Gov. and Willie McGee. ‘another rope suspect tomorrow?” James F. Byrnes threatened. Cause of his blustering 1s a suit ‘That was when the famous to be argued May 28 in Charleston federal court asking an end “contempt” incident occurred. NAACP Demands Firing to segregation. Rep. Henderson Lovelace SYMPATHETIC: Assuring the solicitous school officials of Bl- Lanham of Georgia, acting mont, L. I, that she would indeed be “sympathetic to the prob- Of Civil Defense Head Jems” of the Negro students—because she was a Negro herself— chairman of the committee, Ught-skinned Mrs. Dorothy J. Brown was turned down for the screamed: “You're a god- A man of stature—that’s Millard F, Caldwell Jx., the teacher's job. Now she's back on the lst as a result of court damned iar!” new federal civil defense administrator—as the NAACP action. ‘When Patterson suggested sees him. “We are opposed to (Florida) Governor Cald- the Congressman, not he, was well’s appointment because he stands head and shoulders PASSPORT FOR PEACE: The State Dept. has revokéd the pass- lying, the enraged Dixiecrat above those who are leading a tremendous fight against port of another Negro champion of peace—Mrs. Therese L. lunged at the Negro witness human rights in the United Robinson of Washington, D. C., head of the Women’s Division yelling: “You god-damned States," sald an NAACP spokes- of Negro Elks. Her “offense”—attendance at the Warsaw Peace black son of » bitch!” and man testifying before a Senate SUPPORT MOUNTS Conference. Jater remarked: “We got. to ‘sub-committee, IN DuBOIS CASE STRICTLY HUNGER: “Problem children” in Negro schools turn keep the black apes down,” As the trial of Dr. W. E. B. normal when they're given a light lunch, it's been discovered in “He is not simply one“of the DuBois was postponed, pend= Charlotte, N.C. A 20-cent Iunch brings the hungry children Responding to a shocked privates in that group; I would ing argument April 20 on @ happily to school. “Many of these children are marked down as public opinion, 106 represen- say that he is one of the top motion to dismiss the charges, behavior problems simply because they are hungry,” a counsellor officers.’ support for the noted educator said. i This man who stands so mounted in the Negro com- high in Dixiecrat circles is munity. ‘THERE'S A WAR ON: The Administration is asking for $10 bil- now, by appointment of Presi- ‘The Pittsburgh Courier for Vion more in taxes to add to the $75 billion arms-swollen budget. dent Truman, in possession of ‘the past three weeks has run ;.. And in Harlem, the 110th Street Community Center is clos- tremendous ‘power he can numerous letters from readers ing for lack of funds, wield against the Negroes he supporting the _pro- DuBois despises, against workers on stand taken by its editor, Per- COLOR PROBLEM: CIO Pres. Philip Murray called for an FBI strike and defenders of peace eival L. Prattis, in his columns Investigation of the “serious violations of civil liberties” In Dub- throughout the country. But of Maren 3 and 10, lin, Ga. He referred to the Feb. 8 international union meeting his reputation for bigotry and In his March 3 column, broken up by the sheriff who “suspected communism” when brutality is such that the Prattis. said: he saw Negroes and whites meetthg together. When a cop sees NAACP has announced its in- “Now a government which Diack and white together, he sees red. tention of urging the whole hag found itself unable to pro- JIM CROW RELIGION: Dean H. B. Trimble, Chandler School of Negro people to withdraw from ~ tect the rights of an entire ‘Theology at Emory U. in Atlanta, decreed curtly: “There are no participation in. elvil defense People against criminal intru- plans afoot to admit Negroes to the school of theology.” This unless he is removed from his sion of a prejudiced majority followed a 234-12 vote by the students favoring their admission. ost. finds the means to HANDCUFP the man who has fought most LOYAL TO WHAT? James L. Hicks, Afro-American newsman ‘This is the man who, in tes- insistently for these rights. attending a “loyalty” hearing before the Railroad Retirement timony before the ' Senate “The handcuffs on DuBois Board on behalf of his friend Conrad Clark, was asked whether Armed Services Committee, in- are meant to serve as a GAG Olark should have marched in a parade which called for an end sisted that he reserved “the ‘on any Negro leadership ‘that to the KKK, lynching and poll tax, “What else was there for right, to address any person, 4s disposed to ‘shoot the works? me,” he said, “a colored man, to answer but ‘yes'?” whether he be a citizen of my for freedom. All Negroes who ‘TRENTON TEST: “The 10,000 colored citizens here look upon ‘William L. Patterson state or any other state, in speak for their people are go~ such manner as I please, and ing to find themselves weigh ‘the trial of the six suspects as a test of whether they shall be in accordance with my views,” ing their words carefully, and free of mass arrests by police whenever @ person of color is tatives voted against the con- And: what are his views? gircumspectly ‘choosing their sought in a .”—Afro-American. tenipt citation but it carried Clarence Mitchell, director of friends, WALLS TUMBLING?: Suits by several Negro applicants denied anyway and this week “Pat,” the NAACP Washington Bu- “These are indeed times that admission to the University of North Carolina led to recommen- as he is affectionately known reau, gave the sub-committee beckon to the Uncle Toms ation by the trustees’ executive committee to open the doors a picture of this white su- among us. There are whites to Negro students for the first time. The decision, if approved ‘to hundreds of co-workers, premacist: he has opposed Su- who wait for the word of com= by the full board April 4, would apply only to cases where equal went on trial. preme Court decisions on. the fort and satisfaction from self= school facilities are not provided for Negroes. That should mean ‘This brave representative of Tight of Negroes to vote and to serving Negroes. everywhere. his people, who dropped a atiend graduate and profes- “As in the past, these Uncle successful aw practice to de- sional schools; he refused to ‘Toms will seize the opportunity vote his untiring energies to prosecute those responsible for to belittle and impugn the the defense of civil rights, will a terrible lynching; he refuses leadership which is daring and be a tough adversary in court, the courtesy of. the ordinary courageous. He has behind him the réspect “Dear Mr. Jones” when ad- “But they must not prevail. and support of millions who dressing letters to constituents. ‘A thousand Negroes should rise stand in contempt of the men His appointment reveals the to take the place of DuBois, with the lashes who would tear whole anti-democratic nature and other thousands’ for all ‘up the Bill of Rights in order of Wall Street's war program ‘those others ‘the terror’ will to plunge the country into a and Truman’s phony “national oon clamp its ghost-like hands war for their profits. emergency.” upon.” 9 0m FREEDOM

UNITED ELECTRICAL WORKERS Negro Workers Gain New Jobs When Union Fights Jim Crow By ERNEST THOMPSON gress in the American labor Ernest Thompson is national movement." Our efforts to put United actions of Negro and it into effect have clashed ‘white workers in a union is the secretary of the UE Fair head-on with the intensified ‘most effective way of wiping Practices Committee Grive of white supremacists. out Jim Crow. Here's how it This drive, contrary to what was proved in a number of in- many people think, is intensi- stances, the first time at least made fying itself day by day and CLEVELAND, Ohio—Between promises. The locally organized threatens to wipe out those 80 and 50 Negro workers, large~ UE Fair Practices committee gains that have been made in ly women, have been hired at is pushing for action as well the fight for Negro rights, the General Electric plant as promises. In spite of the forces of re- following insistence of UE that Furthermore, a boycott action, we have made consid against the tavern using Jim rable’ progress in carrying out terms of a national agreement Crow practices has been insti- the ‘convention decisions and against discrimination be put tuted and the local union has the program of the great Chi- into operation. This plant has Joined a already filed cago Conference for Negro ‘been traditionally lily-white. against the restaurant owner Rights held a year ago June.

CHICAGO, T.—After de- for discriminatory practices, The key planks inthe Chi- mands by UE, the manage- ‘These acts—with indications cago program, in my opinion, ment of the Harvester Tractor of more to come—built unity in Works reached an agreement Local 112. And unity around ‘The model clause. NEGRO INDUSTRIAL WORKER. Men like this one are winniity new with the union on no discrim- jobs at high skills as a result of the anti-discrimination campaigns UE's progressive policies came © An all-out fight for the ination in upgrading and bid- just in time to turn back a raid hiring of Negro workers in of the Fe Practices Comm. of the United Electrical Workers Union, ding for open jobs. As a result launched on the shop by UAW ily-white shops. of a job-posting plan, the misleaders who use any dis- © Apprenticeship and job union has obtained jobs for a unity that may exist to further training opportunities in “all number of Negro workers at their raiding schemes. trades. World Attention on Trenton various skills such as precision ‘This case Mlustrates UE's na- © An intensified campaign grinding, mill wrights and tional program of fighting dis- for upgrading. Brings New Hope to the Six others. ‘unity in action. © A consistent day-by-day Aight for the civil rights of the ‘As the case of the ‘Trenton Six moves toward a climax in the SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Here ‘The program for Negro and Negro people. Mereer County courthouse, ace reporters of the Negro and world UE is engaged in one of its minority rights, adopted at We have conducted cam- press are filling the 336 press seats and recording proceedings most significant fights against our convention last September, paigns on every one of these of one of the most talked-about Governor Driscoll” discrimination. ‘The large and was itself a landmark of pro- Dlanks whteh have had a sig- trials in the State's history. ‘One of the defendants, John important Local 112 was facing hificant effect on all our mem- Josephine Baker's appear- ‘McKenzie, a war veteran, had dangerous inner disunity. bers ance at the trial focused at- seen “Miss Baker entertain ‘The reason: some 800 of the For the Negro worker it has tention on the prosecution's while he was hospitalized ocal’s 2,000 members are Ne~ meant a new opportunity to Ditter-end to frame abroad during World War I. gro, Justifiable grievances of fight for economic equality the six Negro victims on a MoKCenzie is reported to have these workers included failure tiumped-up charge, of the local union leadership with effective machinery As described by Ralph H. “We all got a great lift out to understand and act on such backed up by the whole union. Jones of the Baltimore Atro- of seeing Miss Josephine Baker, issues as discrimination in hir- This has brought forward ‘American, “Miss Baker went in, She gave us great cheer and ing against Negro women by many new Negro leaders on the shook the hands of each de- hope in this case.” the Oliver Plough Co. and General Executive Board, on fendant, and told them to rampant Jim Crow policies in istrict and local levels. keep hoping and praying be- restaurants and taverns in the To the white worker, the cause the eyes of the world area of the local union office— program has brought a greater were upon their trial” Sam Sage Says including the very building Fealization of the devastating Miss Baker's visit was where the office is located. effect of Jim Crow and division matched by the appearance of A young English-educated When the UE National Fair fon all workers. an unidentified Negro woman West African recently was Practices committee entered UE's participation in the who appeared in the doorway this situation, we had these cases of Tt. Gilbert, the Mar- of the courtroom and shouted: United Nations for self- linsville 7, "Willie McGee and government with an old grievances brought forth clear- the ‘Trenfon 6 has further "Glory to God, those boys are Chief, The Chiet’s signature Ty and with thelr full im- cemented the unity of our Ne- not guilty!” was needed on the docu- portance. fro and white members in the ‘The woman, who later de- ‘The result: management has lnion’s fight against discrim- seribed herself as an evangelist “Is this the kind of inde- een approached on its hiring Ernest ‘Thompson ination. and a member of the House of pendence like Americans practices and, to date, has for Prayer of Bishop C. M. (“Dad~ Speak of in their Declara- dy”) Grace of Philadelphia, tion of Independence?” the continued, “Woe unto all of you people. ‘The blood of those Chiet asked, > Trade Unionist Poses a Question: boys will. be on your hands.” “Yes,” answered the ‘The Afro reporter described younger the United man, Nat “we are asking the effects of her visit on the up our cause.” Shall We Campaign for Defense Jobs? defendants. “Ralph Cooper “If they believ reached for his handkerchief Should. Negroes campaign for stem is for Negroes and the Negro be a traitor to the and wiped tears from his eyes. tion, they will give us job opportunities. in the other is for the “superior race.” freedom-loving people in Asin Collis English blinked back pendence?” the older man equal “defense” and the world over if we would asked skeptically. nation’s so-called So, the question is: when the tears and Horace Wilson bowed “That is what the United plants? Negroes are encouraged to ac~ give up the struggle for free- hhis head as if in prayer.” Nations Charter says,” came This problem has been sharp~ cept or to fight for detense jobs dom for a system that has op- As Miss Baker left, accord- the answer, ly posed to the editors of — ‘what are we defending? pressed us for over 300 years; ing to Jones, she said: “At this “Tl sign it for you to take FREEDOM jin a letter from @ ‘Should the American Negro be or would we make a contribu- time the eyes of the world are to them,” said the Chief, Southern Negro labor leader. encouraged to give up a prin- tion by boycotting the war uupon America. ‘This must be reaching for the document, The letter follows. Because of ciple in Which millions of work- preparation against freedom? stopped! I am going to cail on “but 1 don’t believe freedom the important questions. which ers are not only sacrificing and liberty is ever given.” it raises, FREEDOM invites the their jobs but their lives for a There was 9 pause, and he ‘reactions of its readers. few nasty dollars? added—“Freedom is alway What dogou think? Write a Now, why I call the Amert- Freedom Associates ; itken, never given” letter to the editor and. we'll can dollar nasty is that when After the Chief signed the Keep the discussion going om it enters a Negro’s hands he 53 West 125th Street, New York 27, N.Y. Tel. EN 9-3980 petition, he placed a father- this page. cannot spend it where he wants 1 Please find enclosed one dollar ($1.00) for one annual ly hand on the younger to and he is discriminated man’s shoulder and advised What are we defending? What against while trying to spend subscription to him earnestly: “You should Js the purpose of the defense it just because his skin is black. read carefully the American plant? Is the defense plant's ‘Phe talk today is about the FREEDOM Declaration ‘of Independ- Purpose to free and liberate American Way of Life. Do we, Also enclosed find $...... +++. in support of the pro- ence. You find there the people of Asia or to ‘American Negroes, want to sive gram of Freedom Associates. ‘that freedom is like a cold. give Negroes freedom here in im Crow, lynching and segre- shower—if you allow a littie America? gation, and are we satisted of the cold water to spray. ‘We have two economic, social with this American Way of ‘NAME (Print) you it will chill you. A ‘and political systems. within Life? ick plunge into it and it is) the framework of one consti- What is the war preparation stimulating. Freedom is just tution and within the feame- for? it is to maintain these Gig one No, Seate Tike that” work of one republic, One sys Urings, Would the American

FREEDOM a Our Children Grow Fatherless! Paul Robeson’s Great Truth (Ay GREAT TRUTH is indestructible Tvl men may for: bid its utterance, may try to stifle it with falsehood. But the truth will stand. Because trut® is the image of reality, and cannot per- manently be hidden from the people. Copernicus said the earth is round. ‘They burned Copernicus. But the earth is round. Lincoln said slavery would have to go. They killed Lincoin, But slavery went. Paul Robeson said it was unthinkable that the Negro people of the United States or elsewhere in the world could be drawn into a war with the Soviet Union. They have sent thugs against Robeson and tried to cut off his liveli- hood, But two years later, the truth he spoke in Paris still stands. WHAT EXACTLY is Robeson’s truth? From the past, Robeson drew the great historical truth that the struggle of peoples for freedom is invincible. ‘The struggle may be halted for a time, and the clock turned backward. Toussaint L’Ouverture died in a French prison. They hanged Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner_and Denmark Vesey. They turned Africa into a slave-warren, and exterminated a hundred million Africans. From the present, Robeson knew that the struggles for freedom go on in the United States, in the West Indies, and in Africa. When he spoke in Paris to the great meeting of fight- ers for peace, Robeson had just obtained fresh eye-witness evidence of this. He had seen the great. struggles for jobs, for the right to vote, for equal justice and equal school and health facilities in the United States. He had seen the fight for decent wages and representation in government by the peoples of the West Indies, He had talked at length—a few hours before he spoke—with African students, who told him, “Speak for us, too!” ‘And, looking into the future, Robeson saw that these struggles were fusing, merging into one gigantic struggle for freedom in which the peoples of Asia and Latin America would also play a part.

Here was an important aspect of reality which cried for expression in words—the flowing together of numerous currents of struggle into one mighty stream. Here they are, fighting side by side—the Chinese, Indonesians, Afri- Here’s My Story cans, West Indians and the fifteen million Negroes of the United States. By Paul Robeson (Continued from Page 1) citizenship. grave responsibility to impose | ~ culture jn the full meaning of . And as T approach another the peace upon our own home- WHY WAS IT “unthinkable” that these peoples, in- enn birthday I think of the close bred would-be destroyers. a - cluding us Negroes, should be drawn into a war against ties of the Negro people with ‘The people of America are the Soviet Union? can save thelr 4 I knew I was fighting for my tens of thousands of honest the power, They people, the Negro people. Most American ‘This was the truth the billionaires and their politicians white working peo- all means land if the they saving will, of But every this 4 J * considered “.” But treason to whom? of them were working people ple and courageous liberals like these English workers, like over this land, North, South, precious life—of Willie McGee, ‘Treason to the fifteen million Negroes of the U.S. A.? the Welsh miners I knew so Bast and We of the Trenton Six. It means = ~ Of course not. On the contrary, the anti-Soviet war drive well, I tied all this together. I FOR us in Harlem this close- preserving the liberties and gs forged a new coalition of Dixiecrats and Northern Re- saw the same British aristoc~ ness, this extension of the freedom of those who are most publicans, has unleashed a reign of police terror and spurred racy oppressing essing white white Bnelish English, ainily? was demonstrated at Teady, to sacrifice for the the'legal lynching of Negro workers, has killed FEPC and Welsh and Scoteh workers and Peekskill. There 25,000 people, . “family.” a” carried Jim Crow to Korea and Germany and everywhere African and West Indian sea- white and colored, stood to: AYE must, not let them be 9q.- else the United States armed forces go. we e te eee American gether ina liberties: real defense the of tight our to lead sacrificed. us and give We us need strength. them 4 ‘This was Paul Robeson’s great truth—that freedom ‘Then two years ago in Eng- of assembly, of free speech, the So we must save the eleven will not be served by war against the Soviet Union, that tand’T ad’ the pleasure ef Tint of, the Newto people to leaders of the American works Mh freedom can only be won by peace. ot wonkers, One was headed bY defied the ii Kluncre’ and DoBole and Witla Patterson Wl = This is the great historic truth of our times—destined ‘Mrs. George Thompson, wife of would-be lynchers and again If we do we save thousands, i to endure in the material realization of the hopes and ieading tosking-clas schol, Tcl mysel a, part of & year millones becaue, we ree Why prayers of the Negro peoples of the world. This truth is indestructible. Gaase ‘Greens Isa took” and power the! head “and. vey OF af Freedom and peace are indivisible, {ieee inotion plefure unile and. ,,7%¥-were all Beotion pre- Teast “ot the whe MM

sciously to the problems and couia understand and act The forces of progressive gy ~ welfare TERME of thelworkors; the working wot masses, thous NBM Spon. Ths this “America America ‘wante'alberalla have the power, It i ‘wants a liperallom, ave the power, fi who deprived the workers of yp without fear. It wants them move the. majority of the ; the fight to participate in to grow ‘up in-a, land »which and American friendship people which to the they peace so

knows*no. poverty, ‘slums and ain W511 (1 ODAY I feel a close part of Jim. Crow oppression; a land obvjously and ‘clearly desire. Leeman the family of the Negro peo which Tecognizes. a world in AM of these deep belief ex= ple here in America among change, .. world of different plain my statement on behalf Wom Twas born, and 1 feel ways of life; @ land which re- of peace in Paris two years Pblished monthly by Freedom Associstes my cousins in At- fuses to sactifice. its precious Siowe also to ago,.explain my hopes and my 53 West 125th Street, New York 27, N.Y. Phone: ENvight 9-3980 flea’ andthe ‘West Indies and youth to the folly and -greed daily labors. T am not: making EDITORIAL BOARD: PAUL ROBESON, Chairmen Eatin-Ameriea, 1a. iso" feel of the. few but. powerful. in- great sacrifices which- need Revels Ceylon, Shirley Grehom, Alphecus Hunton, rtf many peoples ofall col- heritors of the. robber-baron, fanciful. explanation. Tam Bis throughout the world who 1 Bangster-imperialist tradition simply fulfilling my-obligation titres ‘Héliee: LOUIS: BURNHAM Generel Manager: GEORGE B: MURPHY, mow have a common ‘bond of American life, as sbest.T can and>know: how, Mts the “American Negro Such ‘an ‘America will gladly to the human ‘family-to whieh Oe pee copy; sebscription rate> $1.00 peer: eople, in our atte for full and courageously aseume "ite 1 proudly. belong. seh

FREEDOM ages Alexander Woolcott's HAPPY BIRTHDAY, , PAUL ‘ita “OF the countless totaly people | have ; i ‘ known mecsing April not 9 oly is Poul tthe Robeson’s media birthday. hobxon It is @ Tony, day for fa celebrating neesnghy on ecm event which eed hos rich hehe in be my “ ef wandering The a fe over world. For Foul Robeson is the tallest tree in our forest. He is the foremost spokesmon of our Saye canner | gy thot they deepest hopes ond fondest aspirations. FREEDOM wants to tell Poul HAPPY BIRTHDAY for YOU. Reve greatness. | de not mean Eyen though the greeting may be 6 little late, why don’t you drop him @ line ond let him know S°°etMess @s « footboll ployer or 2. Nowa how we a all feel Sod obout bet te him. Just send your greeting to Poul Robeson, FREEDOM, 53 West 125th a °f fom net, 0% ctor I think, or ae confusing @ singer. his | « 5 j personal quality with his heroie Ae stoture. | do not even have in a. mind whot ie, | suppose, the in- disputable feet, thot he is the a. best. musical instrument wrought = by nature in our time. 1 meon a greatness os « person, 4 a Phin “In his case | despair of ever i> Eases putting into convincing words my notion of whis quality in him. * | > BASEBALL: Robeson cought on con soy only thot by whot he = the boseboll team ot Rutgers. does, thinks ond is, by his un =: assoilable dignity, ond his serene, incorruptible simplicity, Pow! au Robeson strikes me os having Po been made out of the original stuff of the world, In this sense ee is he coevel with Adom and the redwood trees of Celifornia, He a x is @ fresh act, @ fresh gesture, 4 fresh effort of creotion. | om ie proud of belonging to his roce. FAMILY GROUP. With his wife, Eslanda Goode Robeson, ond son Paul Jr., ot their home in En- For, of a: field, Conn. Mrs. Robeson is an outstanding author, lecturer ond expert on African-colonial affoirs, members course, we both -ore 1 Poul’ Jr, @ graduate of Cornell, now teaches electrical engineering in @ Gl school, of the one. sometimes fulsomely described os humon.” 5

FOOTBALL: Robeson was twice chosen es All-American end. Ry

U.S.0. TOURS. Robeson ond Lawrence Brown (right), lifelong 4 friend and accompanist, os they toured European bottleticids enter- d taining U.S. and allied troops in 1944. They mode 32 appearances 4 in Germany, Czechoslovakia ond France end were greeted by some of the lorgest GI audiences of the war.

~ BASKETBALL: He ployed center end also won a letter in track.

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‘A PUBLIC SPEAKER. Eyer. since winning oratoricol honors at Rutgers, Robeson hos used his mighty voice to speck out against the. oppression of his people. “Whenever five workers are-gathered together,” he: soid once, “I wont to be there ond talk with them.” VALEDICTORIAN: Phi Beto + ACTOR.» In-e king run os Othello, Robeson was hoiled by critics. as, cteating the port for, the first time os Shakespeare had intended. it. 3

Page 6 < FREEDOM aR NEN oa Seem "AFRIC ; ASIA - CARIBBEANS - LATIN AMERICA) sino vee on News of Colored Peoples in Other Lands omsnonsumo mame sense Gold Coast Africans Passes Demanded Global Briefs Joined at the city limits by By Africans INDIA of cheering sup~

thousands . Win Popular Victory White South African news- N. ¥, Times for March 29 re~ porters, the miners marched sounded screams of ported doings of a handful of to the President's palace and papers 4 February 12th, Lincoin’s minority Include nine white alarm the other day. Huge “intellectuals” in Bombay. stood there shouting “Justice!” Birthday, was a great day of members (three official and headlines read “Armed Natives Main activity of the less than No one appeared. The miners rejoleing’ for the four million six representing the Chambers ‘Threaten Officials” and the 50 delegates to the “Indian have now set up camp on the Africans—and a day of em- of Commerce and Mines), most accompanying stories described Congress for Cultural Freedom” outskirts of the city, deter harrassment and humiliation of the rest haying been noml- with horror an incident which turned out to be shouting mined to stay put until their for the British overlords—in nated by councils of tribal took place in the suburbs of themselves hoarse on the “evils strike demands are met. the West African colony known chiefs. Johannesburg. of communism.” Among those ‘as the Gold Coast. It was the ‘The CPP was given » major present was little-known JAMAICA, WEST INDIES. leader Africans American Negro, Dr. Max Yer- union leaders here es- day Kwame Nkrumah, ity of six of the 11 seats in the Seems that four who travelled all those ‘Trade of the Convention People’s cabinet, three of which are actually stopped a white offi- gan, Crow timate that 250,000 Jamaicans, Party (CPP), jailed last year reserved for whites; it de~ a revolver on miles away from ole Jim fone out of every six, are un- for and of mands all eight seats for Af- cial's car, held to take his place on the employed, It is expected that an illegal strike, was released ticans, although declaring that him, and told him to stop mourner’s bench. Dr. Yergan many of them will be drained from prison as a result of the the whole thing is a arresting Africans for possess- saw the light and joyously tes~ off for contract farm labor— ‘sweeping victory won by his since the cabinet ministers ing stolen or forged work tifled to “the advance of the at starvation wages—in the party in the national elections have portfolios but no power. passes. The Africans claimed Negroes’ status in the United United States, as was the case held four days earlier. organization States as evidence of that with 50,000 Jamaicans during To fully appreciate the CPP's to belong to an country’s depth of soul and in- World War II. Jamaica’s pov- Nkrumah’s countrymen, hav- victory, it must be remembered that was helping Africans now nate spirituality.” THOUGHT: erty can't be eradicated as long ing registered their‘ over- driven out of white When he gets back from India, depen- whelming endorsement of the ‘that full payment of taxes was being sand on as it remains a colony CPP's campaign for “Self-Gov- a requirement for eligibility to urban centers. “Africans must the Doctor might ent upon one export, vote, that each candidate had have the passes in order to down to Mississippi, tie the sugar. The cane field planta- ernment Now,” immediately cities. ‘knots up tight in his head rag, tions spell riches for the big demanded their leader's re- to post a bond of £50 ($140), ‘secure work in the and tell Negroes there how planters and foreign specula- Tease, And the Governor dared and that only the five muni- the four “spiritual” i is in Dixie! But tors, but misery for the plan- not say no. He remembered the cipal members were directly ‘Newspapers linked he'd betier remember to carry tation workers who get only ts of three years ago and with an underground organt- his running shoes with him! four to how it was necessary to sum- elected by African voters—33 zation, suspected of including $1.10 to $1.50 a day for mon naval vessels aiid addi- representatives of rural consti- who six months a year. whites and Africans, MEXICO tional troops from outside the tuencies being chosen by a both the AFRICA territory in order to “restore election, have allegedly been selling Mexico City late last montn SOUTH order” when the people's anger process of indirect for several years to saw one of the most dramatic ‘The Malan Government’s re- and 37 others being nominated passes in search in its Tong cent nazi-like move to deprive was aroused, of tribal chiets. hundreds of Africans demonstrations strik- the Colored voters of thei Alter that the British played by couneils of employment: Detectives have history. Forty thousand a stiff wall of re~ Incidentally, all of the non- unable to close ing miners, accompanied by ights met March a crafty game in the Gold CPP candidates in all four apparently been wives and children, turned up sistance in Cape Town, Coast, conceding the adoption municipalities polled together in on the organization because in mass at the cily’s border. 8. Africans, Indians, ' Malays. of a new constitution framed “jeaders are so well protected ‘They had walked 850 miles and liberal’ whites all joined less than a quarter of the votes screen of agents mines near the U.S. bor- together with the threatened one mu- from by an all-African but safely east for Nkrumah in by a trained their griev- Coloreds in a tremendous pro- conservative committee, und nicipality, Accra. that they have eluded all to present Aleman. test parade and mass meeting. seeking to bring forward “mod ‘You' can gauge the effect of traps! to President erate” African leadership allied the election on certain circles in Africa, England, and the with the tribal chiefs. But the United States by the following people flocked instead to the self-revealing and self-damn- Reply Will Be—‘Wait!” militant leadership of the CPP, ing comments. In South Africa Today Our organized in June 1949, which —Malanite newspapers blus- Gabriet a’Arboussier is a leading fighter for attacked the new constitution’s tered about “this impossible freedom and world peace. He holds a limitations. monster of a parliamentary ‘African Peace Cowncil as one of election,” labeled it “a joke nigh post in the World and is secretary-general ‘The government next re- a farce,” and warned that He foe vice-presidents, Union embracing two sorted to wholesale jailing of ‘wpoctrinaire British liberalism, Of the Ajrican Democratic Ajrican colonies CPP and trade union leaders, which has now reached such Shilton members in the French Department ‘and the muzzling of progres- f terrifying climax, is a danger below the Sahara. The U.S. State to tell sive opinion. The repression to white Africa!” has barred him from visiting this country boomeranged. The CPP swelled ‘Americans about the African peoples’ struggle rapidly in strength and jnflu= ‘The proponents of Anglo- for freedom. Following are excerpts, from the ence, and the party became the Saxon domination don’t like Speech by dArboussier, at the mecting of the dominant force in the country. what happened in the Gold first session of the World Peace Councit held So the victory at the polis Coast. These lying distortions recently in Berlin. ‘was not unexpected. Neverthe~ fare essential to the preserva- Numerous facts in our countries of Black less, the enemies of African tion of thele kind of world. Africa prove that war preparations are already freedom were staggered by the But it’s in vain that they strive militating against the people's greatest aspira~ landslide for the CPP. The to self-determination. We see control of 46 out to make history stand still. The tion—the right and our rights sup- party claims forces of freedom in Africa how liberty is being stifled the Of B4 seats In the new Legis- advance. pressed. In the economic sphere, we see lative Council. The non-CPP and Asia continue to seizure of our raw materials, which tends to increase the poverty of our working population. Lastly, our countries are being made to supply troops, notably for the war in Viet-Nam. ‘And so each time a colonial or dependent people protests against the suppression of its Hberties, it is fighting for peace. Each time it raises its voice against the plunder of its raw material resources, and demands that its coun- Viet-Nam, in a peaceful way. tay be industrialized, it is fighting for peace. ‘These sentiments were expressed also im Each time a nation’ protests against the re- the Assembly of the French Union by M cruiting of troops or demands the returnjof such Hazoume, a Catholic representative from Da troops to thelr native land, it is fighting for homey. Indignant at the evasive replies given demands of the peoples of Black Africa, peace. . « to the wars when you | Who can fail to sce today that the strategy he said: “In the last two world we mass bombings and the employment of atom needed us we replied ‘Ready.’ Today, when of countries in the same situa- ask you to grant our obviously just’ demands, bombs places ali circles in you reply ‘Wait.’ I warn you that in the event That is why in the most diverse tion? are gaining ground fof another war, if you ask us to take part im our country, sentiments that express the refusal of colonial and depen- it, our reply will be ‘Wait.’” Gent peoples to take part in any aggressive ‘That, it seems to me, is the way the key war, no matter what its form may be. ‘question of the participation of colonial and ‘These sentiments were volced, for example, dependent peoples in the battle for peace SOUTH AFRICANS are shown lining up outsi tthe pass offices in in the French National Assembly by | M. ‘stands, Their participation cannot be separated Johannesburg for their service . Without them they are Senghor, a Catholic deputy from Senegal, who from their struggle for the right to self-de~ ‘not allowed to enter the city to work or attend to their personal af- demanded that the French government recog- termination, their profoundest and most cher= fairs, They often spend os much as two doys waiting for passes. ‘nize People’s China and settle the conflict with, ished aspiration,

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Baker Wows Crowds, Backs Freedom Fight By YVONNE GREGORY groes Into some swanky club tune. I wish some of these ‘big’ ‘The middle-aged man was in Miami, Florida, Negroes who are always run- Gressed in his working clothes. “Yes, she speaks up. Some- ning their mouths about how He twisted his cap in his body told me she even wrote fine life is in America for us hands. His face lit, up with sur- a letter against what they did would do halt as much as prise, delight and pride, and, to those seven Negroes in Mar- Josephine Baker. as he heaved a great sigh of tinsville, Virginia, and she sent ‘Most recent example of “La Satisfaction he said to no one bouquet and a’ beautiful let- Belle Baker's” concern for the in particular and to the world ter to the wife of that man fate of her 18 million fellow at large: they've got jailed for nothing ‘American Negroes was her visit, ‘There's no one like her, all down in Mississippi. McGee, I to the courtroom in New Jer- right. You can see why she was. think Inis name is.” sey where the lives of six men ‘the toast of Europe for 20 ‘ho have become known as the years. I'm proud of her!” Artist Unafraid renton Six" are on. trial At the stage door entrance This is a nutshell sample of Framed for “murder,” these there was a good-sized crowd. the way her people have wel- young Negroes have spent the ‘Most of the people were Ne eomed home Josephine Baker, last three years in jail. Miss groes and most of the Negroes legendary American Negro en: Baker said she would visit the ‘were women. Old women, mid- tertainer who went to Paris in Governor of New Jersey to die-aged women, young wo- the early 1920's to become the plead for their freedom. men talked animatedly among star of the Folies Bergere, “Two Loves Have I” themselves. One voice rang out Her fabulous wardrobe, her ‘When Josephine Baker closes louder than the rest: vivid appearance, her gifts as her present stage-act she sings “Did you see the way she singer and comedienne have what has come to be known handles herself? What she's been the subject of excited as her “theme song.” Parisian got is poise and dignity. That's comment. But her admirers pay designer, she walks across the What I liked about it.” greatest tribute to one par- stage and sings with tender- In the Hotel Theresa bar on tieular aspect of Josephine ness anda touch of sorrow Faster Sunday there was a Baker's character, sharply re- “Two loves have I. .. my coun- party of four middle-aged peo- vealed since her arrival here. try and Paris.” Most Negroes ple. They had come down from This woman is not afraid to hearing her feel like the young Springfield, Mass., for the holl- ralse her voice in behalf of her woman student from a South- day weekend. One, a woman people's fight for freedom, ern Negro college who said: who said she did domestic “She wouldn't have to say “T felt like my heart would ‘work, smiled as she talked with anything,” a woman who had break, It just made me feel 20 hher head thrown back. come from Virginia to see Miss mat about. the oppression we J. Baker vs. J. Crow Baker, said. “She could just have to live in, I thought how “© she's wonderful, all right. come on over here and pretend terrible it was that her own And the whole time I sat there everything was fine. After all, country would have never I felt proud because I read she’s got It made. And’a French made it possible for Josephine where she wouldn't play in a citizen, too! But she comes Baker to do what she did in In the Freedom Family hotel in her “home town,’ St. here and shows us she hasn't France Louis, because they discrimi- forgotten a. thing. She knows “I wanted to stand up and With this issue we begin 9 run a little picture of George nate against Negroes. I heard Jim Crow didn’t stop over here shout: Welcome home, Joseph- Uttle confidential chit chat with in this space just to show that she even made them let Ne- just because she made a foi Ine Baker! Welcome home!” our readers. The number of he’s as handsome as he is help= folks in the FREEDOM Family ful Our pictures this time are of is steadily growing. And we're two of FREEDOM's most effec Iron City, Negro Author’s sure it'll grow faster once you tive builders. Mary Ann John= Know about some of our heart~ son is a member of Boston's aches and problems—and are Friends of Freedom committee, given a chance to help solve She sold 200 January FREES DOM’s at Beantown churches, Hard-Hitting First Novel them, In February she sold 250 and BY LOUIS FE. BURNHAM But Brown's strongest argu- characterized, warm, honest, First, a word about our pub- Bot seven subs, Her initiative is If you're tired of the trend ments are not in his magazine tender, angry human beings, cation date. It's been-uncer- amazing, her toward self-denial and self- article; they are in the hard- struggling, fighting, suffering, tain and irregular due to the energy endless, abasement which goes under hitting, heart-rending pages of and trlumphantly ‘living the growing pains of our boot-strap Friends of the name of “integration” in “fron City,” his first novel, problems and the answers.” operation. But it won't be ani FREEDOM Is the current writings of many ‘And what a novel! “fron City” depicts Negroes more, From now on your FREE- sending her to Negro authors, then cut out “tron City” is the story of who share the universal human DOM will roll off the press the New York to. the blank below and let FREE- Lonnie James, Negro youth qualities of heroism, courage, Inst week in the month pre- attend the DOM send you a special sub- framed on a murder charge, Kkindliness, and devotion, not ceding publication date. So, birthday cele- hope in spite of themselves, but pre- look for the May issue between bration. for Scriber's copy of “Iron City” by searching for a ray of cisely because their life as Ne~ May 1 and 4, depending on Paul Robeson. Lloyd L. Brown, through the bars of the Iron ‘groes calls forth these qualities. ‘where you live. Brown is a name—and a City jail. And it’s the story of For the first time in Ameri- She is single & 4 writer—to be reckoned with. the fight to save his life or- can literature it answers in = If you're one of those who've and a domes- M. A. Johnson Born in St, Paul, Minn, 38 ganized and waged from inside eonvineing and believable way ceived your FREEDOM, don't tle: worker. years ago, he's a’ veteran-of the jail by three Negro jail~ the questions: “What makes received your FREEDOM, don't Nat Bond Is our North Caro- many labor struggles and is mates—Communists, also Negroes Communists and what tell a friend—tell us! Or, bet- lina representative. He's @ currently associate editor of framed—on a “criminal syndi~ are Negro Communists like?” ter still, tell George, graduate student ‘at North Masses and Mainstream, the calism’” charge, Carolina College in Durham. popular monthly magazine. Here you will not find the Brown writes with a fluency George B. Murphy, Jr, is our and was founding president of In the March issue of that jaded belles, octoroon mistress~ and skill which it is rare to General Manager. He's ‘an old confer publication, Brown demolishes es and dashing soldiers of for- find in first novels. He obvious- hand at newspaper affairs and the N.C. NAACP youth the arguments of a number of tune who people the Frank ly knows the people and the ‘& member of the most distin- ence. Nat has ‘organized Tearned gents who set out to Yerby sagas, Here are no Bos- lives he describes. His book guished fami- FREEDOM YOUTH CLUB in show, in a symposium con- ton Negroes placed in a Back should encourage young Negro, ies in Negro Durham and they've written ductéd’by Phylon, the Atlanta Bay setting in a pale imitation writers to plant their feet firm- journalism — and are singing the following University quarterly, that there of “he Proper Bostonians.” ly on the path which will lead the Murphys song to the tune of “Oh Christ= fs no such thing as Negro liter ‘There is not a line of escapism to a rebirth of Negro literature of the Balti- mas Pine,” ature and that the country is in this book. in this country. more Afro- Presumably better off without In the words of Paul Robe- Richard Wright has aban- ‘American, So, © Freedom Tree son, “Here are people: richly doned. that path. Brown has if you haven't © Freedom Tree, © Freedom opened it up again. 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