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Staal Ware Ftw Oe Ass Aa Sy Kenyatta Teagues—Arkansas and Missis- Frederick Jordan and Howard African Union, Is but the “Legal” Sippi, Included es Here’s Situation Same As Last Month ee My Story Fre @ adorn By PAUL ROBESON An Open Letter to “Where there is.no struggle there is:no progress”. Jackie Robinson 7 J NOTICE in a recent issue-ot Vol. IlI—No. 4 Sy 178 APRIL, 1953 10¢ | Mie ‘Our fos World” trunk magazine yas that toe outspoken, Certainly not many They Of our folks think share that view e like "you that the “Yankees, making many e a “buck” off Tee Bietyn In t a an urc an fact, I know British Jail eed By ALPHAEUS HUNTON Staal Ware ftw oe ass aa Sy Kenyatta Teagues—Arkansas and Missis- Frederick Jordan and Howard African Union, is but the “legal” sippi, included. Primm of the African Metho- side of the increasingly brutal Iam happy, Jackie, to have dist Episcopal Church from been in the’ fight for real going to South Africa to pre~ ; military ed by the attacks British being in conduct- the East I. was proud to stand with AME members there. Both assaults—through court= fans would not only take us— Malan racists will go in their re sae } Africans who continue to dis you, Things Jackie, about explain people trying a lot to of Churet the ban in is South given that Africa the is AME) am. | | end MEETINGS of the pass LIKE laws THIS and wanton police terror. iconvietea” along with reny~ shut up those of us who speak tiated with the Afriean Nation of seven years at hard labor, / out in many other fields. al Congress, leader of the re- Stating that “in Afriea our government is doing busl- | were Fred Kubal, chairman of ‘You read in the paper every sistance movement. ness with the white colonialists, not the African people, | the Nairobi branch of KAU and ‘These day about things “doings” are very in impor? Africa, aeiteie Tecatianeuigt in and Kenya is supporting and Riodesta,” Malan Paul in South’ Robeson, Africa following and the the British sen- | | Trade president of the East African Bee a ee arta tatody cea | Cae yee ee ia ee eee ‘Achiniy Union Ont, Concrete; eanvaltaacres Richard continent of 200 millions of Assembly sessions last Nov., in “Let us protest the jailing of the black leaders of tary of the KAU, and three folks te ocad like Goh us and Jot: ty related theses to posed explaining fun: propel why the te U.S. 4 op- UN | Kenya. Raptay Let tus us Be call Mtass upon Meee our government help iis this cone week anion to stop | other Cok leaders of the organiza= things here. Commission ae eee ap eee : , tlalaliuation” to in “study South the Atsica, ra- | | people Dur'valces who are be heard marching tn thousands iresisably of Caeerem toward freedom, ai Tet | rigs the’ deserted, OC ecu outvol-the-way IN folks SOUTH are challenging “AFRICA Malan, black Sprague’ {7.8 spokesman’ said, “My government Charles ‘A’ ||. te ths Preeiaent’is Waster ee Ps fae ‘War! eee in Kenya a ihnd of super Ku iluger’ eoppits ‘ally the Coverelgnly : ei rapes seater) tal These Africans aré refusing 10 of the great, Union of Seutn Kind Negro Americans have low him to go overseas, espe- xeNutta Poa his woteanns obey Jim Crow laws, They Africa with which it has long Ot been, welcome in South cially fh a country where stood firm and-unflinching aa Want Tap! game some freedom teeedom ke like we we Ao, d0, been een assoctatel associated In in frienaly friendly ree *e- Aftiea, Sits either unless domestic they were or oficial, serv- discrimination, there is no color bar tad and tany no the the, judge. fuses, (Manked (flanked on on. liner elther and Bee sacrifice aN for it. Malan aan» and teihapes terchange Bf of Scnvelnd travel and trade tle An And while a4 for Africans snting ans and cine other omrituas have to come Geoatwmaissee back to our ene guns, the oortaan courtroom filled ke mi with Investors would. like to shut "In talking about “steady in- 1,06, oMclal poliey was set Is a Nationalist Government Surrounded by armed miltiat) them up and lock them up. terchange “of travel” Mr, forth. three years ago by I don’t think that will be pronounced eentenes, Well, I'm very proud that Sprague apparently was think- Malan’s Minister of Labor, B. _ permitted. Meanwhile, from Mombasa Sisters these of African ours play brothers my records and if ing only ‘cabe about of the certain AME bishops whites. %- Schoeman, “T think itis who unfair said: to the The People ban Demand “against Answers ihe’ AME Sivesourgne Cecil Gregory Courier wrote (4/41/59) to the as they march in thelr pa: ig'by novmieana the frst of te Now-Europenn himoelf to als (Continued on Page 4) (Gonlguad be Page 4) Hr des, spont ‘A good a te part wank of my of time te Counc on “Atween Asta tot, Himton, geese eh Peperton on Anion Aetes, Vian Negro ge pealle Labor Cantons Pinan Council Launches Southern Drive eb gna the gon late of a arent Wiliam YMCA Hunton. 1004- fitai soe Negre tee General Labor Counell Council mapped of the. Nat out Gorchateman. Dr W. EB: of Dubois, the one Counell of «Tide Pie jane the-mlitent month for Ls labor own bodyy “Opsration whlch | ater Hie, lived. greatest We false Ameriodns funds for who; Sins Pottoniieg at improving of ‘Negro. the Workers condiicas regard and. op: i Bprammation, setront ts, moblise wep F (Continued on Page 3) Bris pore throughout, owtetn the Alten” maton pope for a. drive yp URGENT NOTICE | Woe. thousands sustont of factory. ae production Soh yobs the Sadness plate’ ea Council officers pointed out that as new nding your paper "92. or has Jan a Feb, date] | ingustries Gdopt the rigtd move sim South Crow they. hifing invariably policies Mar, ’53—your subscription} of the area, which means the total ex- has Jn expired. order to keep FREE-| ing clusion industries, of Negroes or thelr from employment new manufactur- onl New DOM NOW!’ coming in 1953 os RE- e Ree a ; : ieee pate sad pee a Cheap Labor Issue NNEC GENERAL COUNCIL members tolk over Southern drive. L. to r.: Rev. M. Fs an envelope with $1 and] | (The Association of Southern Industry Hardin, pres. Cincinnati NLC; Walter Barnett, Louisville; Oliver Palmer, Was! rend tb off Ree recently reported eat that in Mae 1952 eee industry Meany D.C, Asbury Howard, Bessemer, Ala,, natl vice-pres. of NNLC; Leroy Wilson, i St. Lous, (Continued on Page 5) another vice-pres., and Mrs. Anna S. Hardin of Ci 2_FREEDOM. APRIL, 1953 10¢ roan 1626-1953—‘Equality’ Was the Watchword ie Happened. oS SSS ‘Meanwhile the sentiment of the elective franchise. Typl- Last Month FIRST OF A SERIES against slavery had reached cal is the CAN to the New This article is the first of a such a pitch, that New York York State Convention of Ne- ad “series on the history of the finally in 1827 totally abolished groes in 1840 (two years after battle which Negroes have the institution — just’ Tour Frederick Douglass came to THE POLITICAL SCENE waged for political equality in months after “Freedom's Jour- New York City), signed by 100 Professor Henry J. Williams, America’s largest city, New nal,” the first abolitionist people, which declared: shalrman of the Vote Commis York. The sequels will appear newspaper was published in “The principal legal dis- sion of the Alabama State in each issue from now until New York City by a Negro, ability which affects us, is, the Teachers Association and also the November municipal elec John B. Russworm. deprivation of the tree exer- of the Birmingham Negro tions. For a factual background Economie Position Worsens cise in common with other Teachers Association an< of a crusade which is now men, of the elective franchise, nounced that over 60 per cent reaching new heights you may While meetings were held A free suffrage is the basis of of the 708 Negro teachers in the want to clip and keep the series. throughout the state rejoicing a free government, the safe- Birmingham public school sys at the end of slavery in New guard of a free people, the tem are qualified voters. York (the last state in the strength of the strong, the de- By FREDERICK CORNISH North except for New Jersey fence of the weak, a powerful ‘The first Negro candidate in In 1626 eleven Negroes came to abolish it), their joy was auxiliary to respectability, a Bibb county (Ga.) political fas slaves to the Dutch col- tempered with’ sorror and an- wealth, and usefulness; and Face ran third in a fleld of 16 ‘ony of New Amsterdam (later ger over the loss of the vote. just in proportion as men are contestants as William Dunn New York). Eighteen years Added to this was the pas- Frederick Douglass Geprived of this, they are put in a strong bid for city later they were freed on their sage of the Fugitive Slave Law shorn of their strength, and Water commissioner of Macon, own petition —and to the in 1850 and the Dred Scott skilled and semi-skilled jobs are. subject to. poverty, dis- Dunn polled. 460 votes to $29 struggle against slavery was deeision in 1857, which made which had been won in the, grace and abuse. for ‘Thomas Winchester, the added the fight for equal every free Negro’ in the city in course of struggle. From 1830, In 1860 a referendum was Winner. Second-place candi Political rights.
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