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Memo to NAACP Leaders Here’s ON THE INSIDE e Robeson Birthday Tour My Story page 2 By PAUL ROBESON | Repeal the Smith Act pages 4-5 -NNLC Job Campaign NCE IN OUR HISTORY page 8 there was a Fugitive Negro Dancers Don’t Get Slave Law. You remember Hired ~. 2. Dred Scott. Slaves who es- Vol. II—No, 3 MARCH, 1952 oe 1 10c a Copy ; caped to the North, were dragged back, contrary to every fundamental constitu- tional fight of political asylum. The infamous Supreme Court decision, de- Memo to NAACP Leaders: livered by Chief Justice Taney, contended, that the “black man has no right that the white man is lt's Time to Fight—Not Fawn bound -to re- spect.” Clearly this was not a By CLAUDE BLANCHETTE . Adeision of the people of this land — of the Abolitionists, of Washington looked the same last Feb. 17-18 when 800 of us gathered in the Hotel Statler for a the Frederick Douglasses. This Leadership Conference on Civil Rights called by the NAACP and 50 other national organizations. But was a decision reflecting the looks are deceiving. We soon discovered after visiting our senators and_representatives that civil rights was slave-holding South. a dead duck in this Congress. In the past four years, it was clear, the Dixiecrats had stealthily captured bi- And now, today in 1952, we oliticians of both old parties have a foreign relations com- partisan power. Northern mittee headed by Senator Con- had traded support for “sta ’s rights” in return for “Con- An Editorial nally of Texas. We have a gressional harmony” on Truman’s war program, now fur- Smith-Connally Act, sponsored nishing bullets to shoot down colored peoples fighting for by the same Connally and their freedom. “Smith of Virginia. We have the Cadillac Leadership denial of free speech, of the The leaders of the conference were, an alarming number either declared themselves flat- sacred right of freedom of be- —most of the NAACP officials— ETURNING FROM the recent sessions of the United lief. We have the denial of footedly \ against doing away must have sensed this change Nations Assembly in Paris, Dr. Channing Tobias, al- freedom to travel. We have a in Washington, for they held with the filibuster and passing McCarran Act, derlying free- their fire against the pro-war civil rights legislation, or they ternate U.S. delegate, announced to the world that he had dom of entry, for example, to bigshots, severely limited the were evasive and wanted to “foiled the Russians.” our West Indian brothers and participation of Negroes in the “wait until a bill was drawn up.” sisters, the Statue of Liberty program and excluded repre- Senators from Massachusetts, The Russians, according to the eminent doctor, had notwithstanding. sentatives of all organizations Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mich- tried to “embarrass” the United States by making frequent not originally among the spon- igan and..California, for ex- references to the persecution of Negroes in the South..And WENT WEST this past sors. We were termed by Walter ample, were among the fellow Tobias’ answer was that he had survived-a-boyhood in the month, to Seattle, just travelers of the Dixiecrats. White and others a “respec- South and that he had grown to be a man of sufficient across from Vancouver, British table,” “non-Communist” gath- Their names, in. order, are Columbia, Canada. Here was a ering reportedly representing Leverett Saltonstall, William E. education and standing to be appointed by the President convention of the Canadian 35 million organized members Jenner, Bourke Hickenlooper, to the UN. section of the Mine, Mill and back home. Earle C. Clements (former Gov- Smelter’ Workers, a fine union ernor of Kentucky), Homer A few days previously Walter Lee Irvin had sat in an _with black and white leader- On Monday, Feb. 18, the Ferguson and William F. Know- Ocala, Fla., courtroom and listened as a lily-white jury unit- ship—Ray Dennis, Asbury How- morning after a scrumptious land. ed with a foul-mouthed: prosecutor and a wood-whittling ard, Harvey Murphy, and that dinner the night before in the Rep: Richard Vail, of Illinois, judge to condemn him to death in the electric chair. great leader of labor, Maurice beautifully . decorated — Hotel virtually attacked a Jewish Statler, we set out from the Travis, .secretary-treasurer of delegate for lining up “with His body was bullet-ridden. His friend, Samuel Shep- Senate Caucus Room to visit the union. Negroes when .Jews are not herd, had been killed by a hate-crazed sheriff. He was a Now no American, needs a our lawmakers. Most of them (Continued on Page 6) “passport to go to Canada,.so in were not in, and of those who (Continued on Page 8) spite of my passport difficul- ties, I expected no action by the State Dept. At. the. border, in Blaine, Washington, there were many ~ Canadian acquaintances and a very frieridly Vancouver press. They assured me that the Ca-, nadian Government would not refuse me entry, and that Van- couver was waiting to give me , a warm welcome. I have ap- peared in Vancouver many times in concerts, in Othello, have spoken at the university there. No city has been friend- lier throughout the years. I remembered Douglass, Har- riet Tubman and hundreds of our folk who escaped by the ’ underground into Canada around Detroit—at Windsor for example.’ Again I felt the sympathetic understanding of the Canadian people, against a background of racial persecu- tion in my own country. The representative of the American State Dept. called me in and very nervously informed me that, though no passport ‘was needed, a special order had come through forbidding me to “leave the country. If I did, it might mean five years, and a fine! (1 thought of my great Ben Davis—it’s and good friend bombings and about time a major fight was WILL NAACP. LEADERS provide “Cadillac leadership" or put up a NAACP MEMBERS, concerned with lynchings, launched to free Ben. People in real fight for civil rights? Walter White seems to be pondering terrorism, are looking for leadership that will let them in om (Continued on Page q) this question. the fight. _ Page 2 Defy Detroit Victory Corner Those 700 students in Kings- Flowers, who has been active in ton, North Carolina, who walked the fight against the Jim Crow ° Witch-Hunt out on a two-day strike last schools in Arkansas, turned the The Un-American. Activities November demanding improve> note over to authorities, took Committee is demonstrating in ments for their Adkins High a pre-arranged trip to Los An- its witch-hunting attempt in School, got their demand. geles, made a speech and said: ‘Detroit that one thing enemies Kingston school officials have “If Idie I will die effectively. of democracy can’t stand is to promised $255,000 werth of im- Segregation has got to go!” He see the labor movement and provements including a gymna- then calmly took the next the Negro people join hands. sium, vocational ‘building and plane back to Pine Bluff, to go The committee centered its four brand new classrooms. on with his work. attack on Ford Local 600, with * * * * * * its militant Negro membership A 21-year-aldgwhite foreman The Pittsburgh Pirates and and leadership, and the~Na- went up. to Jake McKinney, a the Cincinnati Reds - finally tional Negro Labor Council. \ _Negro worker at Chicago’s Wil- signed two Negro players in And as the hearings opened, son and Co., and said, “How February—their first. - one of the “uncooperative” wit- you doing today, Sunshine?” i * * \* nesses was menaced in his “Who you talking to?” was Negroes all over the country plant by\a gang who dangled the fast question from 32-year- felt good when Marion Ander- a rope in front of him. They old McKinney. son sang before that. mixed told him they were from Un- “You; you look like. a sho’ audience in Miami. We felt even American head John S. Wood’s nuff happy-go-lucky \boy with better when we learned of the home state, and “if you don’t a bright-and happy smile.” And like the way the KKK. does no-segregation clause which she that was exactly the moment things in Georgia, we’ll teach - has inserted ‘in her contract, you.” young Baxter was sent crash- which means that she . will ing to the floor, from the power never again sing for a Jim First witness to be called was of Jake McKinney’s fist. Crow audience. Bravo! , the courageous’ Rev. Charles With lightning speed, Mc- A. Hill, who declared: ‘Kinney was fired. Happily the * | * * “The Negro people through- a In Harlem, after six years of anti-discrimination dept. of the out America are on the march SM Wipro * United Packinghouse Workers trying, this community has Lif to possess the promised land we zy Hh was on the job. There was an achieved at least the blueprints Ly of true democracy for which investigation and McKinney for a new super retail market ‘ xe SY they have paid their full meas- Dow was rehired on the ground that in the area, which has been Bure ure in blood, sweat, sacrifice Baxter’s insult had not only one of the big fights of the and death on every battlefield been an infringement of Mc- Consumers Protective Commit- “SENATOR, my department can convict and execute 10,000 Ne- where this nation of ours has Kinney's dignity but that of tee. It is to beat 142nd St. and fought—and they will not be groes for rape each fiscal year.
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