Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 27]

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~ decision of the Supreme. Court.

THE BRONZE REPORTER

Saturday, May 22,1954

Page Twelve

u dt
our Union bee
our Community

By EDGAR HOLT

Thank God our community can
turn their attention from the UnAmerican Committee to something
worthwhile. ~ the long overdue

The decision was truly a peo
g ey someone should organize 4a.
~street dance to celebrate this victory. The decision would not
have been possible without the
large groups of so-called little
people like the factory workers

or union, Elks, Civil, Liberties 9
groups, Masonic educational EDGAR. HOLT
-groups, together with the NAA he

QUAKE HITS GREECE... Tha
and at least 30 were killed whez

' central Greece. Photo shows d

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CP groups and some few churches
and hit and. miss Greek societies.

It was certainly a hit and miss
response when it came to the support of Negto Greek societies for

ber about 75,000 or 80,000. At
the present time about. 25% of
the white school -ponulation ~is in

high school,.compared to approx

Rev. Robert Bradby hy
Coming To ~Flint |

(Continucd.from page 1). |

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this group is mainly comnosed of
the middle class Negro. Here you
can count on very little supnort
because [they are the parasites Apu he
that benefit from but give very|~7Y ter thousand waite npreet
little to Negro advancement. They |in. this country are enre~ed_ in
afe mainly interested in running | some higher, educational institu.
to teas while struggling youn:.| tien, as contrasted with. 50 out
>
f ~
Negro artists play to: an empty | of every 10.000 nis Ure t
house: ~ Their |niain interest a in| Words, a little over S times as
maintaining the status quo, There i'many white persons, as Negroe
fore, the struggle for Negro ad- lare enrolled-in higher educationa,
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vancements is in the hands of th j institutions in this: country.

8.9%
large masses of people organize~

imately 13 for Negroes. Ir
the case of higher educa~ion, ~
hundred and fiftv two out of. ev

| Of those enrolled in schoo] amenge

in some df thel dreanizations men- | the whites are in the highey in
Haned atiove. | | sti tutions.of learning. This com
Fortunately, worlc~ ni on | Rares with the 2.4% of the Neof the | Srees in similar category.

seems. to be on the side|
common man~ today and with the |

world watching the ~ Supreme) cation pani i iat of te
Court could not dowtinie to an- | Whites, pee by enone: ta for 1940 |
nounce to the world that segroga-|1N~ census *
e to tl pest 11947. Data for 1947 indicat

~tion does! not embody

discrimination.

inkerently
a: | that the median years of scheoltne

|for the. white population th: ough-. It has been interesting to cb
My ig: e & 9 ||
serve the opihions exptessed ir ~out the country was 9:9 years South, ~ we are proud of the NAA- |:
various newspapers on the deci. | Negroes for the same date re-|:: fi, || par 7.4. years. 9 a
sion. Our-own Flint Journal! has |! et: ' years.: {In 1940 bhe | 2 |
called for sympathy for the white} a. an - Ss attainment | |
F 7 _|
southerners in this difficult time.\~ 0" WUNES Was years, com~) ~ |
Where has all this sympathy been | pared with 6.2 for Negroes. ~Th 1
while the {Negro was suffering figures anti that there has |;..: * ive ow c ek
from this: gross inequality. Here) ee eee 13
are the facts: ~years of schooling attained bv
> tS: ldorobs berw a7 |
There re labdut (34 million: peo-|| Negror between 1940 and 1947. |
|Since the length of ~the.~scho!

ple in school, out of a total, pop
ulation of about 151 million. In

other words,approximately one all parts of the country and cy
out of: every |5 persons jin this larger prepartion of Negroes than
country id in| sbme kind of school, whites -live.in,the south Where
In the white population~ there are school years are shortest, the d'sabout 21 million-in the elenien-|Patity between Negro and white |
tary schools; 4 little over 5 mj]-| education is greater than indiea-. 4; isl te t veare wwhaal ~ ind
lion in high school; and a littlé ted by years of school attended.

over 2 million in ~higher) education. _The total proportion of: Nesanie
as whites, but ithey are largely ir
elementary schools. There
17% more Negroes in the elemen
- Aceording to researchers, cotton
Pugs have =been around. a_ long
time. They say cotton floor coverings were in use in the eastern
hemisphere prior to the rise -of
the Roman empire

are

When painting steps, you cai
keep the stairway open to -traffis
by painting every other step first
| When dry, paint the remaining
steps.

In the eleschools there are about
~million Negroes; in high
school, a little over 400,000, and
in higher education, Negroes num
raysone |

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of the UAW-CIO and City Ccm,|

missioner. Blanche Brooks
don, NAACP Secretary and chair
soloist, will render two vocal solos

lof the Negro National Anthem.
The nation knows
i battleS and costly court cases car
Further indication of Negro ed.| ried on by the National Associa
tion for the Advancement
lored People to win this
of the ~ United States Supreme
+|| Court. Today, in the face of th's
| great victory for the Negro peo-|; ple, which is shaking the Jim Crow. | CP, we are proud of its members |
Robert Carter, Regional Directo? |

|| Sunday.
ser |S day

man of the FEPC Committee. Loeal 826, UAW-CIO, will. chair the)
meeting.

Flint~s talented young pianict,
Miss ~Melvina Banner, will offer|
two piano selections. Mr. Wade
Jones, Flint ~Choir. director ang

and lead the audience in singing

the great|

of Col-)
decision|

and friends.

Come out and: celebrate) this
Demonstrate your loyalty and unceasing devotion to
the cause of human. rights and
| liberties. Let us go forward to-+
|gether to greater victories. Sun| day we shall proudly hail our ac|complishments and ~Lift Every
i Voice and Sing.~ Everyone is
| welcome. 3

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