Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 38]

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In like manner, it will be.a reflection of Negro thought as
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them to cope with the many ~problems that one encounters on
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

It is regretable that this editorial is necessary; however,
a smail number ~of selfish people have been attempting
to make an issue of the fact that the BRONZE REPORTER has not come out and taken a firm stand on behalf of
Mr. Floyd J. McCree, Third Ward candidate for City
Commissioner.. |

LET If BE KNOWN THAT THREATS OF PUT
TING THE BRONZE. REPORTER OUT OF BUSINESS AND OTHER INTIMIDATIONS WILL NOT
CAUSE THE. BRONZE. REPORTER TO SWAY IN
THE INTEREST OF ANY SMALL GROUP AT THE
EXPENSE OF THE RACE AND THE COMMUNITY.. We are in existence solely because we have honestly
tried to reflect the thoughts and problems of the Negrogs
and render service to all in Flint.

It is our firm belief that a Negro should represent any
community that is predominately populated with Negroes. However, this person should be matured and well
qualified in the field 4 politics. This person should be
an American, who believes in our constitution and will
fight for the rights and privileges of ALL-people.~

We believe that color or national origin is not enough.
We must not permit ourselves to become hysterical rac
ial fanatics. |

As long as the solid citizens of Flint continue to ex_ press to us that we are doing a good job for the community; we shall continue to serve FLINT.

So to you arpa leaders, we will not compro
_ mise our ideals for b ter race relations and clean gov"ernment. at lat saci haE of radical racism, or any other

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Australian jungle; (c) a kayak.
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| By ARTHUR J. EDMUNDS
_ Executive Secretary, Urban
League of Flint

| Southern reaction to the. Supreme Court~ruling on public
school segregation has not been
entirely negative. The Baltimore School Board) announced
that its schools would be integrated this fall and the W. Virginia
school board has ordered al! of
the state~s) nine universities and
colleges to) admit Negro students
beginning in September. St. Louis will. begin in February, 1955.

The Delaware school board has
authorized schools to begin immediately, Missouri, Tennessee

and. Arkansas have announced
plans to|extend existing integration at ithe graduate levels. to
their undergraduate schools. Also
in Arkansas, the school for the
Blind begins immediate integration, as) have two isolated schoo~
districts. And, the State School
Board has ~established a. special
study committee to develop plans
aimed at compliance to the Court~s
decrees, Similar action seems
likely in Oklahoma and Missouri.
Washington school officials are
working out a plan for
ance. |
SOUTH NOT UNIFIED
The most important fact ~to
emerge! from the pattern of Southern reaction thus far is what
has NOT happened. That is,
no untfied common approach has
developed jin the ~Solid South.~
It does not seem likely that it
will, ~The number: cf school
hoards) announcing immediate
compliance; while small, is widély
scattered. Among the_17 states
affected, ithe number of states
preparing to enter the consultations with the Supreme Court in
a conciliatory spirt, already exceeds those.expressing determined
opposition..Even among those
five state that have not followed
the Caurt~s earlier ruling affect~ing graduate schools (~Miesissippi,
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and
So. Carolina) a cautious wait-and
see attitude prevails.

CATHOLICS GO FORWARD
Turning from public education,

statements issued by leading
spokesmen for tthe _ Catholic
Church in the South have left

no doubt that the Catholic schools
will move rapidly toward integration. Often at odds With state
officials and: legislatures in_ recent years over segregation laws,
leading Catholic prelates in the
South have been quick to express
their approval of the Supreme

compli
Frankly Speaking. ods

Court ruling. At the specific
urging of Archbishop Joseph F.
Rummel of New Orleans, the
Louisiana laws aimed at maintaining segregation in the State,
specifically exclude Catholic
schoals,
ton of Richmond, Va. and Robert

E, Lucey of San Antonio, Texts, {

have each decreed that Negro students be admitted to schvols in
their dioceses. St. ~Levis and
Washington D. C. Catholic schools
have been integrated for some
years. In response to the earlier
court decision on graduate
schools, 13 protestant theologica:
seminaries and,13_ private or
church related institutions had
dropped their. racial barriers as
had 21 Catholic institutions.

CRITICAL PERIOD FOR
SEGREGATION ISSUE

Thus it is clear that the months

ahead will bring the. segregation
issue to its most critical phase
since Emancipation. The generation reared in~ what Harry
Ashmore of the Arkansas Gazette
has called the ~~~Plessy Era~~ will
be putting to test the same Federalist constitutional theory of

~checks and balances~ that failed |

their ~slavery era~ grandfathers.

vortuse does not stand waiting
a~ one~s door. It has wings, and
helps those who help themselves,

Archbishop Peter L. Ire,

fight, |

As an. American, I did what was |
right.

It didn~t matter what cblomyone
was then,

We all struggled together to ~help
America win,

But when I read here and there

Where my people are refused
service and care,

Because of the color of their
skin.

I wonder sometimes what I did
win.

LAm I supposed to pass these

things by?

And not know not the reason
why?

Never did I' pass the enemy by

Without cutting off his cry.

Or refuse any task I was given
or asked.

If this coffee shop or dancing
school

And many other places lived by.the rules, |

~| Pair service and good care

Would be administered to every-.
one. |
~And there would be less wars to
come.
~ Charles Charles

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