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EWP 1 Williams 003
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Virginia
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1000516
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2024-01-07
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Digitized by Edwin Washington Project
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Loudoun County Public Schools
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English
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‘The foregoing table will show that the
Negro crime rate is 681 percent of the
white crime rate in the integrated States.
The Negro crime rate in the segregated
States, by contrdst, is only 248 percent of'
the white crime rate.
Where is-the reign of terror?
Where is the Negro a better citizen: in
an integrated soclety, or in a segregated
society?
Each of the following States has less
than 100,000 Negro population: Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, = Wisconsin,
Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ne-
braska, Kansas, Delaware, Montana,
Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico,
Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and
Washmgton——a total of 24 States. For
this reason, these States—along with
Michigan and Georgia—were not in-
cluded in the foregoing table. Again,
Michigan and Georgia were excluded be-
cause no reports had been made avail-
~able
In the 24 States with less than 100,000
Negro population, the 1950 census shows
a combined Negro population of 450,460.
Justice Department records show that in
1950, those States sent a total of 898 Ne-
.groes to prison on felony convictions,
making a rate—for those States—of 197
per 100,000 Negro population. It should
be noted that this rate is substantially
higher than the average of the other
States with larger Negro populations.
Even in States with the lowest percent-
age of Negro population, the Negro crime
rate is almost. triple the rate in the
Southern States.
The -following table, again compiled
from official records of the United States
Department of Justice, shows a break-
down of offenses, by race, for which the
aforementioned convictions and im-
prisonments followed:
Male felony prisoners .received from court,
Federal and State. institutions (except
Georgia and Michigan), 1950
Yoo
Per-
2 Other
Offense ‘White| Negro cent
Taces | Negro
Murder 734 865 20 53.0
Manslaughter. | 310 676 17 56.0
3,563 | 1,918 25 35.0
Robbery......
Minnesota, -
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Male felony prisoners received from -court,
Federal and State institutions (except
- ‘Georgia and Mzchzgan), 1950—Continued
; Per-
: 1 Other,
Offense ‘White| Negro s grglso
Aggravated assault._..__ 1,167 | 1,402 44 53.0
Burglary ... ___ . __ 8,054 | 3,504 129 30.0
Larcency, exeept auto
theff______o=tc =i 5,478 | 2, 553 108 3.0
Autotheft_____________ _ 3,608 630 76 14.0
16 13.0
4 27.0
82 18.0
D 1,259 27 34 25.0
Commercialized vice..._.| 190 48 1 16.0
Other sex offenses.: = 165 14 14.0
Drug laws 3 940 50 46.0
Carrying and possessing
WeRPONS. .- _____._... 162 1161 -3 41.0
Nonsupport or neglect...| 755 268 14 26.0
Liquorlaws______________ 1, 140 660 5 36.0
Immigration and mnat-
uralization laws-__ | 945 12 4 1.0
Trafficlaws_._._____ 154 36 8 18.0
Natmnal defense laws____ 85 10 2 10.0
.................... 1, 469 421 27 22.0
Mmtary courts-martial__} 607 145 6 20.0
Fotal_ ioai@ss 7 38, 680 (16, 256 689 29.2
Note: The 1950 census shows the popu-
Tation of the United States to be dis-
tributed percentagewise as follows:
White, 89.5 percent; Negro, 10 percent;
other races, .5 percent.
These figures—except for the percent-
ages shown in the last column—are
taken from the Annual Report of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons, issued by the
Department of Justice, Mr. Herbert
Brownell, Attorney General, in 1954,
Negroes comprise 10 percent of the
total population of the United States.
Yet, as the above table shows, Negroes
committed more than half the homi-
cides, both murder and manslaughter,
in our country in 1950. This 10 percent
of our population is also responsible as
this table shows, for a disproportionate
share of the crimes committed.
This is but another reason why the
Southern people intend to retain their
segregated institutions.
Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned before,
a great deal of the current anti-South
and anti-Mississippi propaganda is com-
ing from the State of New York, and New
York City in particular. For that reason,
and in order to reveal to New Yorkers
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what they probably don’t know about
themselves in this respect, I offer the fol-
. lowing comparative analysis of prison
populations, as between my State of Mis-
sissippi and New York State:
New Missis-
York sippi
Total Negro population (1950 -
census) 918,191 986, 494
Negroes in prison. 17,585 21,432
Negro prisoners per 100,000 po
glation_ .- . isooToroeeres 843 147
Whlte prlsonels per 100,000 pop- %0 .
11952,
21954,
Note.—These are the latest available prison popula-
tion figures available for the 2 States.
These figures show that New York has
five times more Negroes per capita in
prison than Mississippi. Where is the
reign of terror?
Several weeks ago, I reported to the
-House a breakdown of murders in Mis-
sissippi during 1954. During that year,
8 white persons were killed by Negroes;
6 Negroes were killed by white persons;
and 182 Negroes killed members of their
own race.
Mr. Speaker, the President, the
NAACP, and the left-wing press hail the
District of Columbia as the ideal ex-
ample of integration. Some have gone
so far as to call the District a utopia
of integration. The facts just do not
support these allegations.
The Census Bureau reported in 1950
that the population of the District of
Columbia was about 65 percent white
and 35 percent Negro. What the ratio
may be today is anyone’s guess, as there
has been a general exodus of white peo-
ple away from the District in the inte-
grated years that have followed, into
the segregated areas of nearby Virginia
and Maryland.
The following tables, except for the
percentage column, are official reports
of arrests on felony charges, by sex and
race, in the District of Columbia for the
fiscal year 1955, taken from the 1955 an-
nual report of the Metropolitan Police
Departmen’, Washington, D. C.:
Arrests by sex, color, and nativity, District of Columbia, fiscal year 1955
Total Toéal‘ lr)fg,ions Native white F ors; it§°m Negro All others
Offense both = Fercent;
sexes Negro
Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female
. 1. Criminal homicide: =
(@) Murder--____ . liil_ . ToS 49 42 7 5 2 37 4 jenlaci 1 84
(b) Manslaughter______. 4 4 2} 2 50
(c) Negligent homicide._ 20 19 1 6 e e ey 13 65
2. . 165 165 20 145 90
40 40 9 s 31 77
3. ery 908 --836 72 121 5 715 67 86
(a) Attempted robbery 79 77 4 2 12 65 2 85
4. Aggravated assault___.__._._. 3,597 2,661 936 305 71 19 2 2,337 863 90
5. Housebreaking.___._______.:___:_._ 2, 426 2,323 103 474 -1 11 1,838 88 79
(@) Attempted Thousebreaking _ ..o 116 112 4 19 93 4 83
6. Larceny-theft: -
andover .. __.__ 470 433 37 105 15 4 1 324 e e 73
2,575 2,222 353 498 98 3 % 1,719 230 =t 76
7. Auto theft. 623 617 6 163 1 g s 450 & 73
11,072 9, 551 1,521 1,739 208 41 28 7,769 1,284 2 1 82
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