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EWP Blue Ridge 1955 Nov 17b
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Virginia
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1000596
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2024-01-07
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Loudoun County Public Schools
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English
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What They Say
A Negro Takes a Look at NAACP’S
_ (This article by Webster McClary in the
was published in
Williamsburg, S. C., Record
the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
TO THE PEOPLE of Wil-
liamsburg County:
There are times to speak and
times to keep quiet and this is a
time to speak.
I am a INe
~ present I al
~ preacher in St. Paul M. E.
Church near Kingstree, S. C.
During the week 1 farm my own
land and also run a licensed
taxi service in town. I belong to
the Free & Accepted Masons, tO
the Grand Order of Odd Fellows
and to the Joint Stock Society
It has been reported that I be-
long to the NAACP also.
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FIRST, let me say to my
white friends that 1 have never
belonged to the NAACP and
never expect to. I'm too free and
happy praising God, working
hard and living in the friendship
of both races.
I ask you to show this to your
colored friends. :
Second, let me say to my col-
ored brethren and sisters:
You are doing a lot of talking
- about White Citizens Councils.
You say they are not like -a
bunch of young drunks whoop-
ing and hollering on a possum
hunt. You say councils are
springing up quiet as mushrooms
in the night. And you say right.
Those are smart, steady men and
they mean business. They have
told you there won’t be any mix-
ed schools hereabouts and I'm
telling you you can depend on
that. You can quit your secret
worrying and fretting about
mixed schools, for most of you
don’t want them any more than
whites do. You just didn’t know
how to keep from having them.
1 CAN SAY THIS to any
Negro who has it sticking in his
craw that he can’t be happy
without trying mixed schools. All
you have to do to get your
heart’s desire is buy a ticket to
Philly or other points north
where they are already mixed.
Nobody has to tell you that
colored children don’t learn
books as fast as whites. But see
serving as local must. But don’t be fool
friends’ faces before you go.
N OV - F
¢ | . .
Northern Big Shots
here by special request of 2 Middleburg reader
of The Blue Ridge Herald) ‘
It is reprinted
for yourself how_ pitiful your big
colored children will look in the
same grades with smaller white
children. Have you got enough
money. 10 dress your.
3 Y A
enough
white
You
might want to come back like I
did after I had lived up there a-
‘while.
How if you come home and
find the door locked? Your old
key won’t be much good in a
door fastened with a dozen ten-
penny nails. Who is going to
help you then? will the NAACP
give you a handout? Laugh,
folks, laugh! ,
k kK
to slam the door in your
THE YEARS 1 lived in Philly
and New York I made big
money as a house painter, but
it took it all to keep going. When
I finally came back home 1
hardly had one dime to rub
against another. What did 1 do?
I went to my white friends and
got a job. Later, who lent me
money to start farming? Who
sold me seed and fertilizer and
mules on credit? When dry
weather ruined my crops, who
let my debt ride till the next
year?
and clothes on credit when I
needed them? When I was sick,
who fed and clothed me free?
Not the Red Cross, not the Wel-
fare Department, not the NAA-
CP, but my own white friends.
I say God bless them and their
seed. '
Now don’t take the notion
that I'm talking against my OWI
race. I am not. I'm trying with
the help of God to lead my peo-
ple right. I'm warning all you
Negroes not to be misled by a
few NAACP folks you se€ strut-
ting their stuff in your com-
munity. Remember the old say-
ing, “Give a calf enough rope
and he will hang himself.” Just
keep an eye on the calves around
you and you are apt to see a
show turn into a circus.
If you are one of the calves,
The
Blue Ridge Feerald
Published weekly at Purcellville, Virginia
by The Blue Ridge Herald, Inc.,
a Virginia Corporation
John Eisenhard, managing editor
Virginia Duvall, office manager
Antbinette Eisenhard, advertising manager
James M. Lickey, production manager
John G. Persian, cqntributing editor
Business office open daily
Phone
Subseription $2.50 a year;
9 am. to b p.m.
Purcellville 5211.
$4.00 two years;
S
Saturdays 9 to 1 p.m-
$5.50 three years
.
Entered as second clags matter October 1, 1920, in the Postoifice at Purcellvillé.
Va., under Act of Con
*+To reaffirm faith in fundamental
e a1 el vights of men and women . .
gress of March 8, 1879.
in the dignity and worth
. and to
s . w _deda
brood .in .to take pride-—
42’ v_a :\j
giving
Who let me have groceries ¥
on the winning
‘forget you. How
per,
cut the rope now. Come out into '
the open and throw your weight -
for equal
J1 'Ou Icad e
about councils In other ¢
“exercising economic pressure?”
Do you know what that means?
I didn’t feither till I had it ex-
plained to me. In our kind of
but separate schools
where Negro children can learm
talk it means getting fired from a
job or having your credit cut off.
Be fair.
wages to a fellow and found he
was doublecrossing Yyou, what
would you do? You would fire
him so quick it would make his
head swim. He would be lucky
if he didn’t get a kick in the
pants for good measure. As for
him credit, who? You?
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IF YOU THINK the NAACP
will get those lost jobs back, get
somebody to explain the mean-
ing of the news from Washing-
ton in the papers with big print
in the top line saying, “Justice
Department Lacking Interest in
Economic Pressure.”
Listen, my colored brethren
and sisters: Come out into the
open and tell the world it’s equal
schools you want, not mixed. If
ou are too bashful, get some-
else to speak for you. Get
side while you
can. Forget the NAACP and
the Supreme Court before they
| long do Yyou
think they are going to stay in a
lather trying to force mixed
schools in South Carolina with
all the whites reared back on
their hind legs saying, “We won’t
have them!”
Negroes slipping around to whis-
«We don’t want them!”
Take an open stand with your
white and colored friends SO
things can settle down.
Let's all work together again
body
If you were paying
W
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tc
fe
th
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and threefourths the
o Nmed
on the program to build equal -
schools so your children can get
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a good education before they get
gray-headed. Beg your Christian
leaders to furnish you with good
leadership. What this country
needs is more Christian leaders
on both sides who will teach
their people to pray more and
work toward friendship and
peace and prosperity instead of
mixing breeds against God’s plan.
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MY FRIENDS, let all the nit-
wit talking about mixing Iaces
go in one ear and out the other.
It was God Almighty’s plan to
have a white race and a Negro
race and when Gabriel blows his
last trump, the two races will
still be on earth to answer. The
sprinkling of mixed breeds will
only show that both races were
human and sinful and standing
in the need of prayer.
If 1 were a betting man I
would bet vou that you'll see the