Word: naacp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...example of how the NAACP has lost much respect in Mississippi, among even the most fair-minded people, was its recent handling of the Till case. It loosed a stream of vicious accusations and threats, indicting officials, newspapers, ministers, and the so-called "better citizens" of the entire state. Moreover, it began its accusations as soon as the body was found, despite the fact that every person and organization in the state let out a cry against the murder. People from all types of occupations were asked about the Till case, and no one came near condoning such a brutal...
...weeks after the crime, in Money, the scene of the murder, an already-growing reaction was setting in against outside interference. A good many intelligent people here feel that the NAACP deliberately aggravated the local populace in order to create a propaganda martyr, on the assumption that if the two defendants, Milam and Bryant, were convicted, its crusade would suffer. This indictment may be untrue, but the NAACP could not have gotten better results, even if it had tried. The obvious injustice of its accusations against the state has made residents more convinced than ever that they are right...
...probably a good sign that today's college student is willing to accept the ultra-liberal word of the NAACP rather than the mouthings of a Talmadge, but this is small consolation to the intelligent Southerner. In point of fact there is no need to accept any extreme. The NAACP just as much as any ultra-conservative group is helping to obscure the true picture in the South and to blur human understanding at a time when, if this country is to solve its racial problem, human understanding has never been so needed. As long as Northern liberals and Negro...
...interesting side commentary on these conditions is the total lack, apparently, of any Negro organization philanthropic or agitative, dedicated to sanitary and social uplift among the Negroes of the South. The NAACP may argue that it is strictly a political organization, yet this hardly absolves it of the responsibility to see that some reform agency exists in the Negro community. --DAVID L. HALBERSTAM...
...Dixieland schools before pressing integration. The U.S. Solicitor General has suggested flexibility of less sweeping import; he would give the Federal District Courts wide discretion in enforcing de-segregation in what they deemed the shortest practical time. In striking contrast to these arguments, however, the able attorneys for the NAACP have spoken vigorously for a Supreme Court decree that would proclaim "immediate integration of all Southern schools." The massive evidence of sociology that has engulfed the Court in the past months seems to support the NAACP solution...