Volume 1. Number 29 Lincoln 3. Nebraska April 25, 1947
Brass Facts
So the principal point of those
who voted to kill the F.E.P.C.
bill, was that it is impossible to
&nd prejudice by legislation.
Shall we say then that we can
not legislate love into the hearts
of men, so we shall do away with
the state penitentiary and reform
schools, and let murderers and
racketeers run rampant?
No we cannot do away with
prejudice through legislation for
God only can do that. But we
L can at least take a stand against
I it and let it know that we do not
approve it, and that it cannot
exist unchallenged. Come now,
Senators, let us reason together.
We cannot legislate the appe
tite of a person yet we spend
countless dollars and spend long
hours trying to control liquor,
I and still what have we got but
t a lot of drunks. Shall we stop
spending money and time for
f the cause? I say no. But let
us fight on and hope and pray
that some day men will see the
P light.
By passing the F.E.P.C. bill we
will at least let the prejudice
people know that we are opposed
to their way. Or is that the real
reason that you voted against the
bill? If not then I would say
4hat you need to see some of
the scenes of the wars fought
for the purpose of destroying
prejudice.
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New Schools Added
To Carnegie Project
Twelve Negro colleges and uni
versities in five southern states
h&ve been added to the five-year
program designed to improve col
ege teaching, launched in 1946
by the Carnegie Foundation for
the advancement of Teaching, Dr.
O. C. Carmichael, president of
the foundation, announced today.
This expansion brings to 45 the
total number of Southern colleges
and universities participating in
the Carnegie project.
Jackie Robinson,
Rufus Clement on Radio
Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn
Dodgers’ first baseman, the first
Negro ball player to be gven a
major league berth in modern
baseball, and Dr. Rufus R. Cle
ment,president of Atlanta uni
versity, were guest experts on
“Information Please” Wednesday
night, April 23, over tbe Colum
bia Broadcasting system from
10:30 to 11 o’clock.
The program jvas a regular
Franklin P. Adams and John
Keran presentation with Clifton
Fadiman asking the questions.
Robinson, who is a UCLA grad
uate, and former star football
player, told Clifton Fadiman and
the radio audience that he was
thankful to Branch Rickey for
removing the color line from the
national sport. He said that the
Dodger players were fine fellows
and he is enjoying his big league
experience.
“There is a lot of difference
between major league and AAA
baseball,” said Robinson. “A fel
low has to keep using his best
thinking all the time in the ma
jors. However, I believe I’ll
make the grade; at least I shall
make the best effort of my life
to do so,” he said.”
Dr. Clement, who received his
Master’s and Doctor of Philoso
phy degrees from Northwestern,
spoke of his work in aiding the
United Negro College fund which
is conducting its fourth annual
appeal to raise $1,300,000 for 33
Negro colleges.
Dr. Clement’s mother 'is Mrs.
Emma Clement who was chosen
the American Mother of 1946 last
year by the Golden Rule Found
ation.
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Minister Reappointed
Rev. G. W. Harper was reap
pointed to Newrman Methodist for
a second year. Other changes in
clude, Rev. Geo. Hancock to the
Denver, Colo, pastorate and Rev.
J. J. Johnson, former Denver pas
tor is now District Superintendent
of the Topeka district.
MARY McLEOD BETHUNE LEADING EDUCATOR
One of the foremost educators
in America today is Mrs. Mary
McLeod Bethune, founder of
Bethune-Cookman* college, as
well as the National Council of
Negro women.
From a humble beginning as
a daughter and sister of slaves,
she has become one of the 50
greatest women America has pro
duced and has spent a busy life
fighting for equal opportunities—
regardless of race or sex. She is
known by all those with whom
she comes in contact, by the af
fectionate term of “ma” Bethune
One leading national magazine
dubbed her “the First Lady of
her race.”
She was born in Mayesville,
South Carolina in 1875, as the
last of 17 children and the only
one to be born free. Her educa
tion began when the first free
school for Negroes was estab
lished in her district. At that
time, little Mary had to walk
five miles each way to and from
school, and at night would teach
her family the things which she
had learned.
A charitable dressmaker in
Denver, Mary Crissman, learned
of her struggles and offered to
pay for her college training. She
went to Scotia Seminary in Con
cord, North Carolina where she
was introduced to the mysteries
of Latin, math, geography, and
science, all the while working in
the school laundry and kitchen to
make ends meet.
Mrs. Bethune remembers these
years at Scotia as having “broad
ened my horizon and given me
my first intellectual contacts
with white people, for the school
had a mixed faculty.
“The white teachers taught me
that the color of a person’s skin
has nothing to do with his brains
and that color, caste or class dis
tinctions are evil things.”
From Scotia, she took up a
succession of teaching jobs, and
in 1899, married a fellow teacher,
Albert Bethune. It was after this
her dream of Bethune-Cookman
had its start.
Spurred by a determination to
do something for hundreds of
Negroes who had been brought
together for construction work,
she opened a school for their
children in 1904, Daytona Beach,
Florida.Her entire capital was
$1.50. If children could not pay,
no charge was made, with a nom
inal fee for others.
For financial aid, she visited
the swank Florida hotels, and
hammered away at the theme of
a decent education for Negroes.
One of her first backers was Mr.
James M. Gamble, partner of the
Proctor and Gamble soap firm.
Another Florida visitor, left the
income from a $67,000 trust fund
to the college upon his death.
The school was formerly called
the Daytona Normal and Indus
trial institute, but later merged
with a men’s school, Cookman
institute, to become the present
educational Bethune - Cookman
college. It boasts a faculty of 32
instructors, 14 modern buildings
and a 30-acre campus.
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