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/ol. 3, No. 65 , Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper Thursday, October 20. 1949
I Texas Position In Sweatt Case
Attacked As NAACP Files Brief
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA). The position of the
State of Texas on the question of the admission o£,Herman
Marion Sweatt to the University of Texas Law School is
attacked in a reply brief filed in the United States Supreme
' Court last Tuesday.
Under the theory advanced by the State in its brief in
opposition to a review of the decision of Texas courts dis
missing Sweatt’s petition for a writ of mandamus to compel
his admission, Texas can use race alone for classification for
governmental purposes and such
agjelassifications cannot be chal
lenged.
The State also advanced the
theory that the effect of the en
forced racial segregation of one
•group of law students is not a
factor to be considered in decid
ing whether equal facilities are
offered to colored applicants for
vi,, legal education.
In their reply brief, counsel for
Sweatt maintain that the right to
be free from racial discrimina
tion is one of the most important
guaranties of personal freedom
which the Constitution secures.
That right cannot be pro
tected by the use of a formula
which seeks to evade rather than
enforce equal protection, they
argue.
CLAIM OVERRULING
Sweatt’s lawyers also maintain
that the petition for a review of
the case and the supporting brief
show that decisions of the Su
preme Court, “all but expressly
overruled the “separate but
equal” doctrine of Plessy vs. Fer
guson.
“Access to public education is
vital to our democratic way of
life,” the reply brief declares,
adding:
“Legal education is training for
service to the State. Implicit in
the meaning of democracy is that
its rights and obligations apply
to all citizens without regard to
race, color, creed or national
origin.
Since the Sweatt case has been
pending a colored student, Her
man Barnett, 23, of Austin,
Texas has been admitted to the
r inedical branch of the University
of Texas at Galveston.
He is there on a temporary
basis but is attending classes
with other students on an unse
gregated basis.
Barnett is an honor graduate
from Samuel Huston College and
was an Air Corps officer during
the war. He was one of thirty
five colored students who ap
plied for admission to the Uni
versity of Texas graduate school,
the dental school at Houston, and
the Galveston medical branch.
At the time, they were denied
admission.
PRECIPITATED LAW SCHOOL
As a result of Sweatt’s suit to
compel his admission to the Uni
versity of Texas Law School, the
Texas 'aw school for colored
students vas set up. It first was
located at Austin and then later
removed to Houston.
The record, filed in the Su
preme Court, does not disclose
that there have actually been any
students in it, either in Austin
or Houston.
The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People is supporting Sweatt in
^ his petition for a review of the
decisions of the Texas courts.
Briefs as friends of the court
L have been filed in the case by
the Federal Council of the
I Churches of Christ in America,
the Committee of Law Teachers
Against Segregation in Legal
Education, the American Jewish
Committee, B’nai B’rith (Anti
De nnation League), the Na
[ tioual Citizens’ Council on Civil
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Rights, the American Jewish
Congress, and the American Vet
erans’ Committee.
Winner
MOZELLA J. JACKSON,
Oklahoma City, Okla., a gradu
ate of the College of Liberal Arts
and Science, Wilberforce univer
sity, Ohio, was awarded the Na
tional Urban League’s Adam Hat
Fellowship for a year’s study at
the New York School of Social
Work, Columbia university, it
was announced this week by the
fellowship committee of the na
tion social work interracial or
ganization. Miss Jackson plans
to enter the field of medical so
cial work upon her graduation
next June. She was selected from
among a large group at an un- .
assembled competitive examina
tion open to college graduates.
The fellowship, established
three years ago, with an annual
gift of $1,200, provided by the
Adam Hat Welfare Fund, facili
tates graduate studies for Negro
students preparing for leadership
roles in professional social work.
She is the 115th winner of
Urban League fellowships since
the League began these awards
in 1910.
Your Chest Dollar
Helps Support
The Urban League
The Community Chest drive
which began last Saturday with
a goal of $270,203, will be in full
swing when this reaches your
door. The annual drive, the 28th
for Lincoln, is really 26 cam
paigns rolled into one and en
ables you to contribute to wel
fare and social service agencies
according to their needs.
Louis W. Horne, executive sec
retary for the Lincoln chest told
a Voice reporter that this year
the Lincoln Urban League, one
of the Chest’s agencies, will re
ceive $11,000 (or about 4.1 mills
of your community chest dollar)
of its $13,800 budget through the
chest, the remainder coming
from memberships and rents. Of
this, the league’s quota is $350.
The Urban League maintains
five employees to actuate its
program of recreation and serv
ices. So when you give this year,
remember—give enough!
Nationwide Protest Of Army
Policy Called For By ACHR
Local NAACP
Calls Special
Meet Tonight j
Membership
Roundup Set
For Oct. 31
The Lincoln branch of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People is
readying for increased activity
this fall.
A special meeting has been
called for tonight, Thursday, at
g p. m. in the Urban League
rooms at 2030 T Street.
Rev. Robert Moody, president
of the local group said the pur
pose of the meeting is for the
appointment of a nominating
committee for 1950 officers. Also
at the meeting, plans for
“NAACP Day” in Lincoln
churches will be completed. The
special day, scheduled for Octo
ber 30, wlil feature special ser
mons and talks emphasizing the
local and national aspects and ac
tivities of the association.
On the following day, Monday,
October 31, a Halloween dinner
and membership roundup will
take place. The dinner will be
served at 6 p. m. with a program
under the direction of &lrs. Basilia
Bell, membership chairman. The
October 31st 'meeting will be held
in the Urban League auditorium
and reservations may be made by
calling 2-4673.
Jordan Returns
To 8tli and Towne
LOS ANGELES. (ANP). The
Rev. Frederick D. Jordan was
reappointed to the popular First
AME church here by Bishop Or
monde D. Walker, at the recent
session of the Southern California
Annual conference.
There has been some dissatis
faction among some of the min
isters in the area and some of the
members are reported to have
been restless, but the Rev. Jordan
is widely recognized for his serv
ice to the community.
Among the community projects
Jed by the popular pastor are the
establishing of a foundation for
i the poor and distressed of the
church and community, the es
tablishment of a Federal Credit
union in the church, and a debt
free $100,000 Community Youth
center.
! Youngest Editor
To Omaha Paper
OMAHA. Neb. (ANP). Clyde O
Jackson, 21, becomes editor of the
I Omaha Guide Nov. 1, and will
have the distinction of being the
youngest editor of a Negro news
paper.
Mr. Jackson, who has worked
with the Chicago Defender and the
Houston Informer, is a graduate
of Tuskegee institute.
Bishop A. P. Shaw to Speak
Bishop A. P. Shaw of Baltimore,
Md., presiding bishop of the
Methodist church, will be in Lin
coln, Sunday, Oct. 23rd, to speak
at Newman Methodist church at
7:30 p. m.
A special program is being ar
ranged.
Bishop Shaw is regarded as a
i very eloquent speaker.
Defense Secretary Johnson Asked to
Cancel Approval of Army Plans For
Abolishing Segregation in its Ranks
WASHINGTON.—The American Council on Human
Rights Thursday called for a nation-wide protest against
the so-called new Army policy on the utilization of Negroes
announced by Secretary Gordon Gray last Friday.
Citing the new policy as a backward rather than a
forward step, Elmer W. Henderson, the Council’s director,
asked the 1200 local chapters of the seven affiliated organi
zations that compose ACHR to send in an avalanche of
IS IT FOR ME?
If might be a big, red apple—or a
sailboat—or a candle-lighted birth
day cake that brings such joy and
sparkle to this little boy’s happy
face. Or it might be faith—faith in
the people in his little world, and
the security and care they‘so lov
ingly give him. Red Feather services
bring to such little fellows and their
families health, recreation and family
counseling. You help support many
Red Feather services through your
Community Chest. When you make
your pledge this year, give enough
••all Red Feather services.
Everybody benefits . . . Everybody
gives
COMMUNITY CHEST
When you give . . . give enough
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Tri-State YWCA
Holds Conference
One hundred and sixty young
women from Kansas, Nebraska
and Missouri were in Lincoln for
the annual conference of em
ployed girls who are participants
in Y.W.C.A. activities. Each fal^
a similar conference is# held in
one of the three states and all
over the United Strtes.
The conference is held to help
girls learn to build leadership in
their own communities, to teach
new program techniques and to
help the girls see their relation
ship to the total work of the
Y.W.C.A.
Chef Killed in Wreck
MEADE, Kas. (ANP). Among
the five persons killed when a
Chicago bound Rock Island pas
senger train piled up in a washed
out road bed last week, was a
Negro chef, Joe Robinson, 62.
Four cars and a diesel unit of
the California to Chicago ^ train
left the rails. Two of the cars
overturned and partly submerged
in a water frHed ditch.
letters and telegrams to President
Truman urging him to institute a
polity of non-segregation in the
army that would be more in ac
cord with the policies set by the
navy and air force and more in
accord with his own executive
order on equality of training and
opportunity in the armed serv
ices.
The council also asked Secre
tary of Defense Louis Johnson to
cancel his approval of the new
army policy declaring it incred
ible that he would approve a
policy so out of line with the
navy and air force especially
after he had rejected a similar
one last spring.
COMMITTEE WIRED
The council also wired each
member of the Fahy committee
| on equality of training and op
i portunity in the armed services
to resign in protest if the new
I policy is not changed and im
proved. The Fahy committee was
1 set up by President Truman to
effectuate his executive order on
equality in the armed services.
The council declared the new
j army policy would have a re
, tarding effect on the navy and
| air force as the army is the larg
est and dominant branch of the
defense establishment.
“This new policy raises a seri
ous question about who runs the
army,” said Henderson. “Is it run
by the president and secretary
of defense, or by prejudiced sub
ordinates? Can an order of the
! commander-in-chief be vetoed
by lower echelon officers blinded
by their own bigotry?”
LEADERS URGE REJECTION
NEW YORK—President Tru
man was urged this week to
overrule Secretary of Defense
Johnson and disapprove the
“new” army' program for treat
ment of Negro enlisted men “be
cause of its failure to spell out
the elimination ot segregation.”
i In a letter to the chief execu
! tive, Grant Reynolds and A.
Phillip Randolph, co-chairmen of
\ the committee against Jim Crow
; in military service tran training,
112 East 19th street, New York
City, accused army brass hats of
“brazen insubordination to the
stated goal of the commander-in
chief” by their obstinate reten
tion of all-Negro units and of
racial quotas on enlistments.”
Reynolds and Randolph de
clared: “This latest paper pro
gram is another example of army
flim-flam. It is a blood brother
of the discredited and deceitful
Gillen board report. Though ap
pearing to introduce the principle
of integration into army schools
and into the system of promo
tions these concessions are de
cidedly minor. At best they will
make army life a bit easier for a
few obsequious careerists ho
never challenge the degaraing
Jim Crow customs in order to ad
vance personally.'*