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happy relationship, but on a segregated basis.”PRAISED, DENOUNCEDThis threat of economic sanctions against Negroes favoring integration was denounced by some newspapers and citizens, defended by others as a legitimate way to preserve segregation.Vincent F. Kilborn, prominent Mobile attorney, called on Montgomery Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones, president of the Alabama Bar Association, to “denounce in the name of the bar” the White Citizens Councils movement. Kilborn wired Judge Jones:The bar of Alabama, sworn to uphold the constitution of the United States and our state, and to abide by the code of ethics your illustrious father first formulated (Judge Jones’ father, once governor of Alabama, was author of a treatise on legal ethics) will be wanting in basic Christian duty toward our neighbors if we do not take the lead in crushing suchmovements as this.Most of us favor segregation, but we are unalterably against such movements as this plan to deny work, credit and basic human needs simply because some Negro exercises his right to advocate peaceably what he thinks ought to be done.We may disagree, but we must defend this right to think and speak as his own conscience dictates.THE JUDGE’S REPLYJudge Jones, in refusing to make such a denunciation as Kilborn requested, answered:The State Bar Association is always concerned with the rights and privileges of our people. Segregation is a controversial issue in our state today. Those who oppose it are using, as they have the right to do, all legal means within their power, and the forces of such social, political and economic pressures as they are able to mobilize.Those who favor segregation likewise will doubtless use all legal, social, political and economic weaoons at their dis-sippi is not a Ku Klux Kian, but our purpose is to give a direct answer to the National Association of Colored People. We have a heritage in the South for which we should ever be vigilant . . . The NAACP’s motto is ‘The Negro shall be free by 1963’— and shall we accept that?“We can’t have it, for if we do, it would ruin the economic system of the South. The men of the South are either for our council or against it. There can be no fence-straddling.”Object of the councils is, he said, “the honor-bound and Christian cause in which we are working to preserve segregation.”SUPREME COURT HITThe Rev. Mr. Clark charged in his address that the segregation issue was “catapulted upon us by nine obscure men on the Supreme Court.” He added:“The Supreme Court is not a legislative body but it is designed to follow precedent of the law and to interpret the law. It is not designed to make a declaration of policy for the nation.”Sen. Williams said:“We are charged with defying the U. S. Supreme Court. The time has come when citizens should sacrifice something for their country and we need leadership in this fight.”Williams also severely criticized leaders of the Methodist Church for their recent statements favoring integration.MARENGO MEETINGAt the Marengo county organizational meeting in Linden, Ala., Dec. 6, Alabama State Sen. Walter C. Giv-han charged that the ultimate goal of thte NAACP “is to open the bedroom doors of our white women toxl XT _______99 O___A C\C\ ...U
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Nashville Southern School News
Nashville, Tennessee, US
Thu, Jan 06, 1955
Page 9
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