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It is a shame that the attempts at build ing racial cohesion (or adhesion) in the South has been undertaken similar to the building of the H-bomb. Much the same way in which scientists devised a nuclear reaction of 30 million degrees heat to fuse two atoms together, antagonists have fired national opinion to an unprecedented degree, and have suc ceeded in exploding an internal crisis that rivals even the H-bomb as a threat to the security of this country. What was the great provocation for splitting the country in half once again? Just what had the South done to justify this sudden cessation of its inborn tradi tion? In hopes that we might offer some in sight into southern Negro opinion (free from NAACP influence), we offer this ed itorial excerpt from the Grambling (Ne gro) State College newspaper. It was writ ten by the Bureau of Public relations and thus carried the approval of the college itself. ‘Among the thousands of persons who witnessed the thrills and patentry of last night’s game between Grambling College of Louisiana and Wiley College of Texas (at the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport) were many who saw something besides a football game—and many who wished that criticizing outsiders could have seen the colorful affair, too. “For, although on the surface it was a mere football game, behind the usual glitter of such athletic contests it was not difficult to see something far more signifi cant. No one who looked at the thousands of Negroes who converged on State Fair Stadium would say that the Southern Ne gro was held in bondage, a mishandled, unkempt, poverty-stricken, and ignorant lot. “In general appearance, in the variety of shiny vehicles in which they came, and generally in the way they deported them selves, they were substantially like any other of the millions of American football fans. It is doubtful if any members of the northern press were on hand to cover this story. ‘One could see ample evidence of sub stantial employment, prosperity and edu cational development in most of the crowd. “It is unfortunate that this side of Ne gro life in Louisiana and in the South gen erally goes unnoticed by the northern press, agitators, political rabble-rousers, and others who would put the good peo ple, white and Negro, in a bad light. Yet no one can erase the hard facts of progress and understanding lying back of the pub lic display at the Grambling-Wiley affair.” That is what Grambling College thinks of itself under Southern segregation, and they have earned the admiration of at least one editor for their determination to win racial and individual respect through per sonal pride.
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Dallas SMU Campus
Dallas, Texas, US
Fri, Nov 01, 1957
Page 11
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SC, USA 15 Feb 2026
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