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Southern Negro Political Voice Is Becoming Steadily StrongerBy LYLK C. WILSON tnitrd Press InternationalWASHINGTON (LTD—Not just around the corner but fur down the road there appears to be one decisive home-grown answer to the South's problem of racial integration of it* schools.That answer would be a resounding “aye m favor of integration It could and may coine from increased political activity by southern Negroes. The Ne-groc vote already i a political powerhouse in the Tinted States.James A Farley always was easy in his mind during FDR's campaign when In* could figure that he had the Negro vote going for his candidate Farley estimated that the Negro vote was the balance of power between parties m 17 substantially industrial states outside the SouthSouthern Negroes are more numerous actually and proportionately than are Negroes in the North Disinterest disenfranchisement and one thing and another, however, so diminished voting activity by southern Negroes that they had practically no political impact That situation began to change some time ago and the change continues at an accelerating pace I he federal civil rights bill of 1957 was intended to speed the movement alrcadv under way.The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is campaigning to registei three mil-ic 1M0t 1.300000It is calculated that m 10 southern states plus Texas there are about 9.100.0(H) Negroes and 27.-500-000 white persons. 75 per cent of the aggregate population being white and 25 per cent Negro. The percentage of Negroes in these states is calculated as follows:Virginia 22 per cent; Tennessee lfi; Arkansas 22; North Carolina 26; South Carolina .9; Georgia 31: Florida 22; Alabama 32; Mississippi 45; Louisiana 33; and Texas 13. It is obvious that if Negroes in any of those states other than Texas and Tennessee voted their potential strength and voted to gethcr. they would become a political power of tremendous possibilities.That is what may come about and with it. perhaps, pressures on the southern political structure so severe as to bring about a real two-party system. Moreover, in local elections voting Negroes might put into state capitols and county court houses officials as enthusiastically in favor of intermingling the races as some of the present office holders are opposedPolitical stature of the Negro voter is increasing in the North a* well as in the South. It was estimated a year ago that the nonwhite (mostly Negro) population of metropolitan New York City had increased 42 5 per cent since 1950. The Negj;o increase was more than 360,000IHSCRIMIN \T10SHARTFORD. Conn —(LTD — The top floor of a department store here is the only one in the building that’s not air conditioned. That’s where the executives have their offices
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Washington Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa, US
Mon, Oct 06, 1958
Page 8
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