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Dorothy Schramm newspaper clippings, 1949-1955 (folder 1 of 2)

1951-11-01 Pamphlet: "The Herald" Page 25

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F.H.S.
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NEGROES NOT SECOND CLASS CITIZENS

One can hardly believe that the editorial about the Burlington Self Survey in a local newspaper on Wednesday, October 31 is the same paper which featured an editorial about an Indian who could not be buried in a cemetery in some other city. it appears that justice is more important when you're dead than when you are alive; that is, if you are colored.
There is not a single thing in the entire findings of the Burlington Survey that names a single individual or concern. it is as objective and accurate a study of the conditions relative to the colored people in Burlington as could be made. The Burlington Survey leaders never gave any assurance that it would censor the words of speakers, and one should be a bit amazed that such a thing would be expected. The hotel mentioned is directed in the main by one of the finest men this writer knows. Yet if it discriminates on the basis of color, this writer believes that it is doing wrong in that respect.
To re-inforce the argument by indicating that a religious leader might be embarrassed if he himself should demand non-segregated church activity actually does not change the situation. Should a colored person ask to be a member of this church, and sing in the choir, this pastor would be very much in favor of granting that request. Should the majority of this democratically governed church determine otherwise, it still would not make such discrimination right in the mind of the writer. And this pastor would say so, whether or not he would lose a bit of "business."
no person who actively promotes full citizenship for everyone regardless of color causes race riots. Instead those people who so readily accept a condition of second-rate citizenship for others are the cause of race trouble. To say there is no problem in Burlington is just so much nonsense. Ask any colored person how he feels when he asks for some of the simple services that white people take for granted and is refused. It is easy for a white to enjoy all the rights of citizenship, and from the vantage point of his position to caution others to be satisfied with less than his full rights of citizenship. It is the kind of color conscious attitude that has cause racial troubles and causes large portions of the world to turn to communism. Burlington does have a problem that of undemocratic attitudes of some white people.

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[[Handwriting]] F.H.S. return to J S T(?) NEGROES NOT SECOND CLASS CITIZENS One can hardly believe that the editorial about the Burlington Self Survey in a local newspaper on Wednesday, October 31 is the same paper which featured an editorial about an Indian who could not be buried in a cemetery in some other city. it appears that justice is more important when you're dead than when you are alive; that is, if you are colored. There is not a single thing in the entire findings of the Burlington Survey that names a single individual or concern. it is as objective and accurate a study of the conditions relative to the colored people in Burlington as could be made. The Burlington Survey leaders never gave any assurance that it would censor the words of speakers, and one should be a bit amazed that such a thing would be expected. The hotel mentioned is directed in the main by one of the finest men this writer knows. Yet if it discriminates on the basis of color, this writer believes that it is doing wrong in that respect. To re-inforce the argument by indicating that a religious leader might be embarrassed if he himself should demand non-segregated church activity actually does not change the situation. Should a colored person ask to be a member of this church, and sing in the choir, this pastor would be very much in favor of granting that request. Should the majority of this democratically governed church determine otherwise, it still would not make such discrimination right in the mind of the writer. And this pastor would say so, whether or not he would lose a bit of "business." no person who actively promotes full citizenship for everyone regardless of color causes race riots. Instead those people who so readily accept a condition of second-rate citizenship for others are the cause of race trouble. To say there is no problem in Burlington is just so much nonsense. Ask any colored person how he feels when he asks for some of the simple services that white people take for granted and is refused. It is easy for a white to enjoy all the rights of citizenship, and from the vantage point of his position to caution others to be satisfied with less than his full rights of citizenship. It is the kind of color conscious attitude that has cause racial troubles and causes large portions of the world to turn to communism. Burlington does have a problem that of undemocratic attitudes of some white people.