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Minneapolis Spokesman
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
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In Columbia, S.C., Morris E. Abrams criticized the South's poor government to the Southern Regional Council's South Carolina division, blaming racial discrimination against Negroes for bad schools, roads, economic waste, and constitutional violations since the Civil War.
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Government; Says Speaker
Columbia, S. C.- (ANP)- The South has some of the world's worst government, Morris E. Abrams of Atlanta, newly elected member of the Southern Regional Council. last week told the South Carolina division of the SRC.
"We have some of the worst government In the world in the South." Abrams said. "I don't know about this state, but in Georgia we have some terrible schools, penitentiaries and roads,
"The reason is that we don't vote for good schools or good penitentiaries, but we vote for the best method of keeping the Negro down."
Abrams explained that by keeping the Negro down the South was keeping itself down, and was violating the federal constitution.
He declared:
"There was a time when the South was an integral part of the constitutional government. Since the Civil war. however, the South has had no president. has had no first rate statesmen accepted by the entire country.
"We have also paid a terrible economic price. . . . We are wasting much of our human resources by keeping the fit worker from the job of his maximum usefulness by discriminatory practices."
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Columbia, S. C.
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Last Week
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Morris E. Abrams of Atlanta, newly elected member of the Southern Regional Council, told the South Carolina division of the SRC that the South has some of the world's worst government. He stated that in Georgia there are terrible schools, penitentiaries and roads because people vote for methods to keep the Negro down, which keeps the South down and violates the federal constitution. He noted that since the Civil War, the South has had no president, no first-rate statesmen accepted by the entire country, and has paid a terrible economic price by wasting human resources through discriminatory practices.