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Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia
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A Black coal miner stabs his wife, a former Pittsburgh Courier columnist, to death after she attends an integrated racial meeting against his wishes, amid family conflict involving their children throwing rocks at white neighbors. The article from a segregationist perspective uses this to warn against racial mixing, citing media suppression in Chicago and praising Roy V. Harris.
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Chicago Newspapers, TV, Radio Ban Together To Suppress Racial Strife News
The Pittsburgh Courier, the leading Negro newspaper in America, gives us the finest illustration of what happens when you start mixing the races.
A recent issue carried a story of where a Negro wife had been stabbed to death by her husband.
This Negro woman had once been a columnist on this troublesome Pittsburgh Courier and was stabbed to death by her coal-mining husband.
Attending Racial Meeting
The Negro man came home and found his wife had gone and left her three children alone. She had been attending an integrated racial meeting against her husband's wishes and instructions.
On the day of the killing, the three children of this Negro woman were sent home by their grandmother because she had caught them throwing rocks at a white neighbor's children.
When she came home that night, her husband criticized her for her activities with "unsegregated community social activities" while neglecting their children and allowing them to throw rocks at white children.
Stabbed To Death
The Negro woman then got mad and went to her mother's. She was followed by her husband and a fight ensued. She threw things at her husband and fought him viciously.
The fight ended with the Negro man picking up a butcher knife and stabbing her to death.
The Pittsburgh Courier said:
"Now the three children are with grandmother crying themselves to sleep."
Their mother was dead and their father was in jail.
Courier Reader Writes
A reader of the Augusta Courier writes us a letter and gives us this story. In his letter he said:
"And I thought that story ought to be required reading for every race-mixing advocate in America. For it is just a prelude to the chaos awaiting our land if we don't put an end to the insane dreams of these people who, though largely non-Negro, are masquerading as NAACP."
Our reader ended his story with this statement:
"Thank God white Georgians have a champion in Roy V. Harris the man who never blows hot and cold."
Furnishes Typical Example
This story, clipped from the Pittsburgh Courier furnishes us a typical example of what we can expect from race-mixing efforts.
Negro children and white children will not be able to get along. They will be throwing rocks, pop bottles and everything else at one another.
When the fighting begins between the Negro and white children, the grown-ups will inevitably be drawn into the conflict. Shootings and killings will follow and every type of violence imaginable will result.
Killings and Killings
When they start mixing, the killings will not be limited to Negro men killing their wives. There will be white people killing Negroes and Negroes killing whites. Violence and killings will follow just as sure as the night follows the day.
The newspapers and the magazines over the nation are suppressing the news to keep the people from knowing what's going on.
As a typical illustration of this fact, the newspapers, the television and radio stations in Chicago have banded together for the purpose of suppressing all news about racial violence until the story has grown so old it cannot effect either the readers or listeners.
Police Are Used
They do not tell you that it takes three hundred policemen every day in the year, and has for eighteen months, to keep order in one housing project housing four hundred and twenty six families in the City of Chicago.
When they moved a few Negro families into this white housing project, it took thirteen hundred and fifty policemen for a time to keep order among these four hundred and twenty-six families.
Now, it takes nearly one policeman for every family to stand guard and to keep order.
As the National Association keeps pushing the Negro further into white areas and into white activities, the friction mounts and there is no power on earth that can keep it from getting worse.
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Recent Issue
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A Black wife attends an integrated meeting against her coal-miner husband's wishes, leading to argument over neglecting children who threw rocks at white neighbors; she flees to mother's, fight ensues, husband stabs her to death with butcher knife; children with grandmother, father in jail.