Minneapolis Spokesman

What The Old South Stands For

There are today two distinct Souths the Old and the New. The Old South is fighting gallantly to preserve the status quo and to hold the Negro in perpetual subjugation. It is composed of the Old Southern Pharaohs who are resolved not to let the Negroes go. They are still fighting the war of Rebellion which the astute Old South historians have succeeded in having called the 'War Between The States'-just another way of making the South's rebellion respectable in the eyes of history.

The Old South wants to reduce the Negro to a kind of serfdom that will incapacitate him forever for full citizenship. The Old South worships segregation as its golden calf and prefers the traditions of the segregated south to the Golden Rule of Jesus Christ. The Old South makes southern tradition first and God second, if at all.

The Old South opposed, and still opposes, Negro suffrage and will oppose it until doomsday. It opposes the Supreme Court's decision on segregation and every other question that promises relief for Negroes from the rigors of segregation and race prejudice. It is opposed to Negroes sitting on juries. It was opposed to the "equal" in the "separate but equal "clause of a former decision of the Supreme court.

It was opposed to Negroes having accommodations on the dining cars and Pullmans. It was opposed to the equalization of teachers, salaries. It is opposed to single standard of legal justice before the law.

It favors lynching and violence and the Ku Klux Klan methods. In other words the Old South opposes anything that remotely promises full citizenship for Negroes. - Gordon Hancock, Richmond, Va.