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January 17, 1960
Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
What is this article about?
NAACP Labor Secretary Herbert Hill warns in a 1959 article that racial conflicts in the South, including violence at Little Rock's Central High School, are impeding industrial development by blacklisting communities and prompting economic boycotts, potentially creating a major economic crisis.
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South's Industrial Development Seen Impeded By Area Conflict
NEW YORK -The effects of racial conflict upon the southern industrial development is just beginning. It will continue to develop and may deepen into a crisis of major significance for the whole southern economy, says NAACP Labor Secretary Herbert Hill in a recent magazine article.
Writing in the Atlanta University Phylon, a scholarly quarterly review, (winter) 1959, Mr. Hill notes that mob violence and civic irresponsibility such as that at Little Rock's Central High School, sometimes automatically places a community on industry's blacklist. Order and stability in a community is essential to growth of new industry.
The NAACP labor secretary observes that in precisely those states where there has been the greatest development of new manufacturing plants the issue of the Negro's status is being posed in the sharpest terms, "sharper now perhaps than at any time since Reconstruction."
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission spokesmen have revealed that racial violence "has wiped out" the gains made by the Commission in its promotional campaign to attract new industry.
In his article entitled, "Recent Effects of Racial Conflict on Southern Industrial Development," Mr. Hill describes another serious factor now worrying the industrial South. The economic boycott is used by both races against merchants and companies accused of having partisan interests in the segregation question, he points out.
NEW YORK -The effects of racial conflict upon the southern industrial development is just beginning. It will continue to develop and may deepen into a crisis of major significance for the whole southern economy, says NAACP Labor Secretary Herbert Hill in a recent magazine article.
Writing in the Atlanta University Phylon, a scholarly quarterly review, (winter) 1959, Mr. Hill notes that mob violence and civic irresponsibility such as that at Little Rock's Central High School, sometimes automatically places a community on industry's blacklist. Order and stability in a community is essential to growth of new industry.
The NAACP labor secretary observes that in precisely those states where there has been the greatest development of new manufacturing plants the issue of the Negro's status is being posed in the sharpest terms, "sharper now perhaps than at any time since Reconstruction."
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission spokesmen have revealed that racial violence "has wiped out" the gains made by the Commission in its promotional campaign to attract new industry.
In his article entitled, "Recent Effects of Racial Conflict on Southern Industrial Development," Mr. Hill describes another serious factor now worrying the industrial South. The economic boycott is used by both races against merchants and companies accused of having partisan interests in the segregation question, he points out.
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Social Manners
Misfortune
What keywords are associated?
Racial Conflict
Southern Industry
Little Rock
Economic Boycott
Industrial Development
What entities or persons were involved?
Herbert Hill
Where did it happen?
The South, Little Rock's Central High School, Arkansas
Story Details
Key Persons
Herbert Hill
Location
The South, Little Rock's Central High School, Arkansas
Event Date
Winter 1959
Story Details
Herbert Hill argues that racial conflicts and violence in southern states are beginning to impede industrial development, placing communities on industry's blacklist, erasing promotional gains, and leading to economic boycotts against partisan businesses.