Atlanta Daily World

Randolph Asks Ike To Discuss Africa In Talks
NEW YORK, N.Y. Pointing to the recent outrages perpetrated upon African natives in South Africa and Kenya, East Africa by the South African and British governments, and the apparent trend by the British government to use internal conflicts in Nigeria as an excuse to postpone granting of independence to Nigeria, A. Philip Randolph, international president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, wrote a letter to President Eisenhower before his departure to the Bermuda Conference of the three great powers, the United States, Great Britain and France, urging him to raise the question of colonialism in Africa in this conference.
Mr. Randolph stated that Africans are on the march toward self-determination, freedom and justice which no force on earth can stop and they must be made to see and feel, by deed, that Russian Communists are not the only champions of revolutions for nationalism and revolt against landlordism, poverty, disease, illiteracy and tyranny, but that the leaders of the Western democracies and especially, the United States, a power which possesses no colonies and seeks none, stand definitely against colonialism and all its evil works, and for a moral order of dignity and decency for all mankind, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry.
He continued, "The philosophy of freedom, fraternalism and friendship alone can prevent the teeming millions of black men whose backs are burdened by the weight of centuries of oppression from being lured into the orbit of world Communism and keep them in the family of free men."