Keeping Negroes in Their Place
As
Some Pro-Segregationists See It:
The Southern Way of Life?
By
Ben Price (AP Newsfeature Writer)
The Charlotte Observer
(December
12, 1956)
Charleston S.C.--(AP)--The South, from Virginia to Texas,
focuses much of its thinking on what has come to be called
"the Southern way of life."
This insistence on a particular way of life sometimes
puzzles the rest of the nation. Boiled down it appear to amount to
this:
The white man in the South, who governs the area, owns its
biggest farms, runs its biggest banks and businesses, is torn
between his often very genuine affection for the Negro as an
individual and his belief that Negroes, as a race, should
"keep their place."
In effect, this often amounts to political, economic and
social subordination for the Negro. The white man explains he
believes this is the only way the two races can live together
harmoniously.
To some, Southerners express concern that if the Negro is
"allowed to mix," the result could be racial
mongrelization. There is fear too that in some areas which are
predominantly Negro in population, the Negroes could gain
political control and take over governments.
The southern white man has a long history of defending his
relationship with the Negro, first as a slave owner and after the
Civil War as a "white supremacist."
By and large he is convinced that no one outside the South
really understands--or can understand--this position.
In defending their way of life southerners have
re-developed the doctrine of states' rights to protect white
supremacy. It holds that the internal affairs of a state,
including segregation and voting, should be left to the state and
not be subject to federal interference of any sort.
In no other region since the Civil war have state
governments taken such steps to circumvent a high court ruling as
did the Southern states in the aftermath of the May 17, 1954
Supreme Court decision holding segregation in public schools
unconstitutional.
Seven states--Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, and Louisiana--have said in
essence they will not abide by that decision.
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Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
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W. E. B. Du Bois’
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