like you that hurt the Negro cause
rather than aid it. In other words, you smell faintly of the rabble- rouser, such as the Abolitionists in the pre-CiviL war period whose cause even Abraham Lincoln, the Negroes’ great friend, would not join because they were too radical and stirred up more trouble than good. I do not know why you decided to be the great defender of the Ncgroes here but I am sure they did not ask you to aid them. Perhaps you have recently read “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and it shocked you or perhaps you haven’t anything better to write about . .Sincerely yours,
George Criminger
EVEN CARBONDALE and several other Southern Illinois towns have separate schools for Negroes and whites and that this in itself has caused sme comment as to whether these schools should be entitled to state aid.
When a student goes into the teaching field, he might be in one of those school systems and would be able to help concerning this difficult problem of discriminating school systems. Other Southern students as they leave college will be able to help in their own small j way. (A neutral or non-committal
attitude will not help much.)
In my first editorial concerning race. I wrote, “The race problem is not one that can best he solved by crusades or wars—it must be whipped by a more tolerant thinking concerning the various races.”
Is that what you call “rabblerousing?”
Sincerely,
Bill Hollada, editor
Daily Egyptian Diversity News Archive (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
Daily Egyptian Diversity News Archive (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
