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Footnotes 1409
Although it has been discussed from time to time, we have not had a Negro on our
headquarters staflf since 1926.” (Letter, August 24, 1942.)
Th^ Negro: The Southerner’s Problem (1904), p. 16.
Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe, Booker T, Washington (1916), p. 26.
Ray Stannard Baker, Following the Color Line (1908), p. 20.
89 week after the Armistice one might have observed a subtle but ominous change.
Distrust was awakened. What would be the attitude of the Negro troops when they
returned from France? Rumors filled the air, and by the time the soldiers began to
return suspicion and fear had taken deep hold upon both races. Mob violence, which had
greatly declined during the war, burst out afresh. In city after city race riots flamed up,
with casualties on both sides. The tension tightened everywhere, and with dread suspense
the Nation awaited the outcome.” {The Interracial Commission Conies of A gey leaflet
[February, 1942].)
A Practical Apfroach to the Race Problemy leaflet published by the Commission
on Interracial Cooperation (October, 1939).
Bunche, of. cit.y Vol. 3, pp. 449 ff.
Jessie Daniel Ames, Democratic Processes at Work in the Southy Refort of Com–
mission on Interracial Cooperation ig 29’"^
94 ^ (October, 1941). On the activity of the
state and local committees as of 1939-1940, see Bunche, of, cit.y Vol. 3, pp. 461 ff.
93 «\ye now have active State Committees in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. . . the ground work is now being
laid for the reorganization of active committees in Arkansas and Florida. . . . We have
the following active local or county committees: Alabama—^Jefferson County; Florida
—
Ocala; Georgia—Fulton-DeKalb County, Griffin, Macon Area (17 counties), and
Savannah; South Carolina—Charleston, Florence, Greenwood County, and Sumter
County; Texas—^Austin, Dallas, and Houston; Tennessee—Memphis. There are also
local committees in North Carolina and Virginia, but I cannot give you a current list of
these just now.
“Although the actual membership of our committees is not large, it is representa-
tive of a great many organizations through which we are able to extend our program.”
(Letter from Emily H. Clay, [August 24, 1942].)
The field staff now includes two full-time workers in addition to the white Director
of Field Work in the Atlanta Office; of the two field workers, one is a Negro.
The Interracial Commission Comes of Agey leaflet (February, 1942).
. . the Commission has refused to bind either itself or the state committees, with
rigid rules and regulations. It still refuses to dictate a program to any state or community.
It does, however, assist in setting up state and local committees and, if they request help,
will cooperate in the development of a program upon which the community agrees.”
{Ibid.)
®®The figure is an average from 1922 to 1942. (Information from Emily H. Clay,
letter, August 24, 1942.)
Information from Emily H. Clay, letter, August 27, 1942.
Quoted in Paul E. Baker, of. cit.y p. 19.
R. B. Eleazer in comment at the Seminar on American Racialism held by the
American Missionary Association Division, New York City, January 16, 1942.
Sections 7, 15, and 716 of the Penal Code of Georgia. (See Chapter ii. Sec-
tion 9.)
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