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1410 An American Dilemma
Emily H. Clay, memorandum, August, 1942.
102 Practical Approach to the Race Problem,” op. cit.
Letter, August 13, 1942.
Bunche, of, cit,^ Vol. 4, p. 551.
Ibid, Vol. 4, pp. 557 flF.
Questionnaire returned by Arthur Raper, formerly Research Secretary of the
Commission, February 26, 194O; cited in ibid,y Vol. 3, p. 460.
‘‘Six of the eight State Committees . . . have dues paying memberships, as follows:
Alabama—61, $2.00; Georgia—191, $2,00; Kentucky—155, $i.OO; Texas—135,
$5.00; Mississippi—120, $2.00; South Carolina—137, $i.oo. Some of the local or
county committees also have dues, among these the Fulton-DeKalb and Macon Area
Committees, to which the members pay fifty cents annually.” (Emily H. Clay, letter,
August 24, 1942.)
The Crisis (July, 1918), p. iii. (Italics ours.)
N,A,A,C,P, Press Release (December 12, 1941).
110 The story is told by Earl Brown, “American Negroes and the War,” HarfePs
Magazine (April, 1942), pp. 545-552.
A. Philip Randolph, National Director, March-on-Washington movement, Madison
Square Garden, June 16, 1942, pp. 1 3-1 4.
This demand is not only raised by critical Negro intellectuals (see Chapter 38,
Section 5), but also by many conciliatory white friends of the Negro cause. Guy B.
Johnson, for instance, in a commencement address at a Virginia Negro college (published
in the Virginia State College Gazette [December, 1939]) pointed out:
“The . , . great need in the strategy of the Negro group is an effective organization.
Now I realize that there are many organizations, but there is not one which has the con-
fidence of anything like a majority of the Negro population . . .
“An organization such as I have in mind should be race-wide, drawing support from
all segments of the Negro population. It should be militant but not so militant as to
scare off the majority of Negroes who have to earn their bread and butter in the South.
It should combine the idealism of the N.A.A.C.P. with the patience and opportunism
of the Southern Commission on Interracial Cooperation. It should be realistic in its
tactics.” (lbid,y p. 12.)
And Johnson adds:
“I am aware that all this sounds like the rankest sort of opportunism. That Is exactly
what it is, and, in my humble opinion, that is exactly what it takes to form a good
strategy for a minority group organization. But whether you agree with me or not on
this point, I believe you will agree that the Negro’s bargaining power would be much
stronger if he could consolidate his forces into one organization which would com-
mand the respect and the support of many thousands of Negroes in all walks of life.”
{lbid,y p. 14; compare the discussion in The Crisis [July, 1939], p. 209 and [Septem-
ber, 1939] pp. 271-272.)
Race Adjustment (1908), p. 24.
Negro Americans, What Now? pp. 81 and 87.
The World Crisis and the Negro Peofle Today, p, 14,
Ibid,, p. 21.
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