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.tit* South an opportunity to carve out' his' industrial and economic destiny, hut it has forced him to the fore as the most substantial and economically secure Negro in the world.
The Negro in New York, Newark and other supposedly liberal - centers may enjoy the privileges to eat where he pleases or go to any theatre or public' place of amusement but a Negro can’t get a license in Newark to operate a liquor package store, and there are any number of fields that he can’t enter business in other Eastern and Northern cities. But this is not true in the South, a Negro can enter any kind of busi-. ness he wishes and Southern whites will even lend -the money. Some of the largest contractors in the South are Negroes.. ■
Northern Negro dollars spent to force Southern white universities to admit Negroes will certainly not .contribute anything towards continued good race relations in the South, and race relations were' definitely on the improve until all of these school suits started.
I find more race prejudice in the East than I have found in Georgia or Mississippi. Two weeks ago 10 tourist camps refused to rent me a cabin just outside of 'Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania is one of the first states to enact a civil rights law.
If the NAACP is really interested in correcting a real evil in the school situation then it should direct its efforts toward the schools in Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, which is a little closer than the nearest Southern school target.
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