The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 75, No. 296, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1968 Page: 4 of 14
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whose plight was its only real
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class continues to view itself
"But he faces a hang-up in
doing anything all in the civil
rights movement or for the
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because Negroes don't have the
factories in which to work."
' The masses of Negroes are
now starkly aware of the fact
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Negroes in white-collar jobs has
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and not to be held up as window newspaper’s society pages
dressing." Harding believes "The fch--------
While 23 per cent of the 21
million Negroes make $7,000 a
mand at Negro forums and on
the Negro campus, says the
around the nation’s middle-class has a six year-old daughter.
Negro are crumbling as he finds "A non-white child living in a
himself in a scramble for the nonwhite neighborhood attend-
leadership of his own race and ing an all non-white school is
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"Ideally, it’s good to say, ‘we
are going to ask peaceably for
what we want.*’ But you ask,
and you don’t get it. What do
you do then?”
point out to whites just how few
their numbers are and how
badly the rest of the race has
it.' Harding says
'Oklahoma
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ensemble (a woman Negro
doctor* wore to the Urban
League's equal opportunity din-
ner It was a mink dress, jacket
and matching hat. She looked
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Charles Martin, a Negro
foreman in Tampa, Fla., put it
another way. "Negroes don't
ago: wedding cost over $40,000;
honeymoon in Jamaica: couple
wants fairy tale mariage to last
forever "
Negro militants are telling the
black middle class that they are
deluding themselves with such
actions Howard Fuller, a Negro
lecturer at the University of
North Carolina, calls it "black
separatism."
"The brother in the ghetto
eels the black middle class
does not care about him, and
us true," Fuller told students
at Negro North Carolira College
in Durham.
The middle class has be
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agree that the civil rights
movement of the past 10 years
has been directed by the
middieclass Negro, primarilv
for rights that take money to
enjoy. }
This means eating in desegre-
gated restaurants, sleeping in
desegregated hotels or buy ing a
beter home
• in the present doldrums of
the civil rights movemen:."
says Negro psychologist Dr
Kenneth B Clark, "the cleava-
ges between the masses of
Negroes and middle-class
Negroes have become more
clear"
rate themselves
black brothers and
for example, describe
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class Negro proposa that dates
to the early 1900‛s and Booker
T. Washington. Considered an
"Uncle Tom" by many Negroes
today, Washington advocated
black-owned business, employ-
ing Negroes spending their
salaries at more Negro busines-
ses, creating more jobs for
predominately white Negroes in an ever-expanding
Deemend says. “I cycle.
- -t Mrs. Lola Salter, 40, the wife
middle of a successful Negro Insurance
■ ’ - salesman in New York, illus-
trats the confusion the issue
drawn among the Negro middle-
class.
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middle-class Negroes
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Herb Cox, 55, of Waterloo
Iowa, firmly entrenched in the
Negro middle .class, f -
disparity is rhe fault of the
lower-class Negro himself
Says Others "Jealous"
Cox is an elevator operator,
for a meat packing company
and holds a part-time job as a
radio disc jockey He says the
slum Negro is "jealous" of his
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separatist’ movement to
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Ten years ago, when Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr was
leading the Negro boycott of
city buses in Montgomery. Ala ,
11 per cent of the nation's
Negro families made $7,000 a
year or more By last year that
figure had grown to 28 per cent.
faces the dilemma of sacrificing
their education in poor ghetto
schools or movinrg back out.
more Even if he lives in the ghetto,
today white America must not think
making more morey ,h* middle class -Wo is the mepg M nave
before By contrast solution to the race problem." come back to the white
the Negro in the city slum and Dr. Vincent Harding, a young because Neorne don*
on the Southern farm has seen Negro historian much in de-
his living standard remain
unchanged, or in many cases. mi, —
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lead the nation simply by his
way of life.
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nation's whites are at or above
that level, or nearly twice as
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worsen.
The White House's latest
statistical analysis of the
nation s 21 million Negroes
illustrates the gap
in the grip of a revolution that I not receiving an equitable
is changing his way of life education regardless of the
There are more Negroes in quality of the education simply
the ranks of the American because the child is not being
middle class than ever before adequately prepared to partici-
and their numbers are growing pate in a ।
in proportion to the slum society," Desmond says,
dwellers and sharecroppers who believe busing is essential to
still compose more than two- achieve this goal."
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Negro author Betty De embrace to black consciousness
Ramus said afler last summer's, and racial pride
Detroit riots, "middle-class “He is beginning to hang
Negro leadership, which had some Afro-American art on the ।
boasted of its ability to freely wall and doesn't feel so self- 1
buy a home almost wherever he
pleases, open housing is not as
big an issue with him as with
the ghetto Negro,
in the series of UPI
interviews with middle-class
Negro couples in New York,
Washington, Tampa, Cleveland,
Detroit, Atlanta. Boston, Hart-
ford, Conn., Los Angeles and
Waterloo, the only couple to
respond “housing” when asked
what aspect of segregation
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progress and "envies" him
I’m well-kept and I did it on
my own," Cox says His
comment is not typical of the
middle-class Negro Yet a
substantial number of middle-
class Negroes hold the ghetto
Negro in come npt
United Press International
interviews on the and at
home with middle-class Negro
couples in to large and small
US cites from Los Angeles to
Waterbury Conn, found deep
division within the class on
W hat its role and responsibility
Wi be in the future
Cox and his wife, who is a
nurse, have a combined income
of about $9,000 a year Their
daughter Karen, 6. attends first
grade at an allNegro school in
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primarily benefited a very
small percentage of middle
class Negroes, while their
predicament remained the same
or worsened," Clark says
Respond To Change
In.some ways the Negro
in middle class has responded to
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the staff college. ’ 8 student at
Pressed to say "yes or no” in
advocating violence as a tactic,
Anti-Semitism, ascribed to Mrs.. Salter, replied, "I like
SNCC today, was found to be resuitsu and then declined a
widespread among middleclass ’ direct "yes" or "no"
Negroes 10 years ago in "The Despite the middle-class Ne-
Black Bourgeoisie," Negro soci' 8 avowed rejection of the
ologist E Franklin Frazier's I poor Megro, federal studies say
study of the Negro middle class. I thatath e group is "overwhel-
Frazer's work rejected econ- mingly, concentrated in poverty
omic black power, calling it a as
myth put out by the Negro r. . M.Per Cent
middle class in hopes it could win eight of the nation's major
..... metropolitan areas, more than
90 per cent of the middle-class
'Negro families live in the
ghetto.
minister and married a white
New York woman in the United
_ Nations chapel, the event
Signs of Restiveness captured eight pages in "Jet", a
says the Negro leaders such as Dr weekly, pocket-size Negro ma.
■ Martin, Luther King and the gazine.
The headlines "Romance
began less than four morths
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the.s conclusion that enogh
middleclass support of violence
I and of the Watts riot existed to
■ shatter some old beliefs
I "We suspect that many white
I persons have viewed the mid-
I dleclass Negro group as a
[ moderating influence in the
I racial struggie " wrote Ray.
mood J Murphy and James M
I “atson authors of the study.
We find little room for such
an optimistic appraisal if our
analysis is correct the prob-
ems of urban life for the
Negro even in the palmlined
spaciousness of Los Angeles,
have grown acute and a
significant number of Negroes,
successful or unsuccessful, are
emotionally prepared for vi-
olence as a strategy or solution
,u .end the problems ni
segregation exploitation and
subordination
Standing Ucertain
Major segments of the Negro
middle-class appear uncertain
about where they stand or nets
and noience, but it is certain
'•ha: most are at least
considering supvort of •
The Herb Cox family in
Waterko, Iowa says it strawtv
dislikes H Rap Broun and
Stokely Carmichael But the
Coxes think the riots of the past ,
summers "shook up the white 1
The prevalent feeling appears — _______________________
Coinrod pon, NAAI ’ 3 to be that middle-class Negroes and cover up the true sit nt.c
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But the white man isn't.
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Whereever you go he s going to
build a ghetto around your
bead Fuller contends
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Caught between segregation
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and an increasing hostility from
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most were the Coxes in
Waterloo.
"A man has to feel he has the
right and privilege to move
where he wants to,” Cox said.
_ Charles Martin, the foreman
in Tampa, said he felt
segregation most on family
trips. “When I pull into a filling
station, the first think I ask is
about a restroom my wife and
children can use.”
mhemnebe r s"S odues paying the Congress on Racial Equality by being examples of pre
League, the National Associa-
“I don’t just pull in and let
the family go to the restroom or
.....-- auenucu vassar, smun I not .xn1a;n .e uves get a drink of water until I ask.
onascholarshups.relect of nonwhite ttami8e Prportron happnver can tell what might
" Few Directly Involved
Only a few of the couples
paternsaprsvalnt in metropols Vtved mediwsrigdtrsotiyata
power organization and move-
jrJTHE CHICKASHA DAILY EXPRESS. Wtdiwday, January 31, 1968 *
Middle Class Negro Has Two Problems, Involvement And Identity
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Faces A Dilemma
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Drew, Charles C. The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 75, No. 296, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1968, newspaper, January 31, 1968; Chickasha, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1865117/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.