THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Traditional Jewish Leadership in Rights
for Blacks Recalled in Tageblatt Editorial
Consistent and tradi-
tional Jewish leadership in
the battle for justice for the
Negroes is recalled in a fea-
ture article in the current
issue of Jewish Currents.
Reprinting an editorial
translated from the Yiddish
that appeared in the now de-
funct Yiddishes Tageblatt,
the Jewish Daily News, of
July 31, 1917, Jewish Cur-
renfs recalls the horrible
race riot in East St. Louis.
The Tageblatt_ editorial,
translated for Jewish Cur-
rents by Dr. Philip S. Foner,
appeared under the head-
line, "No Room for Race
Prejudice":
"The march down Fifth
Ave. on Saturday of 8,000
Negro men, women and
children in silent protest
against acts of discrimi-
nation and oppression
should stir the con-
science of all America.
"Pitiful wrongs and grave
acts of injustice have been
and are continued to be
committed against the
Negro and the oppression
from which he suffers is a
reflection upon the democ-
racy of the United States.
"Prejudice and race
hatred must be foreign to
the people of the United
States. The founders of the
Republic fled to these shores
because they were dis-
criminated against in the
lands of their nativity. They
sought freedom and the
right to develop, to labor
and to worship in accord-
ance with the dictates of
their conscience.
"The great majority of the
citizens of this country are
either natives of foreign
countries who have come
here to escape intolerable
conditions, or they are de-
scendants of such refugees.
"Every sympathy must
be expressed to Negroes
who are persecuted, de-
nied the opportunity of
gaining an honest liveli-
hood, lynched and driven
hither and thither.
"The inscription on one of
the banners carried in the
parade read, 'We are
maligned as lazy and mur-
dered when we work.' No
more smashing indictment
could have been uttered
against a state of affairs
which is disgraceful to the
citizenship of America.
"Neither the country nor
the Negro gains by oppres-
sion. The late Booker T.
Washington ina memorable
address delivered some
years ago before the Confer-
ence of Liberal Religions in
Philadelphia, exclaimed,.
When America freed the
Negro slaves, America freed
herself.'
"A people that persecutes
is a people enslaved. A
country in which prejudice
finds a place is not emanci-
pated and its growth is
stunted.
"The way to improve
the status of the Negro
does not lie through
lynching and expulsions,
but through education
and making him feel that
he is regarded as a
human being possessing
all the rights that are ac-
corded to men.
"But above all, every
right-minded American to
whom the fundamentals of
the Republic are dear and
who wishes to maintain the
spirit of freedom that is the
cornerstone of the fabric of
the United States, must
protest with might and
main against the persecu-
tion to which the Negro is
subjected.
The life of the meanest
among men must be held
sacred beneath the Stars
and Stripes. The Negro has
given evidence of self-uplift
and of being capable of good
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citizenship. Let nothing be
done that will drag him
down to the level of the
brute. Extend to him the
hand of brotherhood, for all
men are created free and
equal. It is man's inhuman-
ity against man which
creates inequalities.
"The dignified and ear-
nest protest of the
thousands of Negroes
should strike home and
cause every American to re-
gard his fellow citizen of the
black race with fairness and
justice. Let there be an end
to wrongdoing lest we stand
accused before the Bar of
Justice as a people un-
worthy of freedom."
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