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E B William Dubois — Part 4

110 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Mar 31, 1953 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: E B William Dubois · 108 pages OCR'd
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Toe suena /4/7 ond, essentially, constitute « part of capitelist ergenisations, Since the 05 Goverment established its contro] over the jasue of peasports for travelling abroad, this control has been used for preventing those Negroes from trevellidag ebroed who eriticise the recialist system in the USA, hus, for exauple, Paul Bebeson wee q- Maprived of his passport for seven yeavs. I also vas refused » paggpert, elthough Wegroes who favoursbly described amerios or kept silent eboct the soekel #itustion _ Sm the DSA could get passports, is time went on, however, big business boceme aware of the Giecreponsy between declarations of desire for trede and friendship with Asian amt African sountries and discriminstion agsinst the aoloured population st home, This led to the attempts to introduce reforms in the system of public primary achools, Independent schools for Negroes, which achieved certain successes thanks to the efforts of the Negroes themselves and to the sid of White philenthropists were formed, But es general education embraced ever wider strate of Wegroes end os charity worsened, the position of the Negro schools became worse, The States were unable to support the parallel system of schools for Whites and Negroes, Phe only sclution was to create a single school system embracing ell races, Such an interpretation of the Constitution was supported by the Supreme Court, However, the majority of former slave-cming Southern States opposed this. Their ettitude has led to such incidents #5 in Little Rock, This problem has still to be solved if one is to #liminate the last vestiges of slavery, at least in education, It represents only # part of more serious problems, which are not only of s rocial ¢chcrracter, The matter concerns, first of a11, the problems of labour and wages, ‘The US Wegroes need socialism, They need something similar to what is possessed by the national minorities in the Soviet Union: the opportunity to develop their own notional cuiture, preserving their historic traditions, and to develop their ert anf culture, Only in this way will it be possible to preserve the originality of their masic and dances and the rest of this cultural heritage. Furthermore, the Nefroes should have employment according to their abilities and receive Woxes socording to their needs, This is the aim of comiunisn, but the Negrocs do not know about it, The leaders of the Negro people make 4 serious mistake ond often force them to support the “witeh-hunting" campaigns directed ogoinst commmisn, If the American Negroes and ell other Americans of #11 colours of skin could take into consideration everything that is today happening in the world, if they could study the history of Russic end Chins, if they could soqueint themselves with the teaching of Marx and Lenin, they would support socialism, However, at present the US primary schools do not teach this, The US colleges pay littie attention to these subjects, Socialism is presented as 3 failure, oni communism as a crime, This, however, cannot last for ever, Despite various obstacles, the number of literate Negroes is incresting, Thanks to the aid rendered by their White friends, the effectiveness of Negro organisations is growing. One doy the Negroes will attain complete liberation not only from slave lsbour, but also from wage slavery end from ractal hotred, The Negroes hove already made their contribution to history, They helped the USA in the liberotion from the yoke of-the British Empire, Five million Yerroes fought for the sbolition of slavery In the USA, end Abraham Lincoln emphasised that without their ai¢ the North would havc been unable te achieve victory 4n the Civil War in 1861-1864, American literature has been created mainly by Mogroee, either by Negro writers ef Negro heroes in literary works, Art is to a great extent of Negro origin. American science is trredeemably indebted to Benjamin (Domicker}, (tJohn Mestelicer) and Ernst Just, Hod Negro children been able in the past 25 years to heve the same education as Sovict children, #1] humon values would have been preserved, ~———
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