Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1963-09-28
J. A. Beauchamp

Bomb Tosser Faces Death By Hanging
Richard Mapolisa, an African
cinvicted throwing a Molotov cocktail, faced death Saturday at
the first victim of the so-called "hanging act."
The act makes the death sentence mandatory for any person
convicted of throwing bombs or committing arson.

20,000 HEAR DR. J.H. JACKSON IN HISTORIC ADDRESS ON CIVIL RIGHTS IN
PUBLIC AUDITORIUM, CLEVELAND, OHIO, ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1963
It was known that Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist
Convention, U.S.A., Inc., would deliver his annual address at 11:00 a.m. There
was the usual keen interest and anticipation of what would be said. At 10:00
a.m. streets leading to the auditorium were jammed, traffic tied up for blocks,
as thousands hurried to set seats. They were rushing to hear one of the great
religious statesmen of our time, a man who
speaks with courage and conviction. Not only
his friends, but his enemies, regard him at a
leader with rare gifts and ability. He has
combined profound thought with deep love of
his race and his nation with a vital faith in
God. Those who fear his power of persuasion
seek to hinder his speech. This, in a large
measure explains why he was not allowed to
address the national convention for The Advancement 
of Colored People July 4th in
Chicago, Illinois.
No true American citizen, militant or
moderate, will disagree with the basic position 
of Dr. J. H. Jackson on the fundamentals
of civil rights when his position is really
known. It is his position that whatever it done
in the struggle for civil rights should always
be regulated by three standards:
1. The letter and spirit of the Federal 
Constitution.
2. The American philosophy of freedom. 

3. The Judeo - Christian view of hymen life and human relationship.
Dr. Jackson is a militant Christian who believes in a Christian militancy as an
approach to civil rights and all other problems of human relations both national
and international.
Because we desire the public to know something of Dr. Jackson's real
position, and because some of us who know the truth have joined together
for the purpose of correcting the false images created by giving to the public
the facts the case.
Our first effort is to give some excerpts from the great address delivered
in Cleveland, Ohio with some comments. The address may be divided roughly
into three sections, namely: (1.) The Work of Segregators. (2.) The Struggle of
the American Negro the Segregated. (3). The Task of the Nation.
Here the speaker sets forth with clarity, the position that has been taken
by those who believe in segregation. Said he:
These have skillfully manipulated the Federal Constitution for the past
one hundred years in order to defend their dogma of segregation end
to justify their sins of discrimination ... They have bolted and barred
the doors of many institutions of learning and have denied others access 
to the ballot box. In the name of democracy they have stolen the
liberty from others and hove forced one-tenth of the nation's population 
into a jim-crow class at second-rate citizens, and have blamed
them for their weaknesses, laughed at their shortcomings, and cursed
them when they failed. The oppressors have often taken the laws into
their own hands and have slaughtered others without repentance, and
some have taken public offices as governors of states, senators and
congressmen of the United States, and with uplifted hands have sworn
to defend the nation against enemies foreign and domestic, and to
uphold the principles of the Federal Constitution, but then they have
defied many of the verdicts of the Supreme Court and have lived in
contempt of the same.
Against these oppressors the lovers of freedom have fought, and are
still fighting a heroic battle and will continue this fight until the enemies
of freedom are subdued and all Americans are free.
In dealing with the struggle of the American Negro, the speaker pointed
out the facts of the Negro's patriotism.
In our feeble way we have striven to help the nation grow and to come to new
heights of power. With horny hands we have felled the trees, cleared the forest,
tilled the soil, and have had a share in the cultural pattern of American life. With
the nation we have suffered, and as soldiers our sons and daughters have gladly
died, and their sacred remains rest in the earthly bosom of many nations scattered 
around the world, and some have perished on mad oceans, and their invisible
particles have found their place in the watery niches of the Seven Sects'... We
still appreciate our flag and pledge our allegiance to this Republic, and are
dedicated to the highest ideals for which it stands ... We regret however, that
there remain many shameful spots on the nation's life and character. We must
confess that there are many promises unfulfilled, and the nation is still partly
free and partly bound with chains. As a race our rights are still restricted, and
the slaves have been emancipated only in part; and for one hundred years, the
ghost of the past still haunts us and the demon of injustice brandishes his sword,
and many unjust judges still occupy, the sacred bench. We have exechanged the
chains of slavery for the cursed ropes of segregation, and the weights of servitude 
for the Burdens of discrimination. After one hundred years, legally and
morally, the nation it in many respects Where it was in 1863. The Republic is
still divided between north and south. The great rebellion still goes on, and the
Civil War has not been completely closed. The cry for deliverance is heard in
every hamlet, village, and town in the United States of America . . .
This struggle has expressed itself in many and varied forms, but historically it
has never been a struggle of violence. The voice of this oppressed minority has
been the voice of request, of reason, persuasion, and pressure by protest...
These protest pressures have expressed themselves in the form of boycotts, acts
of civil disobedience, economic reprisals, and mass parades. The purposes of
these pressures are clear.
1. To secure immediate deliverance from the perils, penalties, and
shame of segregation.
2. To gain first-class citizenship in every aspect of American life.
3. To shook the conscience of America and goad the majority into
action against injustice.
4. To expose these tint within the United States to the world in order
that the whole nation might repent in shame and change her ways,
and enforce her laws, and respect all men, and grant to all citizens
first-class rights, first-class opportunities, and first-class responsibilities. 

However, we must admit there are some daggers in pressure by protect.
1. Since it is designed to change the minds of others for the better, if it
does not accomplish this end immediately, we may tend to become discouraged
and bitter.
2. Our limited economic resources will handicap us as a minority if this
type of battle is long and intensive.
3. If pressure by protest should remove all barriers and win for the American 
Negro all victories against their oppressors, they still must face the long and
arduous task of building their economic fortunes, getting better training in the
professional and scientific fields, and acquiring the type of preparation that is
most essential in this age of automation and under the spell of atomic science.
Here members of the Negro community seek to solve some of the problems they
face by producing some of the things they desire, and thus making them available 
not only for their own race, but for the community both colored and white.
They are led to organize capital, build stores, and produce those things that are
needed and acceptable and appreciated by first-class American citizens. Pressure
by production has some disadvantages:
1. It requires more time for victory than pressure by protest.
2. It does not satisfy at once the impatient spirit of the oppressed, and at
times it seems to move too slowly.
3. It is not as popular and is less glamorous than pressure by protest.
But there are some distinct advantages in pressure by production.
1. It need not wholly negate pressure by protest; that is, while we
build for ourselves and become a competitor with others, we may also
make known the acts of injustice and the sins of discrimination.
2. Pressure by production is designed to improve the lot both of the
oppressed and of the whole community. If the white community does not
accept or respond to pressure by production, the Negro community would
still be successful in lifting its own economical and cultural standard, thereby 
blessing themselves and the community in which they live.
3. If the desire is that we will not trade where we ore discriminated
against, production gives us a place to trade while we await a change in
policy in stores that discriminate and segregate. The truth is, one can wait
longer before going to such a store when one has access to a store where
none of these negatives are encountered or practiced. It is not enough to
give the order that we will not buy groceries and clothing where we are
discriminated against, we must provide a place where groceries, clothing
and shoes may be purchased, and such stores should be built by cooperative
effort so that they will attract the best people among all citizens of the
United States, and the service should be high class, the goods of the highest
caliber.
It is not too much to ask that on the level of production we build some of the
finest restaurants and cafes by cooperative effort, for any restaurant that is
clean and first-class, with food well-seasoned, well-seasoned, and well-cooked, will
attract hungry people in spite pf the color of their skin. Pressure by production
will not allow us to be satisfied just to eat in a nother's restaurant or to be employed, 
in a store owned by other people. Here we labor to change the relationship 
from customer to owner, to that of owner to owner; that is to say, in pressure 
by protest, we leave the store in the hands of our white friends and seek
only the chance and the right to spend our money there, in protest by production
we purchase a store and become a store owner as bur whit? friends, and welcome 
all races and peoples to become our customers. It is not economically sound
to invest our money, in such a way that we weaken ourselves as an economic
group and make economically stronger a segregating and discriminating group.
The day must come when in the field if business Negroes must compete with
their white neighbors as they now compete in sports, in the arts, and in the professions. 

In the scientific field we need not wait until another discovers the formula and
creates the potent and acquires the copyright. The book of knowledge is open,
the highway of wisdom is available, the temple of creativity is not locked; let
us go in, and with the raw materials available, increase the numbers of those
Who are the producers of new commodities and the creators of new implements;
for it is now a matter of record that where the science of medicine is known,
and the art of healing is possessed, men of all colors and classes will knock at
the door and seek admittance to the physicians' office if his skin is as black
as a thousand midnights. Learn well your song, and drink deeply from the
Pierian springs of inspiring music, and the world will bow at your feet and will
delight to sing of your greatness as it has already done for Roland Hayes of
yesteryears, and of Marion Anderson of a more recent date. To young Negroes
I say, let not the opportunity slip. Remember the possibilities of creativity in the
days of thy youth. Spend well the hours of research, study, and thought while
the years of maturity are not yet and the days of rush, conflict, and contest are
not upon you. Fix our eyes now upon the highest mental, moral, and spiritual
star, and go forward and upward by the sparkling light of the same. Open the
sails of your human potentials to the winds of fate and set them for soiling towards 
life's highest and most lofty goals, and make sure of possessing inner
motor power and fuel that will guarantee the continuity of the voyage though
the waves of discrimination be high, and the madcaps of prejudice are breaking
fast, and howling storms beat and tug at your ship with dreadful ferocious, and
merciless power. It is good to fall heir to accumulated wealth and to contend for
and get one's share in the legacies of the past, but it is much better to be armed
with the genius to invent, the ingenuity to produce, and the eternal spirit to
create; for in this context, a Thomas Edison finds an abiding light if the sun
goes down, and a Henry Ford releases the horseless chariots in the streets, and
a gifted Alexander Bell bridges the chasms of distance and puts all comers in
speaking range of their neighbors.
While we shall do all within our power to overcome every obstacle, remove
every hindering stone, and to come to the full stature of first-class citizenship
in this country, we will not forget however, to work with our many allies that are
now at hand in this great undertaking. Our allies are all American citizens-who
are dedicated to democracy, also the Federal Constitution, the courts of the
land, and every agency of government working for the full realization of the
American dream. The nation herself then has a task in this matter of completing
what has been so nobly begun ...
America must not ask the searchers for freedom to delay their efforts and to
dismiss the quest, for they could not stop if they tried. And the desire to achieve
freedom could not be dismissed if the notion willed it. This desire is as natural
as hunger, thirst, rest, and repose after the labors of the day.
We cannot shrink from our quest for freedom to ease the labors and the duties
of the state. The notion knows well that there can be no compromise at this point
between the citizens and the state. Tell all America freedom is a gift from God,
and its seeds are planted deeply in the souls of men by the Divine Hand, and
no human agency can pluck them out, no flood can wash them away, and no
power con destroy them. The decrees of masters cannot enthrall freedom. The
threats of demagogues will never change it. Biting dogs cannot gnaw it away.
Mobs will never lynch it. Swords cannot separate freedom from the delicate

tissues of the human soul. Charging guns have not eliminated freedom, and
high-powered rifles cannot snuff it out. America, America; prison cells cannot
contain freedom, dungeons will never destroy its fires have not consumed it. If will
never slumber in the graves of honored heroes, and hell with all of its power
will never put an end to it; for even if Crushed to the earth, freedom will in the
course of time rise again, for it is immortal in its nature, divine in its origin, and
eternal in its purpose.
The United States must not and cannot stand idly by and leave this contest in the
hands of the segregators and the segregated, and await the outcome of this
crucial battle between the oppressors and the oppressed. It is the nation's responsibility 
to assure and guarantee freedom to all of its citizens. Too long has
the nation delayed, too long has she postponed direct and immediate action, too
long has she left the struggle in the hands of others, and all too long has she
relegated the task of the achievement of civil rights to a secondary place in her
life and action. The nation must act and act now. If she doesn't act, the present
conflict will breed more confusion, and the present battle will end in a tragic
defeat for the nation. If America does not solve the problem of civil rights constructively, 
she will lose her moral leadership of the free world, and will deny
her own assumption of justice and liberty. The suffering of one part of the notion
reflects itself in the affliction and penalty of the whole.
If one-tenth of the nation's population must be kept in chains, then the other
nine-tenths must live and rear their children in the sight of, and in the fear of
encroaching poverty, and if part of a democracy must be afflicted by the pangs
of segregation and discrimination, then all must live near the dreadful camp of
ignorance and spend their days suffering from the same diseases with which
the port is inflicted. If the rich rob the poor, they must be taxed to guarantee
relief for their needy victims. Remember, the jailer himself is in a sense a prisoner
with his prisoners, and the hangman who springs the trap, himself dies a
thousand deaths...
There are too many isms seeking to invade our country and too many potential
enemies within for the government to take lightly the task of making first-class
citizens out of ail of her people .....
We must tell our congressmen, the governors of our several states, that the civil
rights struggle is not a racial struggle alone. It is the struggle for the very life
of the nation.
Tell Congress when a civil rights bill is before the United States Congress or any
similar bill that has to do with the nation's character and life, it should receive
priority because of what it means to the future of this great Republic.
Tell Congress there will be little use to concentrate on secondaries if the primary
things of the nation dire overlooked and lost. It is not wise for groups, nationalities, 
and races to strive for that which is peculiar to them when the nation's life
is at stake.
Tell the nation north and south it is a most serious blunder for Americans to
talk about the purity of race and the preservation of the Caucasian tradition
when the whole nation is threatened from within.
Tell Congress when the ship at sea is on fire and the bucket brigade is
necessary to extinguish the flames, any passenger is ill-informed or wrongly
directed if said passenger Seeks to protect his stateroom and to exclude himself 
from the joint struggle of passenger and crew to save the endangered
ship. All must work together to save the ship or all aboard, including the
captain, his crew, and passengers will go down together to a common
arave beneath a foaming sea.
Tell the United States Congress, tell the north, and tell the south that after
a hundred years the nation's life is in danger and the ship of state is on
fire. The chief executive, the Congress of the United States, and all Citizens
black and white must join the bucket brigade to put out the fires of prejudice, 
hatred, and inequality, or else all shall perish in the crucial defeat
of the nation ....
The liberty of no people con rest on the broken lives of others, and the
eternal security of a nation cannot be built on the bending bocks of slaves
or the broken bodies of the oppressed and the bleached bones of the
slaughtered. In the interest of herself, and for the preservation of her own
soul, our nation must solve the problem of civil rights and give to each
American citizen the portion of goods that rightfully belongs to him.
Our nation cannot forsake her highest ideals, nor forget her most lofty
dreams and pluck up the foundation stones of freedom and truth on which
our fathers builded. America must not suffer her sacred documents, promising 
human dignity and freedom, to be burned in a furnace of envy
and hate. She will not fail herself or mankind. She has travelled too far
on the road of democracy and freedom to ever turn back to the slime and
scum of human servitude and any form of chattel slavery ...
1. Many who heard it said it was one of the greatest addresses delivered
on civil rights since the days of Frederick Douglass.
2. "It was a great plea for the freedom movement within the framework
of the Federal Constitution and the American philosophy of freedom."
3. Some said, "This was more than an address, it was a directive and a
charter for action in the present and future struggle for civil rights."
4. Many said, "This is the voice of a Christian statesman who has faith in
himself, in his race, his notion, and his God."
5. "Seldom have I ever seen a vast audience so moved and insured."
When the speaker recounted his experience in crossing a picket line to
reach his pulpit to preach, a strange silence gripped the audience and many
wept. When he exhorted all ministers to be prepared for such an experience,
and whenever they face such, a picket line, they must cross it and walk heavily
as they cross, the vast audience took on, an atmosphere of action abd participation, 
and one aged minister was seen to stand and walk bock and
forth as if he
were crossing a picket line. The Governor of the State of Ohio sat in rapt attention 
throughout the whole, address and was visibly moved. At the close of the
address he was one of the first on his feet among thousands of others, He was
heard to say this was one of the greatest addresses to which he had ever listened.
In Dr. J. H. Jackson not only do five million National Baptist have a
great champion, but the Negro race and American democracy have a trusted
spokesman. He never separates the struggle of the Negro race from the American 
struggle. And if there are those who have attached themselves to the civil
rights movement with ulterior motives and for the purpose of using the struggle
to wage a secret bottle against the nation and against religion, said persons
must always regard patriotic Americans, be they colored or white, as their
serious opponents. Dr. J. H. Jackson believes that his race hot the ability to
achieve all of its high goals by working in harmony with the Federal Constitution 
and in the American way of life. His unquestioned patriotism renders him
a serious opponent to the enemies of the nation foreign and domestic, and his
unifying faith in God renders him an unrelenting champion of the Christian
religion.
The Unanimous voice of five thousand official delegates in the adoption of
all measures presented, along with the unanimous reelection of the president for
another term, was a testimony of the faith of the people in his leadership, and
undisputed evidence that Dr. J. H. Jackson it not alone in advocating a Christian
militancy in the present crises.

I. The Labors Of The Oppressors
It was known that Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist
Convention, U.S.A., Inc., would deliver his annual address at 11:00 a.m. There
was the usual keen interest and anticipation of what would be said. At 10:00
a.m. streets leading to the auditorium were jammed, traffic tied up for blocks,
as thousands hurried to set seats. They were rushing to hear one of the great
religious statesmen of our time, a man who
speaks with courage and conviction. Not only
his friends, but his enemies, regard him at a
leader with rare gifts and ability. He has
combined profound thought with deep love of
his race and his nation with a vital faith in
God. Those who fear his power of persuasion
seek to hinder his speech. This, in a large
measure explains why he was not allowed to
address the national convention for The Advancement 
of Colored People July 4th in
Chicago, Illinois.
No true American citizen, militant or
moderate, will disagree with the basic position 
of Dr. J. H. Jackson on the fundamentals
of civil rights when his position is really
known. It is his position that whatever it done
in the struggle for civil rights should always
be regulated by three standards:
1. The letter and spirit of the Federal 
Constitution.
2. The American philosophy of freedom. 

3. The Judeo - Christian view of hymen life and human relationship.
Dr. Jackson is a militant Christian who believes in a Christian militancy as an
approach to civil rights and all other problems of human relations both national
and international.
Because we desire the public to know something of Dr. Jackson's real
position, and because some of us who know the truth have joined together
for the purpose of correcting the false images created by giving to the public
the facts the case.
Our first effort is to give some excerpts from the great address delivered
in Cleveland, Ohio with some comments. The address may be divided roughly
into three sections, namely: (1.) The Work of Segregators. (2.) The Struggle of
the American Negro the Segregated. (3). The Task of the Nation.
Here the speaker sets forth with clarity, the position that has been taken
by those who believe in segregation. Said he:
These have skillfully manipulated the Federal Constitution for the past
one hundred years in order to defend their dogma of segregation end
to justify their sins of discrimination ... They have bolted and barred
the doors of many institutions of learning and have denied others access 
to the ballot box. In the name of democracy they have stolen the
liberty from others and hove forced one-tenth of the nation's population 
into a jim-crow class at second-rate citizens, and have blamed
them for their weaknesses, laughed at their shortcomings, and cursed
them when they failed. The oppressors have often taken the laws into
their own hands and have slaughtered others without repentance, and
some have taken public offices as governors of states, senators and
congressmen of the United States, and with uplifted hands have sworn
to defend the nation against enemies foreign and domestic, and to
uphold the principles of the Federal Constitution, but then they have
defied many of the verdicts of the Supreme Court and have lived in
contempt of the same.
Against these oppressors the lovers of freedom have fought, and are
still fighting a heroic battle and will continue this fight until the enemies
of freedom are subdued and all Americans are free.
In dealing with the struggle of the American Negro, the speaker pointed
out the facts of the Negro's patriotism.
In our feeble way we have striven to help the nation grow and to come to new
heights of power. With horny hands we have felled the trees, cleared the forest,
tilled the soil, and have had a share in the cultural pattern of American life. With
the nation we have suffered, and as soldiers our sons and daughters have gladly
died, and their sacred remains rest in the earthly bosom of many nations scattered 
around the world, and some have perished on mad oceans, and their invisible
particles have found their place in the watery niches of the Seven Sects'... We
still appreciate our flag and pledge our allegiance to this Republic, and are
dedicated to the highest ideals for which it stands ... We regret however, that
there remain many shameful spots on the nation's life and character. We must
confess that there are many promises unfulfilled, and the nation is still partly
free and partly bound with chains. As a race our rights are still restricted, and
the slaves have been emancipated only in part; and for one hundred years, the
ghost of the past still haunts us and the demon of injustice brandishes his sword,
and many unjust judges still occupy, the sacred bench. We have exechanged the
chains of slavery for the cursed ropes of segregation, and the weights of servitude 
for the Burdens of discrimination. After one hundred years, legally and
morally, the nation it in many respects Where it was in 1863. The Republic is
still divided between north and south. The great rebellion still goes on, and the
Civil War has not been completely closed. The cry for deliverance is heard in
every hamlet, village, and town in the United States of America . . .
This struggle has expressed itself in many and varied forms, but historically it
has never been a struggle of violence. The voice of this oppressed minority has
been the voice of request, of reason, persuasion, and pressure by protest...
These protest pressures have expressed themselves in the form of boycotts, acts
of civil disobedience, economic reprisals, and mass parades. The purposes of
these pressures are clear.
1. To secure immediate deliverance from the perils, penalties, and
shame of segregation.
2. To gain first-class citizenship in every aspect of American life.
3. To shook the conscience of America and goad the majority into
action against injustice.
4. To expose these tint within the United States to the world in order
that the whole nation might repent in shame and change her ways,
and enforce her laws, and respect all men, and grant to all citizens
first-class rights, first-class opportunities, and first-class responsibilities. 

However, we must admit there are some daggers in pressure by protect.
1. Since it is designed to change the minds of others for the better, if it
does not accomplish this end immediately, we may tend to become discouraged
and bitter.
2. Our limited economic resources will handicap us as a minority if this
type of battle is long and intensive.
3. If pressure by protest should remove all barriers and win for the American 
Negro all victories against their oppressors, they still must face the long and
arduous task of building their economic fortunes, getting better training in the
professional and scientific fields, and acquiring the type of preparation that is
most essential in this age of automation and under the spell of atomic science.
Here members of the Negro community seek to solve some of the problems they
face by producing some of the things they desire, and thus making them available 
not only for their own race, but for the community both colored and white.
They are led to organize capital, build stores, and produce those things that are
needed and acceptable and appreciated by first-class American citizens. Pressure
by production has some disadvantages:
1. It requires more time for victory than pressure by protest.
2. It does not satisfy at once the impatient spirit of the oppressed, and at
times it seems to move too slowly.
3. It is not as popular and is less glamorous than pressure by protest.
But there are some distinct advantages in pressure by production.
1. It need not wholly negate pressure by protest; that is, while we
build for ourselves and become a competitor with others, we may also
make known the acts of injustice and the sins of discrimination.
2. Pressure by production is designed to improve the lot both of the
oppressed and of the whole community. If the white community does not
accept or respond to pressure by production, the Negro community would
still be successful in lifting its own economical and cultural standard, thereby 
blessing themselves and the community in which they live.
3. If the desire is that we will not trade where we ore discriminated
against, production gives us a place to trade while we await a change in
policy in stores that discriminate and segregate. The truth is, one can wait
longer before going to such a store when one has access to a store where
none of these negatives are encountered or practiced. It is not enough to
give the order that we will not buy groceries and clothing where we are
discriminated against, we must provide a place where groceries, clothing
and shoes may be purchased, and such stores should be built by cooperative
effort so that they will attract the best people among all citizens of the
United States, and the service should be high class, the goods of the highest
caliber.
It is not too much to ask that on the level of production we build some of the
finest restaurants and cafes by cooperative effort, for any restaurant that is
clean and first-class, with food well-seasoned, well-seasoned, and well-cooked, will
attract hungry people in spite pf the color of their skin. Pressure by production
will not allow us to be satisfied just to eat in a nother's restaurant or to be employed, 
in a store owned by other people. Here we labor to change the relationship 
from customer to owner, to that of owner to owner; that is to say, in pressure 
by protest, we leave the store in the hands of our white friends and seek
only the chance and the right to spend our money there, in protest by production
we purchase a store and become a store owner as bur whit? friends, and welcome 
all races and peoples to become our customers. It is not economically sound
to invest our money, in such a way that we weaken ourselves as an economic
group and make economically stronger a segregating and discriminating group.
The day must come when in the field if business Negroes must compete with
their white neighbors as they now compete in sports, in the arts, and in the professions. 

In the scientific field we need not wait until another discovers the formula and
creates the potent and acquires the copyright. The book of knowledge is open,
the highway of wisdom is available, the temple of creativity is not locked; let
us go in, and with the raw materials available, increase the numbers of those
Who are the producers of new commodities and the creators of new implements;
for it is now a matter of record that where the science of medicine is known,
and the art of healing is possessed, men of all colors and classes will knock at
the door and seek admittance to the physicians' office if his skin is as black
as a thousand midnights. Learn well your song, and drink deeply from the
Pierian springs of inspiring music, and the world will bow at your feet and will
delight to sing of your greatness as it has already done for Roland Hayes of
yesteryears, and of Marion Anderson of a more recent date. To young Negroes
I say, let not the opportunity slip. Remember the possibilities of creativity in the
days of thy youth. Spend well the hours of research, study, and thought while
the years of maturity are not yet and the days of rush, conflict, and contest are
not upon you. Fix our eyes now upon the highest mental, moral, and spiritual
star, and go forward and upward by the sparkling light of the same. Open the
sails of your human potentials to the winds of fate and set them for soiling towards 
life's highest and most lofty goals, and make sure of possessing inner
motor power and fuel that will guarantee the continuity of the voyage though
the waves of discrimination be high, and the madcaps of prejudice are breaking
fast, and howling storms beat and tug at your ship with dreadful ferocious, and
merciless power. It is good to fall heir to accumulated wealth and to contend for
and get one's share in the legacies of the past, but it is much better to be armed
with the genius to invent, the ingenuity to produce, and the eternal spirit to
create; for in this context, a Thomas Edison finds an abiding light if the sun
goes down, and a Henry Ford releases the horseless chariots in the streets, and
a gifted Alexander Bell bridges the chasms of distance and puts all comers in
speaking range of their neighbors.
While we shall do all within our power to overcome every obstacle, remove
every hindering stone, and to come to the full stature of first-class citizenship
in this country, we will not forget however, to work with our many allies that are
now at hand in this great undertaking. Our allies are all American citizens-who
are dedicated to democracy, also the Federal Constitution, the courts of the
land, and every agency of government working for the full realization of the
American dream. The nation herself then has a task in this matter of completing
what has been so nobly begun ...
America must not ask the searchers for freedom to delay their efforts and to
dismiss the quest, for they could not stop if they tried. And the desire to achieve
freedom could not be dismissed if the notion willed it. This desire is as natural
as hunger, thirst, rest, and repose after the labors of the day.
We cannot shrink from our quest for freedom to ease the labors and the duties
of the state. The notion knows well that there can be no compromise at this point
between the citizens and the state. Tell all America freedom is a gift from God,
and its seeds are planted deeply in the souls of men by the Divine Hand, and
no human agency can pluck them out, no flood can wash them away, and no
power con destroy them. The decrees of masters cannot enthrall freedom. The
threats of demagogues will never change it. Biting dogs cannot gnaw it away.
Mobs will never lynch it. Swords cannot separate freedom from the delicate

tissues of the human soul. Charging guns have not eliminated freedom, and
high-powered rifles cannot snuff it out. America, America; prison cells cannot
contain freedom, dungeons will never destroy its fires have not consumed it. If will
never slumber in the graves of honored heroes, and hell with all of its power
will never put an end to it; for even if Crushed to the earth, freedom will in the
course of time rise again, for it is immortal in its nature, divine in its origin, and
eternal in its purpose.
The United States must not and cannot stand idly by and leave this contest in the
hands of the segregators and the segregated, and await the outcome of this
crucial battle between the oppressors and the oppressed. It is the nation's responsibility 
to assure and guarantee freedom to all of its citizens. Too long has
the nation delayed, too long has she postponed direct and immediate action, too
long has she left the struggle in the hands of others, and all too long has she
relegated the task of the achievement of civil rights to a secondary place in her
life and action. The nation must act and act now. If she doesn't act, the present
conflict will breed more confusion, and the present battle will end in a tragic
defeat for the nation. If America does not solve the problem of civil rights constructively, 
she will lose her moral leadership of the free world, and will deny
her own assumption of justice and liberty. The suffering of one part of the notion
reflects itself in the affliction and penalty of the whole.
If one-tenth of the nation's population must be kept in chains, then the other
nine-tenths must live and rear their children in the sight of, and in the fear of
encroaching poverty, and if part of a democracy must be afflicted by the pangs
of segregation and discrimination, then all must live near the dreadful camp of
ignorance and spend their days suffering from the same diseases with which
the port is inflicted. If the rich rob the poor, they must be taxed to guarantee
relief for their needy victims. Remember, the jailer himself is in a sense a prisoner
with his prisoners, and the hangman who springs the trap, himself dies a
thousand deaths...
There are too many isms seeking to invade our country and too many potential
enemies within for the government to take lightly the task of making first-class
citizens out of ail of her people .....
We must tell our congressmen, the governors of our several states, that the civil
rights struggle is not a racial struggle alone. It is the struggle for the very life
of the nation.
Tell Congress when a civil rights bill is before the United States Congress or any
similar bill that has to do with the nation's character and life, it should receive
priority because of what it means to the future of this great Republic.
Tell Congress there will be little use to concentrate on secondaries if the primary
things of the nation dire overlooked and lost. It is not wise for groups, nationalities, 
and races to strive for that which is peculiar to them when the nation's life
is at stake.
Tell the nation north and south it is a most serious blunder for Americans to
talk about the purity of race and the preservation of the Caucasian tradition
when the whole nation is threatened from within.
Tell Congress when the ship at sea is on fire and the bucket brigade is
necessary to extinguish the flames, any passenger is ill-informed or wrongly
directed if said passenger Seeks to protect his stateroom and to exclude himself 
from the joint struggle of passenger and crew to save the endangered
ship. All must work together to save the ship or all aboard, including the
captain, his crew, and passengers will go down together to a common
arave beneath a foaming sea.
Tell the United States Congress, tell the north, and tell the south that after
a hundred years the nation's life is in danger and the ship of state is on
fire. The chief executive, the Congress of the United States, and all Citizens
black and white must join the bucket brigade to put out the fires of prejudice, 
hatred, and inequality, or else all shall perish in the crucial defeat
of the nation ....
The liberty of no people con rest on the broken lives of others, and the
eternal security of a nation cannot be built on the bending bocks of slaves
or the broken bodies of the oppressed and the bleached bones of the
slaughtered. In the interest of herself, and for the preservation of her own
soul, our nation must solve the problem of civil rights and give to each
American citizen the portion of goods that rightfully belongs to him.
Our nation cannot forsake her highest ideals, nor forget her most lofty
dreams and pluck up the foundation stones of freedom and truth on which
our fathers builded. America must not suffer her sacred documents, promising 
human dignity and freedom, to be burned in a furnace of envy
and hate. She will not fail herself or mankind. She has travelled too far
on the road of democracy and freedom to ever turn back to the slime and
scum of human servitude and any form of chattel slavery ...
1. Many who heard it said it was one of the greatest addresses delivered
on civil rights since the days of Frederick Douglass.
2. "It was a great plea for the freedom movement within the framework
of the Federal Constitution and the American philosophy of freedom."
3. Some said, "This was more than an address, it was a directive and a
charter for action in the present and future struggle for civil rights."
4. Many said, "This is the voice of a Christian statesman who has faith in
himself, in his race, his notion, and his God."
5. "Seldom have I ever seen a vast audience so moved and insured."
When the speaker recounted his experience in crossing a picket line to
reach his pulpit to preach, a strange silence gripped the audience and many
wept. When he exhorted all ministers to be prepared for such an experience,
and whenever they face such, a picket line, they must cross it and walk heavily
as they cross, the vast audience took on, an atmosphere of action abd participation, 
and one aged minister was seen to stand and walk bock and
forth as if he
were crossing a picket line. The Governor of the State of Ohio sat in rapt attention 
throughout the whole, address and was visibly moved. At the close of the
address he was one of the first on his feet among thousands of others, He was
heard to say this was one of the greatest addresses to which he had ever listened.
In Dr. J. H. Jackson not only do five million National Baptist have a
great champion, but the Negro race and American democracy have a trusted
spokesman. He never separates the struggle of the Negro race from the American 
struggle. And if there are those who have attached themselves to the civil
rights movement with ulterior motives and for the purpose of using the struggle
to wage a secret bottle against the nation and against religion, said persons
must always regard patriotic Americans, be they colored or white, as their
serious opponents. Dr. J. H. Jackson believes that his race hot the ability to
achieve all of its high goals by working in harmony with the Federal Constitution 
and in the American way of life. His unquestioned patriotism renders him
a serious opponent to the enemies of the nation foreign and domestic, and his
unifying faith in God renders him an unrelenting champion of the Christian
religion.
The Unanimous voice of five thousand official delegates in the adoption of
all measures presented, along with the unanimous reelection of the president for
another term, was a testimony of the faith of the people in his leadership, and
undisputed evidence that Dr. J. H. Jackson it not alone in advocating a Christian
militancy in the present crises.

II. The Struggle Of The American Negro
A. The Negro's Patriotism
It was known that Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist
Convention, U.S.A., Inc., would deliver his annual address at 11:00 a.m. There
was the usual keen interest and anticipation of what would be said. At 10:00
a.m. streets leading to the auditorium were jammed, traffic tied up for blocks,
as thousands hurried to set seats. They were rushing to hear one of the great
religious statesmen of our time, a man who
speaks with courage and conviction. Not only
his friends, but his enemies, regard him at a
leader with rare gifts and ability. He has
combined profound thought with deep love of
his race and his nation with a vital faith in
God. Those who fear his power of persuasion
seek to hinder his speech. This, in a large
measure explains why he was not allowed to
address the national convention for The Advancement 
of Colored People July 4th in
Chicago, Illinois.
No true American citizen, militant or
moderate, will disagree with the basic position 
of Dr. J. H. Jackson on the fundamentals
of civil rights when his position is really
known. It is his position that whatever it done
in the struggle for civil rights should always
be regulated by three standards:
1. The letter and spirit of the Federal 
Constitution.
2. The American philosophy of freedom. 

3. The Judeo - Christian view of hymen life and human relationship.
Dr. Jackson is a militant Christian who believes in a Christian militancy as an
approach to civil rights and all other problems of human relations both national
and international.
Because we desire the public to know something of Dr. Jackson's real
position, and because some of us who know the truth have joined together
for the purpose of correcting the false images created by giving to the public
the facts the case.
Our first effort is to give some excerpts from the great address delivered
in Cleveland, Ohio with some comments. The address may be divided roughly
into three sections, namely: (1.) The Work of Segregators. (2.) The Struggle of
the American Negro the Segregated. (3). The Task of the Nation.
Here the speaker sets forth with clarity, the position that has been taken
by those who believe in segregation. Said he:
These have skillfully manipulated the Federal Constitution for the past
one hundred years in order to defend their dogma of segregation end
to justify their sins of discrimination ... They have bolted and barred
the doors of many institutions of learning and have denied others access 
to the ballot box. In the name of democracy they have stolen the
liberty from others and hove forced one-tenth of the nation's population 
into a jim-crow class at second-rate citizens, and have blamed
them for their weaknesses, laughed at their shortcomings, and cursed
them when they failed. The oppressors have often taken the laws into
their own hands and have slaughtered others without repentance, and
some have taken public offices as governors of states, senators and
congressmen of the United States, and with uplifted hands have sworn
to defend the nation against enemies foreign and domestic, and to
uphold the principles of the Federal Constitution, but then they have
defied many of the verdicts of the Supreme Court and have lived in
contempt of the same.
Against these oppressors the lovers of freedom have fought, and are
still fighting a heroic battle and will continue this fight until the enemies
of freedom are subdued and all Americans are free.
In dealing with the struggle of the American Negro, the speaker pointed
out the facts of the Negro's patriotism.
In our feeble way we have striven to help the nation grow and to come to new
heights of power. With horny hands we have felled the trees, cleared the forest,
tilled the soil, and have had a share in the cultural pattern of American life. With
the nation we have suffered, and as soldiers our sons and daughters have gladly
died, and their sacred remains rest in the earthly bosom of many nations scattered 
around the world, and some have perished on mad oceans, and their invisible
particles have found their place in the watery niches of the Seven Sects'... We
still appreciate our flag and pledge our allegiance to this Republic, and are
dedicated to the highest ideals for which it stands ... We regret however, that
there remain many shameful spots on the nation's life and character. We must
confess that there are many promises unfulfilled, and the nation is still partly
free and partly bound with chains. As a race our rights are still restricted, and
the slaves have been emancipated only in part; and for one hundred years, the
ghost of the past still haunts us and the demon of injustice brandishes his sword,
and many unjust judges still occupy, the sacred bench. We have exechanged the
chains of slavery for the cursed ropes of segregation, and the weights of servitude 
for the Burdens of discrimination. After one hundred years, legally and
morally, the nation it in many respects Where it was in 1863. The Republic is
still divided between north and south. The great rebellion still goes on, and the
Civil War has not been completely closed. The cry for deliverance is heard in
every hamlet, village, and town in the United States of America . . .
This struggle has expressed itself in many and varied forms, but historically it
has never been a struggle of violence. The voice of this oppressed minority has
been the voice of request, of reason, persuasion, and pressure by protest...
These protest pressures have expressed themselves in the form of boycotts, acts
of civil disobedience, economic reprisals, and mass parades. The purposes of
these pressures are clear.
1. To secure immediate deliverance from the perils, penalties, and
shame of segregation.
2. To gain first-class citizenship in every aspect of American life.
3. To shook the conscience of America and goad the majority into
action against injustice.
4. To expose these tint within the United States to the world in order
that the whole nation might repent in shame and change her ways,
and enforce her laws, and respect all men, and grant to all citizens
first-class rights, first-class opportunities, and first-class responsibilities. 

However, we must admit there are some daggers in pressure by protect.
1. Since it is designed to change the minds of others for the better, if it
does not accomplish this end immediately, we may tend to become discouraged
and bitter.
2. Our limited economic resources will handicap us as a minority if this
type of battle is long and intensive.
3. If pressure by protest should remove all barriers and win for the American 
Negro all victories against their oppressors, they still must face the long and
arduous task of building their economic fortunes, getting better training in the
professional and scientific fields, and acquiring the type of preparation that is
most essential in this age of automation and under the spell of atomic science.
Here members of the Negro community seek to solve some of the problems they
face by producing some of the things they desire, and thus making them available 
not only for their own race, but for the community both colored and white.
They are led to organize capital, build stores, and produce those things that are
needed and acceptable and appreciated by first-class American citizens. Pressure
by production has some disadvantages:
1. It requires more time for victory than pressure by protest.
2. It does not satisfy at once the impatient spirit of the oppressed, and at
times it seems to move too slowly.
3. It is not as popular and is less glamorous than pressure by protest.
But there are some distinct advantages in pressure by production.
1. It need not wholly negate pressure by protest; that is, while we
build for ourselves and become a competitor with others, we may also
make known the acts of injustice and the sins of discrimination.
2. Pressure by production is designed to improve the lot both of the
oppressed and of the whole community. If the white community does not
accept or respond to pressure by production, the Negro community would
still be successful in lifting its own economical and cultural standard, thereby 
blessing themselves and the community in which they live.
3. If the desire is that we will not trade where we ore discriminated
against, production gives us a place to trade while we await a change in
policy in stores that discriminate and segregate. The truth is, one can wait
longer before going to such a store when one has access to a store where
none of these negatives are encountered or practiced. It is not enough to
give the order that we will not buy groceries and clothing where we are
discriminated against, we must provide a place where groceries, clothing
and shoes may be purchased, and such stores should be built by cooperative
effort so that they will attract the best people among all citizens of the
United States, and the service should be high class, the goods of the highest
caliber.
It is not too much to ask that on the level of production we build some of the
finest restaurants and cafes by cooperative effort, for any restaurant that is
clean and first-class, with food well-seasoned, well-seasoned, and well-cooked, will
attract hungry people in spite pf the color of their skin. Pressure by production
will not allow us to be satisfied just to eat in a nother's restaurant or to be employed, 
in a store owned by other people. Here we labor to change the relationship 
from customer to owner, to that of owner to owner; that is to say, in pressure 
by protest, we leave the store in the hands of our white friends and seek
only the chance and the right to spend our money there, in protest by production
we purchase a store and become a store owner as bur whit? friends, and welcome 
all races and peoples to become our customers. It is not economically sound
to invest our money, in such a way that we weaken ourselves as an economic
group and make economically stronger a segregating and discriminating group.
The day must come when in the field if business Negroes must compete with
their white neighbors as they now compete in sports, in the arts, and in the professions. 

In the scientific field we need not wait until another discovers the formula and
creates the potent and acquires the copyright. The book of knowledge is open,
the highway of wisdom is available, the temple of creativity is not locked; let
us go in, and with the raw materials available, increase the numbers of those
Who are the producers of new commodities and the creators of new implements;
for it is now a matter of record that where the science of medicine is known,
and the art of healing is possessed, men of all colors and classes will knock at
the door and seek admittance to the physicians' office if his skin is as black
as a thousand midnights. Learn well your song, and drink deeply from the
Pierian springs of inspiring music, and the world will bow at your feet and will
delight to sing of your greatness as it has already done for Roland Hayes of
yesteryears, and of Marion Anderson of a more recent date. To young Negroes
I say, let not the opportunity slip. Remember the possibilities of creativity in the
days of thy youth. Spend well the hours of research, study, and thought while
the years of maturity are not yet and the days of rush, conflict, and contest are
not upon you. Fix our eyes now upon the highest mental, moral, and spiritual
star, and go forward and upward by the sparkling light of the same. Open the
sails of your human potentials to the winds of fate and set them for soiling towards 
life's highest and most lofty goals, and make sure of possessing inner
motor power and fuel that will guarantee the continuity of the voyage though
the waves of discrimination be high, and the madcaps of prejudice are breaking
fast, and howling storms beat and tug at your ship with dreadful ferocious, and
merciless power. It is good to fall heir to accumulated wealth and to contend for
and get one's share in the legacies of the past, but it is much better to be armed
with the genius to invent, the ingenuity to produce, and the eternal spirit to
create; for in this context, a Thomas Edison finds an abiding light if the sun
goes down, and a Henry Ford releases the horseless chariots in the streets, and
a gifted Alexander Bell bridges the chasms of distance and puts all comers in
speaking range of their neighbors.
While we shall do all within our power to overcome every obstacle, remove
every hindering stone, and to come to the full stature of first-class citizenship
in this country, we will not forget however, to work with our many allies that are
now at hand in this great undertaking. Our allies are all American citizens-who
are dedicated to democracy, also the Federal Constitution, the courts of the
land, and every agency of government working for the full realization of the
American dream. The nation herself then has a task in this matter of completing
what has been so nobly begun ...
America must not ask the searchers for freedom to delay their efforts and to
dismiss the quest, for they could not stop if they tried. And the desire to achieve
freedom could not be dismissed if the notion willed it. This desire is as natural
as hunger, thirst, rest, and repose after the labors of the day.
We cannot shrink from our quest for freedom to ease the labors and the duties
of the state. The notion knows well that there can be no compromise at this point
between the citizens and the state. Tell all America freedom is a gift from God,
and its seeds are planted deeply in the souls of men by the Divine Hand, and
no human agency can pluck them out, no flood can wash them away, and no
power con destroy them. The decrees of masters cannot enthrall freedom. The
threats of demagogues will never change it. Biting dogs cannot gnaw it away.
Mobs will never lynch it. Swords cannot separate freedom from the delicate

tissues of the human soul. Charging guns have not eliminated freedom, and
high-powered rifles cannot snuff it out. America, America; prison cells cannot
contain freedom, dungeons will never destroy its fires have not consumed it. If will
never slumber in the graves of honored heroes, and hell with all of its power
will never put an end to it; for even if Crushed to the earth, freedom will in the
course of time rise again, for it is immortal in its nature, divine in its origin, and
eternal in its purpose.
The United States must not and cannot stand idly by and leave this contest in the
hands of the segregators and the segregated, and await the outcome of this
crucial battle between the oppressors and the oppressed. It is the nation's responsibility 
to assure and guarantee freedom to all of its citizens. Too long has
the nation delayed, too long has she postponed direct and immediate action, too
long has she left the struggle in the hands of others, and all too long has she
relegated the task of the achievement of civil rights to a secondary place in her
life and action. The nation must act and act now. If she doesn't act, the present
conflict will breed more confusion, and the present battle will end in a tragic
defeat for the nation. If America does not solve the problem of civil rights constructively, 
she will lose her moral leadership of the free world, and will deny
her own assumption of justice and liberty. The suffering of one part of the notion
reflects itself in the affliction and penalty of the whole.
If one-tenth of the nation's population must be kept in chains, then the other
nine-tenths must live and rear their children in the sight of, and in the fear of
encroaching poverty, and if part of a democracy must be afflicted by the pangs
of segregation and discrimination, then all must live near the dreadful camp of
ignorance and spend their days suffering from the same diseases with which
the port is inflicted. If the rich rob the poor, they must be taxed to guarantee
relief for their needy victims. Remember, the jailer himself is in a sense a prisoner
with his prisoners, and the hangman who springs the trap, himself dies a
thousand deaths...
There are too many isms seeking to invade our country and too many potential
enemies within for the government to take lightly the task of making first-class
citizens out of ail of her people .....
We must tell our congressmen, the governors of our several states, that the civil
rights struggle is not a racial struggle alone. It is the struggle for the very life
of the nation.
Tell Congress when a civil rights bill is before the United States Congress or any
similar bill that has to do with the nation's character and life, it should receive
priority because of what it means to the future of this great Republic.
Tell Congress there will be little use to concentrate on secondaries if the primary
things of the nation dire overlooked and lost. It is not wise for groups, nationalities, 
and races to strive for that which is peculiar to them when the nation's life
is at stake.
Tell the nation north and south it is a most serious blunder for Americans to
talk about the purity of race and the preservation of the Caucasian tradition
when the whole nation is threatened from within.
Tell Congress when the ship at sea is on fire and the bucket brigade is
necessary to extinguish the flames, any passenger is ill-informed or wrongly
directed if said passenger Seeks to protect his stateroom and to exclude himself 
from the joint struggle of passenger and crew to save the endangered
ship. All must work together to save the ship or all aboard, including the
captain, his crew, and passengers will go down together to a common
arave beneath a foaming sea.
Tell the United States Congress, tell the north, and tell the south that after
a hundred years the nation's life is in danger and the ship of state is on
fire. The chief executive, the Congress of the United States, and all Citizens
black and white must join the bucket brigade to put out the fires of prejudice, 
hatred, and inequality, or else all shall perish in the crucial defeat
of the nation ....
The liberty of no people con rest on the broken lives of others, and the
eternal security of a nation cannot be built on the bending bocks of slaves
or the broken bodies of the oppressed and the bleached bones of the
slaughtered. In the interest of herself, and for the preservation of her own
soul, our nation must solve the problem of civil rights and give to each
American citizen the portion of goods that rightfully belongs to him.
Our nation cannot forsake her highest ideals, nor forget her most lofty
dreams and pluck up the foundation stones of freedom and truth on which
our fathers builded. America must not suffer her sacred documents, promising 
human dignity and freedom, to be burned in a furnace of envy
and hate. She will not fail herself or mankind. She has travelled too far
on the road of democracy and freedom to ever turn back to the slime and
scum of human servitude and any form of chattel slavery ...
1. Many who heard it said it was one of the greatest addresses delivered
on civil rights since the days of Frederick Douglass.
2. "It was a great plea for the freedom movement within the framework
of the Federal Constitution and the American philosophy of freedom."
3. Some said, "This was more than an address, it was a directive and a
charter for action in the present and future struggle for civil rights."
4. Many said, "This is the voice of a Christian statesman who has faith in
himself, in his race, his notion, and his God."
5. "Seldom have I ever seen a vast audience so moved and insured."
When the speaker recounted his experience in crossing a picket line to
reach his pulpit to preach, a strange silence gripped the audience and many
wept. When he exhorted all ministers to be prepared for such an experience,
and whenever they face such, a picket line, they must cross it and walk heavily
as they cross, the vast audience took on, an atmosphere of action abd participation, 
and one aged minister was seen to stand and walk bock and
forth as if he
were crossing a picket line. The Governor of the State of Ohio sat in rapt attention 
throughout the whole, address and was visibly moved. At the close of the
address he was one of the first on his feet among thousands of others, He was
heard to say this was one of the greatest addresses to which he had ever listened.
In Dr. J. H. Jackson not only do five million National Baptist have a
great champion, but the Negro race and American democracy have a trusted
spokesman. He never separates the struggle of the Negro race from the American 
struggle. And if there are those who have attached themselves to the civil
rights movement with ulterior motives and for the purpose of using the struggle
to wage a secret bottle against the nation and against religion, said persons
must always regard patriotic Americans, be they colored or white, as their
serious opponents. Dr. J. H. Jackson believes that his race hot the ability to
achieve all of its high goals by working in harmony with the Federal Constitution 
and in the American way of life. His unquestioned patriotism renders him
a serious opponent to the enemies of the nation foreign and domestic, and his
unifying faith in God renders him an unrelenting champion of the Christian
religion.
The Unanimous voice of five thousand official delegates in the adoption of
all measures presented, along with the unanimous reelection of the president for
another term, was a testimony of the faith of the people in his leadership, and
undisputed evidence that Dr. J. H. Jackson it not alone in advocating a Christian
militancy in the present crises.

B. The Nature Of The Struggle
It was known that Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist
Convention, U.S.A., Inc., would deliver his annual address at 11:00 a.m. There
was the usual keen interest and anticipation of what would be said. At 10:00
a.m. streets leading to the auditorium were jammed, traffic tied up for blocks,
as thousands hurried to set seats. They were rushing to hear one of the great
religious statesmen of our time, a man who
speaks with courage and conviction. Not only
his friends, but his enemies, regard him at a
leader with rare gifts and ability. He has
combined profound thought with deep love of
his race and his nation with a vital faith in
God. Those who fear his power of persuasion
seek to hinder his speech. This, in a large
measure explains why he was not allowed to
address the national convention for The Advancement 
of Colored People July 4th in
Chicago, Illinois.
No true American citizen, militant or
moderate, will disagree with the basic position 
of Dr. J. H. Jackson on the fundamentals
of civil rights when his position is really
known. It is his position that whatever it done
in the struggle for civil rights should always
be regulated by three standards:
1. The letter and spirit of the Federal 
Constitution.
2. The American philosophy of freedom. 

3. The Judeo - Christian view of hymen life and human relationship.
Dr. Jackson is a militant Christian who believes in a Christian militancy as an
approach to civil rights and all other problems of human relations both national
and international.
Because we desire the public to know something of Dr. Jackson's real
position, and because some of us who know the truth have joined together
for the purpose of correcting the false images created by giving to the public
the facts the case.
Our first effort is to give some excerpts from the great address delivered
in Cleveland, Ohio with some comments. The address may be divided roughly
into three sections, namely: (1.) The Work of Segregators. (2.) The Struggle of
the American Negro the Segregated. (3). The Task of the Nation.
Here the speaker sets forth with clarity, the position that has been taken
by those who believe in segregation. Said he:
These have skillfully manipulated the Federal Constitution for the past
one hundred years in order to defend their dogma of segregation end
to justify their sins of discrimination ... They have bolted and barred
the doors of many institutions of learning and have denied others access 
to the ballot box. In the name of democracy they have stolen the
liberty from others and hove forced one-tenth of the nation's population 
into a jim-crow class at second-rate citizens, and have blamed
them for their weaknesses, laughed at their shortcomings, and cursed
them when they failed. The oppressors have often taken the laws into
their own hands and have slaughtered others without repentance, and
some have taken public offices as governors of states, senators and
congressmen of the United States, and with uplifted hands have sworn
to defend the nation against enemies foreign and domestic, and to
uphold the principles of the Federal Constitution, but then they have
defied many of the verdicts of the Supreme Court and have lived in
contempt of the same.
Against these oppressors the lovers of freedom have fought, and are
still fighting a heroic battle and will continue this fight until the enemies
of freedom are subdued and all Americans are free.
In dealing with the struggle of the American Negro, the speaker pointed
out the facts of the Negro's patriotism.
In our feeble way we have striven to help the nation grow and to come to new
heights of power. With horny hands we have felled the trees, cleared the forest,
tilled the soil, and have had a share in the cultural pattern of American life. With
the nation we have suffered, and as soldiers our sons and daughters have gladly
died, and their sacred remains rest in the earthly bosom of many nations scattered 
around the world, and some have perished on mad oceans, and their invisible
particles have found their place in the watery niches of the Seven Sects'... We
still appreciate our flag and pledge our allegiance to this Republic, and are
dedicated to the highest ideals for which it stands ... We regret however, that
there remain many shameful spots on the nation's life and character. We must
confess that there are many promises unfulfilled, and the nation is still partly
free and partly bound with chains. As a race our rights are still restricted, and
the slaves have been emancipated only in part; and for one hundred years, the
ghost of the past still haunts us and the demon of injustice brandishes his sword,
and many unjust judges still occupy, the sacred bench. We have exechanged the
chains of slavery for the cursed ropes of segregation, and the weights of servitude 
for the Burdens of discrimination. After one hundred years, legally and
morally, the nation it in many respects Where it was in 1863. The Republic is
still divided between north and south. The great rebellion still goes on, and the
Civil War has not been completely closed. The cry for deliverance is heard in
every hamlet, village, and town in the United States of America . . .
This struggle has expressed itself in many and varied forms, but historically it
has never been a struggle of violence. The voice of this oppressed minority has
been the voice of request, of reason, persuasion, and pressure by protest...
These protest pressures have expressed themselves in the form of boycotts, acts
of civil disobedience, economic reprisals, and mass parades. The purposes of
these pressures are clear.
1. To secure immediate deliverance from the perils, penalties, and
shame of segregation.
2. To gain first-class citizenship in every aspect of American life.
3. To shook the conscience of America and goad the majority into
action against injustice.
4. To expose these tint within the United States to the world in order
that the whole nation might repent in shame and change her ways,
and enforce her laws, and respect all men, and grant to all citizens
first-class rights, first-class opportunities, and first-class responsibilities. 

However, we must admit there are some daggers in pressure by protect.
1. Since it is designed to change the minds of others for the better, if it
does not accomplish this end immediately, we may tend to become discouraged
and bitter.
2. Our limited economic resources will handicap us as a minority if this
type of battle is long and intensive.
3. If pressure by protest should remove all barriers and win for the American 
Negro all victories against their oppressors, they still must face the long and
arduous task of building their economic fortunes, getting better training in the
professional and scientific fields, and acquiring the type of preparation that is
most essential in this age of automation and under the spell of atomic science.
Here members of the Negro community seek to solve some of the problems they
face by producing some of the things they desire, and thus making them available 
not only for their own race, but for the community both colored and white.
They are led to organize capital, build stores, and produce those things that are
needed and acceptable and appreciated by first-class American citizens. Pressure
by production has some disadvantages:
1. It requires more time for victory than pressure by protest.
2. It does not satisfy at once the impatient spirit of the oppressed, and at
times it seems to move too slowly.
3. It is not as popular and is less glamorous than pressure by protest.
But there are some distinct advantages in pressure by production.
1. It need not wholly negate pressure by protest; that is, while we
build for ourselves and become a competitor with others, we may also
make known the acts of injustice and the sins of discrimination.
2. Pressure by production is designed to improve the lot both of the
oppressed and of the whole community. If the white community does not
accept or respond to pressure by production, the Negro community would
still be successful in lifting its own economical and cultural standard, thereby 
blessing themselves and the community in which they live.
3. If the desire is that we will not trade where we ore discriminated
against, production gives us a place to trade while we await a change in
policy in stores that discriminate and segregate. The truth is, one can wait
longer before going to such a store when one has access to a store where
none of these negatives are encountered or practiced. It is not enough to
give the order that we will not buy groceries and clothing where we are
discriminated against, we must provide a place where groceries, clothing
and shoes may be purchased, and such stores should be built by cooperative
effort so that they will attract the best people among all citizens of the
United States, and the service should be high class, the goods of the highest
caliber.
It is not too much to ask that on the level of production we build some of the
finest restaurants and cafes by cooperative effort, for any restaurant that is
clean and first-class, with food well-seasoned, well-seasoned, and well-cooked, will
attract hungry people in spite pf the color of their skin. Pressure by production
will not allow us to be satisfied just to eat in a nother's restaurant or to be employed, 
in a store owned by other people. Here we labor to change the relationship 
from customer to owner, to that of owner to owner; that is to say, in pressure 
by protest, we leave the store in the hands of our white friends and seek
only the chance and the right to spend our money there, in protest by production
we purchase a store and become a store owner as bur whit? friends, and welcome 
all races and peoples to become our customers. It is not economically sound
to invest our money, in such a way that we weaken ourselves as an economic
group and make economically stronger a segregating and discriminating group.
The day must come when in the field if business Negroes must compete with
their white neighbors as they now compete in sports, in the arts, and in the professions. 

In the scientific field we need not wait until another discovers the formula and
creates the potent and acquires the copyright. The book of knowledge is open,
the highway of wisdom is available, the temple of creativity is not locked; let
us go in, and with the raw materials available, increase the numbers of those
Who are the producers of new commodities and the creators of new implements;
for it is now a matter of record that where the science of medicine is known,
and the art of healing is possessed, men of all colors and classes will knock at
the door and seek admittance to the physicians' office if his skin is as black
as a thousand midnights. Learn well your song, and drink deeply from the
Pierian springs of inspiring music, and the world will bow at your feet and will
delight to sing of your greatness as it has already done for Roland Hayes of
yesteryears, and of Marion Anderson of a more recent date. To young Negroes
I say, let not the opportunity slip. Remember the possibilities of creativity in the
days of thy youth. Spend well the hours of research, study, and thought while
the years of maturity are not yet and the days of rush, conflict, and contest are
not upon you. Fix our eyes now upon the highest mental, moral, and spiritual
star, and go forward and upward by the sparkling light of the same. Open the
sails of your human potentials to the winds of fate and set them for soiling towards 
life's highest and most lofty goals, and make sure of possessing inner
motor power and fuel that will guarantee the continuity of the voyage though
the waves of discrimination be high, and the madcaps of prejudice are breaking
fast, and howling storms beat and tug at your ship with dreadful ferocious, and
merciless power. It is good to fall heir to accumulated wealth and to contend for
and get one's share in the legacies of the past, but it is much better to be armed
with the genius to invent, the ingenuity to produce, and the eternal spirit to
create; for in this context, a Thomas Edison finds an abiding light if the sun
goes down, and a Henry Ford releases the horseless chariots in the streets, and
a gifted Alexander Bell bridges the chasms of distance and puts all comers in
speaking range of their neighbors.
While we shall do all within our power to overcome every obstacle, remove
every hindering stone, and to come to the full stature of first-class citizenship
in this country, we will not forget however, to work with our many allies that are
now at hand in this great undertaking. Our allies are all American citizens-who
are dedicated to democracy, also the Federal Constitution, the courts of the
land, and every agency of government working for the full realization of the
American dream. The nation herself then has a task in this matter of completing
what has been so nobly begun ...
America must not ask the searchers for freedom to delay their efforts and to
dismiss the quest, for they could not stop if they tried. And the desire to achieve
freedom could not be dismissed if the notion willed it. This desire is as natural
as hunger, thirst, rest, and repose after the labors of the day.
We cannot shrink from our quest for freedom to ease the labors and the duties
of the state. The notion knows well that there can be no compromise at this point
between the citizens and the state. Tell all America freedom is a gift from God,
and its seeds are planted deeply in the souls of men by the Divine Hand, and
no human agency can pluck them out, no flood can wash them away, and no
power con destroy them. The decrees of masters cannot enthrall freedom. The
threats of demagogues will never change it. Biting dogs cannot gnaw it away.
Mobs will never lynch it. Swords cannot separate freedom from the delicate

tissues of the human soul. Charging guns have not eliminated freedom, and
high-powered rifles cannot snuff it out. America, America; prison cells cannot
contain freedom, dungeons will never destroy its fires have not consumed it. If will
never slumber in the graves of honored heroes, and hell with all of its power
will never put an end to it; for even if Crushed to the earth, freedom will in the
course of time rise again, for it is immortal in its nature, divine in its origin, and
eternal in its purpose.
The United States must not and cannot stand idly by and leave this contest in the
hands of the segregators and the segregated, and await the outcome of this
crucial battle between the oppressors and the oppressed. It is the nation's responsibility 
to assure and guarantee freedom to all of its citizens. Too long has
the nation delayed, too long has she postponed direct and immediate action, too
long has she left the struggle in the hands of others, and all too long has she
relegated the task of the achievement of civil rights to a secondary place in her
life and action. The nation must act and act now. If she doesn't act, the present
conflict will breed more confusion, and the present battle will end in a tragic
defeat for the nation. If America does not solve the problem of civil rights constructively, 
she will lose her moral leadership of the free world, and will deny
her own assumption of justice and liberty. The suffering of one part of the notion
reflects itself in the affliction and penalty of the whole.
If one-tenth of the nation's population must be kept in chains, then the other
nine-tenths must live and rear their children in the sight of, and in the fear of
encroaching poverty, and if part of a democracy must be afflicted by the pangs
of segregation and discrimination, then all must live near the dreadful camp of
ignorance and spend their days suffering from the same diseases with which
the port is inflicted. If the rich rob the poor, they must be taxed to guarantee
relief for their needy victims. Remember, the jailer himself is in a sense a prisoner
with his prisoners, and the hangman who springs the trap, himself dies a
thousand deaths...
There are too many isms seeking to invade our country and too many potential
enemies within for the government to take lightly the task of making first-class
citizens out of ail of her people .....
We must tell our congressmen, the governors of our several states, that the civil
rights struggle is not a racial struggle alone. It is the struggle for the very life
of the nation.
Tell Congress when a civil rights bill is before the United States Congress or any
similar bill that has to do with the nation's character and life, it should receive
priority because of what it means to the future of this great Republic.
Tell Congress there will be little use to concentrate on secondaries if the primary
things of the nation dire overlooked and lost. It is not wise for groups, nationalities, 
and races to strive for that which is peculiar to them when the nation's life
is at stake.
Tell the nation north and south it is a most serious blunder for Americans to
talk about the purity of race and the preservation of the Caucasian tradition
when the whole nation is threatened from within.
Tell Congress when the ship at sea is on fire and the bucket brigade is
necessary to extinguish the flames, any passenger is ill-informed or wrongly
directed if said passenger Seeks to protect his stateroom and to exclude himself 
from the joint struggle of passenger and crew to save the endangered
ship. All must work together to save the ship or all aboard, including the
captain, his crew, and passengers will go down together to a common
arave beneath a foaming sea.
Tell the United States Congress, tell the north, and tell the south that after
a hundred years the nation's life is in danger and the ship of state is on
fire. The chief executive, the Congress of the United States, and all Citizens
black and white must join the bucket brigade to put out the fires of prejudice, 
hatred, and inequality, or else all shall perish in the crucial defeat
of the nation ....
The liberty of no people con rest on the broken lives of others, and the
eternal security of a nation cannot be built on the bending bocks of slaves
or the broken bodies of the oppressed and the bleached bones of the
slaughtered. In the interest of herself, and for the preservation of her own
soul, our nation must solve the problem of civil rights and give to each
American citizen the portion of goods that rightfully belongs to him.
Our nation cannot forsake her highest ideals, nor forget her most lofty
dreams and pluck up the foundation stones of freedom and truth on which
our fathers builded. America must not suffer her sacred documents, promising 
human dignity and freedom, to be burned in a furnace of envy
and hate. She will not fail herself or mankind. She has travelled too far
on the road of democracy and freedom to ever turn back to the slime and
scum of human servitude and any form of chattel slavery ...
1. Many who heard it said it was one of the greatest addresses delivered
on civil rights since the days of Frederick Douglass.
2. "It was a great plea for the freedom movement within the framework
of the Federal Constitution and the American philosophy of freedom."
3. Some said, "This was more than an address, it was a directive and a
charter for action in the present and future struggle for civil rights."
4. Many said, "This is the voice of a Christian statesman who has faith in
himself, in his race, his notion, and his God."
5. "Seldom have I ever seen a vast audience so moved and insured."
When the speaker recounted his experience in crossing a picket line to
reach his pulpit to preach, a strange silence gripped the audience and many
wept. When he exhorted all ministers to be prepared for such an experience,
and whenever they face such, a picket line, they must cross it and walk heavily
as they cross, the vast audience took on, an atmosphere of action abd participation, 
and one aged minister was seen to stand and walk bock and
forth as if he
were crossing a picket line. The Governor of the State of Ohio sat in rapt attention 
throughout the whole, address and was visibly moved. At the close of the
address he was one of the first on his feet among thousands of others, He was
heard to say this was one of the greatest addresses to which he had ever listened.
In Dr. J. H. Jackson not only do five million National Baptist have a
great champion, but the Negro race and American democracy have a trusted
spokesman. He never separates the struggle of the Negro race from the American 
struggle. And if there are those who have attached themselves to the civil
rights movement with ulterior motives and for the purpose of using the struggle
to wage a secret bottle against the nation and against religion, said persons
must always regard patriotic Americans, be they colored or white, as their
serious opponents. Dr. J. H. Jackson believes that his race hot the ability to
achieve all of its high goals by working in harmony with the Federal Constitution 
and in the American way of life. His unquestioned patriotism renders him
a serious opponent to the enemies of the nation foreign and domestic, and his
unifying faith in God renders him an unrelenting champion of the Christian
religion.
The Unanimous voice of five thousand official delegates in the adoption of
all measures presented, along with the unanimous reelection of the president for
another term, was a testimony of the faith of the people in his leadership, and
undisputed evidence that Dr. J. H. Jackson it not alone in advocating a Christian
militancy in the present crises.

Pressure By Protest
It was known that Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist
Convention, U.S.A., Inc., would deliver his annual address at 11:00 a.m. There
was the usual keen interest and anticipation of what would be said. At 10:00
a.m. streets leading to the auditorium were jammed, traffic tied up for blocks,
as thousands hurried to set seats. They were rushing to hear one of the great
religious statesmen of our time, a man who
speaks with courage and conviction. Not only
his friends, but his enemies, regard him at a
leader with rare gifts and ability. He has
combined profound thought with deep love of
his race and his nation with a vital faith in
God. Those who fear his power of persuasion
seek to hinder his speech. This, in a large
measure explains why he was not allowed to
address the national convention for The Advancement 
of Colored People July 4th in
Chicago, Illinois.
No true American citizen, militant or
moderate, will disagree with the basic position 
of Dr. J. H. Jackson on the fundamentals
of civil rights when his position is really
known. It is his position that whatever it done
in the struggle for civil rights should always
be regulated by three standards:
1. The letter and spirit of the Federal 
Constitution.
2. The American philosophy of freedom. 

3. The Judeo - Christian view of hymen life and human relationship.
Dr. Jackson is a militant Christian who believes in a Christian militancy as an
approach to civil rights and all other problems of human relations both national
and international.
Because we desire the public to know something of Dr. Jackson's real
position, and because some of us who know the truth have joined together
for the purpose of correcting the false images created by giving to the public
the facts the case.
Our first effort is to give some excerpts from the great address delivered
in Cleveland, Ohio with some comments. The address may be divided roughly
into three sections, namely: (1.) The Work of Segregators. (2.) The Struggle of
the American Negro the Segregated. (3). The Task of the Nation.
Here the speaker sets forth with clarity, the position that has been taken
by those who believe in segregation. Said he:
These have skillfully manipulated the Federal Constitution for the past
one hundred years in order to defend their dogma of segregation end
to justify their sins of discrimination ... They have bolted and barred
the doors of many institutions of learning and have denied others access 
to the ballot box. In the name of democracy they have stolen the
liberty from others and hove forced one-tenth of the nation's population 
into a jim-crow class at second-rate citizens, and have blamed
them for their weaknesses, laughed at their shortcomings, and cursed
them when they failed. The oppressors have often taken the laws into
their own hands and have slaughtered others without repentance, and
some have taken public offices as governors of states, senators and
congressmen of the United States, and with uplifted hands have sworn
to defend the nation against enemies foreign and domestic, and to
uphold the principles of the Federal Constitution, but then they have
defied many of the verdicts of the Supreme Court and have lived in
contempt of the same.
Against these oppressors the lovers of freedom have fought, and are
still fighting a heroic battle and will continue this fight until the enemies
of freedom are subdued and all Americans are free.
In dealing with the struggle of the American Negro, the speaker pointed
out the facts of the Negro's patriotism.
In our feeble way we have striven to help the nation grow and to come to new
heights of power. With horny hands we have felled the trees, cleared the forest,
tilled the soil, and have had a share in the cultural pattern of American life. With
the nation we have suffered, and as soldiers our sons and daughters have gladly
died, and their sacred remains rest in the earthly bosom of many nations scattered 
around the world, and some have perished on mad oceans, and their invisible
particles have found their place in the watery niches of the Seven Sects'... We
still appreciate our flag and pledge our allegiance to this Republic, and are
dedicated to the highest ideals for which it stands ... We regret however, that
there remain many shameful spots on the nation's life and character. We must
confess that there are many promises unfulfilled, and the nation is still partly
free and partly bound with chains. As a race our rights are still restricted, and
the slaves have been emancipated only in part; and for one hundred years, the
ghost of the past still haunts us and the demon of injustice brandishes his sword,
and many unjust judges still occupy, the sacred bench. We have exechanged the
chains of slavery for the cursed ropes of segregation, and the weights of servitude 
for the Burdens of discrimination. After one hundred years, legally and
morally, the nation it in many respects Where it was in 1863. The Republic is
still divided between north and south. The great rebellion still goes on, and the
Civil War has not been completely closed. The cry for deliverance is heard in
every hamlet, village, and town in the United States of America . . .
This struggle has expressed itself in many and varied forms, but historically it
has never been a struggle of violence. The voice of this oppressed minority has
been the voice of request, of reason, persuasion, and pressure by protest...
These protest pressures have expressed themselves in the form of boycotts, acts
of civil disobedience, economic reprisals, and mass parades. The purposes of
these pressures are clear.
1. To secure immediate deliverance from the perils, penalties, and
shame of segregation.
2. To gain first-class citizenship in every aspect of American life.
3. To shook the conscience of America and goad the majority into
action against injustice.
4. To expose these tint within the United States to the world in order
that the whole nation might repent in shame and change her ways,
and enforce her laws, and respect all men, and grant to all citizens
first-class rights, first-class opportunities, and first-class responsibilities. 

However, we must admit there are some daggers in pressure by protect.
1. Since it is designed to change the minds of others for the better, if it
does not accomplish this end immediately, we may tend to become discouraged
and bitter.
2. Our limited economic resources will handicap us as a minority if this
type of battle is long and intensive.
3. If pressure by protest should remove all barriers and win for the American 
Negro all victories against their oppressors, they still must face the long and
arduous task of building their economic fortunes, getting better training in the
professional and scientific fields, and acquiring the type of preparation that is
most essential in this age of automation and under the spell of atomic science.
Here members of the Negro community seek to solve some of the problems they
face by producing some of the things they desire, and thus making them available 
not only for their own race, but for the community both colored and white.
They are led to organize capital, build stores, and produce those things that are
needed and acceptable and appreciated by first-class American citizens. Pressure
by production has some disadvantages:
1. It requires more time for victory than pressure by protest.
2. It does not satisfy at once the impatient spirit of the oppressed, and at
times it seems to move too slowly.
3. It is not as popular and is less glamorous than pressure by protest.
But there are some distinct advantages in pressure by production.
1. It need not wholly negate pressure by protest; that is, while we
build for ourselves and become a competitor with others, we may also
make known the acts of injustice and the sins of discrimination.
2. Pressure by production is designed to improve the lot both of the
oppressed and of the whole community. If the white community does not
accept or respond to pressure by production, the Negro community would
still be successful in lifting its own economical and cultural standard, thereby 
blessing themselves and the community in which they live.
3. If the desire is that we will not trade where we ore discriminated
against, production gives us a place to trade while we await a change in
policy in stores that discriminate and segregate. The truth is, one can wait
longer before going to such a store when one has access to a store where
none of these negatives are encountered or practiced. It is not enough to
give the order that we will not buy groceries and clothing where we are
discriminated against, we must provide a place where groceries, clothing
and shoes may be purchased, and such stores should be built by cooperative
effort so that they will attract the best people among all citizens of the
United States, and the service should be high class, the goods of the highest
caliber.
It is not too much to ask that on the level of production we build some of the
finest restaurants and cafes by cooperative effort, for any restaurant that is
clean and first-class, with food well-seasoned, well-seasoned, and well-cooked, will
attract hungry people in spite pf the color of their skin. Pressure by production
will not allow us to be satisfied just to eat in a nother's restaurant or to be employed, 
in a store owned by other people. Here we labor to change the relationship 
from customer to owner, to that of owner to owner; that is to say, in pressure 
by protest, we leave the store in the hands of our white friends and seek
only the chance and the right to spend our money there, in protest by production
we purchase a store and become a store owner as bur whit? friends, and welcome 
all races and peoples to become our customers. It is not economically sound
to invest our money, in such a way that we weaken ourselves as an economic
group and make economically stronger a segregating and discriminating group.
The day must come when in the field if business Negroes must compete with
their white neighbors as they now compete in sports, in the arts, and in the professions. 

In the scientific field we need not wait until another discovers the formula and
creates the potent and acquires the copyright. The book of knowledge is open,
the highway of wisdom is available, the temple of creativity is not locked; let
us go in, and with the raw materials available, increase the numbers of those
Who are the producers of new commodities and the creators of new implements;
for it is now a matter of record that where the science of medicine is known,
and the art of healing is possessed, men of all colors and classes will knock at
the door and seek admittance to the physicians' office if his skin is as black
as a thousand midnights. Learn well your song, and drink deeply from the
Pierian springs of inspiring music, and the world will bow at your feet and will
delight to sing of your greatness as it has already done for Roland Hayes of
yesteryears, and of Marion Anderson of a more recent date. To young Negroes
I say, let not the opportunity slip. Remember the possibilities of creativity in the
days of thy youth. Spend well the hours of research, study, and thought while
the years of maturity are not yet and the days of rush, conflict, and contest are
not upon you. Fix our eyes now upon the highest mental, moral, and spiritual
star, and go forward and upward by the sparkling light of the same. Open the
sails of your human potentials to the winds of fate and set them for soiling towards 
life's highest and most lofty goals, and make sure of possessing inner
motor power and fuel that will guarantee the continuity of the voyage though
the waves of discrimination be high, and the madcaps of prejudice are breaking
fast, and howling storms beat and tug at your ship with dreadful ferocious, and
merciless power. It is good to fall heir to accumulated wealth and to contend for
and get one's share in the legacies of the past, but it is much better to be armed
with the genius to invent, the ingenuity to produce, and the eternal spirit to
create; for in this context, a Thomas Edison finds an abiding light if the sun
goes down, and a Henry Ford releases the horseless chariots in the streets, and
a gifted Alexander Bell bridges the chasms of distance and puts all comers in
speaking range of their neighbors.
While we shall do all within our power to overcome every obstacle, remove
every hindering stone, and to come to the full stature of first-class citizenship
in this country, we will not forget however, to work with our many allies that are
now at hand in this great undertaking. Our allies are all American citizens-who
are dedicated to democracy, also the Federal Constitution, the courts of the
land, and every agency of government working for the full realization of the
American dream. The nation herself then has a task in this matter of completing
what has been so nobly begun ...
America must not ask the searchers for freedom to delay their efforts and to
dismiss the quest, for they could not stop if they tried. And the desire to achieve
freedom could not be dismissed if the notion willed it. This desire is as natural
as hunger, thirst, rest, and repose after the labors of the day.
We cannot shrink from our quest for freedom to ease the labors and the duties
of the state. The notion knows well that there can be no compromise at this point
between the citizens and the state. Tell all America freedom is a gift from God,
and its seeds are planted deeply in the souls of men by the Divine Hand, and
no human agency can pluck them out, no flood can wash them away, and no
power con destroy them. The decrees of masters cannot enthrall freedom. The
threats of demagogues will never change it. Biting dogs cannot gnaw it away.
Mobs will never lynch it. Swords cannot separate freedom from the delicate

tissues of the human soul. Charging guns have not eliminated freedom, and
high-powered rifles cannot snuff it out. America, America; prison cells cannot
contain freedom, dungeons will never destroy its fires have not consumed it. If will
never slumber in the graves of honored heroes, and hell with all of its power
will never put an end to it; for even if Crushed to the earth, freedom will in the
course of time rise again, for it is immortal in its nature, divine in its origin, and
eternal in its purpose.
The United States must not and cannot stand idly by and leave this contest in the
hands of the segregators and the segregated, and await the outcome of this
crucial battle between the oppressors and the oppressed. It is the nation's responsibility 
to assure and guarantee freedom to all of its citizens. Too long has
the nation delayed, too long has she postponed direct and immediate action, too
long has she left the struggle in the hands of others, and all too long has she
relegated the task of the achievement of civil rights to a secondary place in her
life and action. The nation must act and act now. If she doesn't act, the present
conflict will breed more confusion, and the present battle will end in a tragic
defeat for the nation. If America does not solve the problem of civil rights constructively, 
she will lose her moral leadership of the free world, and will deny
her own assumption of justice and liberty. The suffering of one part of the notion
reflects itself in the affliction and penalty of the whole.
If one-tenth of the nation's population must be kept in chains, then the other
nine-tenths must live and rear their children in the sight of, and in the fear of
encroaching poverty, and if part of a democracy must be afflicted by the pangs
of segregation and discrimination, then all must live near the dreadful camp of
ignorance and spend their days suffering from the same diseases with which
the port is inflicted. If the rich rob the poor, they must be taxed to guarantee
relief for their needy victims. Remember, the jailer himself is in a sense a prisoner
with his prisoners, and the hangman who springs the trap, himself dies a
thousand deaths...
There are too many isms seeking to invade our country and too many potential
enemies within for the government to take lightly the task of making first-class
citizens out of ail of her people .....
We must tell our congressmen, the governors of our several states, that the civil
rights struggle is not a racial struggle alone. It is the struggle for the very life
of the nation.
Tell Congress when a civil rights bill is before the United States Congress or any
similar bill that has to do with the nation's character and life, it should receive
priority because of what it means to the future of this great Republic.
Tell Congress there will be little use to concentrate on secondaries if the primary
things of the nation dire overlooked and lost. It is not wise for groups, nationalities, 
and races to strive for that which is peculiar to them when the nation's life
is at stake.
Tell the nation north and south it is a most serious blunder for Americans to
talk about the purity of race and the preservation of the Caucasian tradition
when the whole nation is threatened from within.
Tell Congress when the ship at sea is on fire and the bucket brigade is
necessary to extinguish the flames, any passenger is ill-informed or wrongly
directed if said passenger Seeks to protect his stateroom and to exclude himself 
from the joint struggle of passenger and crew to save the endangered
ship. All must work together to save the ship or all aboard, including the
captain, his crew, and passengers will go down together to a common
arave beneath a foaming sea.
Tell the United States Congress, tell the north, and tell the south that after
a hundred years the nation's life is in danger and the ship of state is on
fire. The chief executive, the Congress of the United States, and all Citizens
black and white must join the bucket brigade to put out the fires of prejudice, 
hatred, and inequality, or else all shall perish in the crucial defeat
of the nation ....
The liberty of no people con rest on the broken lives of others, and the
eternal security of a nation cannot be built on the bending bocks of slaves
or the broken bodies of the oppressed and the bleached bones of the
slaughtered. In the interest of herself, and for the preservation of her own
soul, our nation must solve the problem of civil rights and give to each
American citizen the portion of goods that rightfully belongs to him.
Our nation cannot forsake her highest ideals, nor forget her most lofty
dreams and pluck up the foundation stones of freedom and truth on which
our fathers builded. America must not suffer her sacred documents, promising 
human dignity and freedom, to be burned in a furnace of envy
and hate. She will not fail herself or mankind. She has travelled too far
on the road of democracy and freedom to ever turn back to the slime and
scum of human servitude and any form of chattel slavery ...
1. Many who heard it said it was one of the greatest addresses delivered
on civil rights since the days of Frederick Douglass.
2. "It was a great plea for the freedom movement within the framework
of the Federal Constitution and the American philosophy of freedom."
3. Some said, "This was more than an address, it was a directive and a
charter for action in the present and future struggle for civil rights."
4. Many said, "This is the voice of a Christian statesman who has faith in
himself, in his race, his notion, and his God."
5. "Seldom have I ever seen a vast audience so moved and insured."
When the speaker recounted his experience in crossing a picket line to
reach his pulpit to preach, a strange silence gripped the audience and many
wept. When he exhorted all ministers to be prepared for such an experience,
and whenever they face such, a picket line, they must cross it and walk heavily
as they cross, the vast audience took on, an atmosphere of action abd participation, 
and one aged minister was seen to stand and walk bock and
forth as if he
were crossing a picket line. The Governor of the State of Ohio sat in rapt attention 
throughout the whole, address and was visibly moved. At the close of the
address he was one of the first on his feet among thousands of others, He was
heard to say this was one of the greatest addresses to which he had ever listened.
In Dr. J. H. Jackson not only do five million National Baptist have a
great champion, but the Negro race and American democracy have a trusted
spokesman. He never separates the struggle of the Negro race from the American 
struggle. And if there are those who have attached themselves to the civil
rights movement with ulterior motives and for the purpose of using the struggle
to wage a secret bottle against the nation and against religion, said persons
must always regard patriotic Americans, be they colored or white, as their
serious opponents. Dr. J. H. Jackson believes that his race hot the ability to
achieve all of its high goals by working in harmony with the Federal Constitution 
and in the American way of life. His unquestioned patriotism renders him
a serious opponent to the enemies of the nation foreign and domestic, and his
unifying faith in God renders him an unrelenting champion of the Christian
religion.
The Unanimous voice of five thousand official delegates in the adoption of
all measures presented, along with the unanimous reelection of the president for
another term, was a testimony of the faith of the people in his leadership, and
undisputed evidence that Dr. J. H. Jackson it not alone in advocating a Christian
militancy in the present crises.

Some Dangers In Pressure By Protest
It was known that Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist
Convention, U.S.A., Inc., would deliver his annual address at 11:00 a.m. There
was the usual keen interest and anticipation of what would be said. At 10:00
a.m. streets leading to the auditorium were jammed, traffic tied up for blocks,
as thousands hurried to set seats. They were rushing to hear one of the great
religious statesmen of our time, a man who
speaks with courage and conviction. Not only
his friends, but his enemies, regard him at a
leader with rare gifts and ability. He has
combined profound thought with deep love of
his race and his nation with a vital faith in
God. Those who fear his power of persuasion
seek to hinder his speech. This, in a large
measure explains why he was not allowed to
address the national convention for The Advancement 
of Colored People July 4th in
Chicago, Illinois.
No true American citizen, militant or
moderate, will disagree with the basic position 
of Dr. J. H. Jackson on the fundamentals
of civil rights when his position is really
known. It is his position that whatever it done
in the struggle for civil rights should always
be regulated by three standards:
1. The letter and spirit of the Federal 
Constitution.
2. The American philosophy of freedom. 

3. The Judeo - Christian view of hymen life and human relationship.
Dr. Jackson is a militant Christian who believes in a Christian militancy as an
approach to civil rights and all other problems of human relations both national
and international.
Because we desire the public to know something of Dr. Jackson's real
position, and because some of us who know the truth have joined together
for the purpose of correcting the false images created by giving to the public
the facts the case.
Our first effort is to give some excerpts from the great address delivered
in Cleveland, Ohio with some comments. The address may be divided roughly
into three sections, namely: (1.) The Work of Segregators. (2.) The Struggle of
the American Negro the Segregated. (3). The Task of the Nation.
Here the speaker sets forth with clarity, the position that has been taken
by those who believe in segregation. Said he:
These have skillfully manipulated the Federal Constitution for the past
one hundred years in order to defend their dogma of segregation end
to justify their sins of discrimination ... They have bolted and barred
the doors of many institutions of learning and have denied others access 
to the ballot box. In the name of democracy they have stolen the
liberty from others and hove forced one-tenth of the nation's population 
into a jim-crow class at second-rate citizens, and have blamed
them for their weaknesses, laughed at their shortcomings, and cursed
them when they failed. The oppressors have often taken the laws into
their own hands and have slaughtered others without repentance, and
some have taken public offices as governors of states, senators and
congressmen of the United States, and with uplifted hands have sworn
to defend the nation against enemies foreign and domestic, and to
uphold the principles of the Federal Constitution, but then they have
defied many of the verdicts of the Supreme Court and have lived in
contempt of the same.
Against these oppressors the lovers of freedom have fought, and are
still fighting a heroic battle and will continue this fight until the enemies
of freedom are subdued and all Americans are free.
In dealing with the struggle of the American Negro, the speaker pointed
out the facts of the Negro's patriotism.
In our feeble way we have striven to help the nation grow and to come to new
heights of power. With horny hands we have felled the trees, cleared the forest,
tilled the soil, and have had a share in the cultural pattern of American life. With
the nation we have suffered, and as soldiers our sons and daughters have gladly
died, and their sacred remains rest in the earthly bosom of many nations scattered 
around the world, and some have perished on mad oceans, and their invisible
particles have found their place in the watery niches of the Seven Sects'... We
still appreciate our flag and pledge our allegiance to this Republic, and are
dedicated to the highest ideals for which it stands ... We regret however, that
there remain many shameful spots on the nation's life and character. We must
confess that there are many promises unfulfilled, and the nation is still partly
free and partly bound with chains. As a race our rights are still restricted, and
the slaves have been emancipated only in part; and for one hundred years, the
ghost of the past still haunts us and the demon of injustice brandishes his sword,
and many unjust judges still occupy, the sacred bench. We have exechanged the
chains of slavery for the cursed ropes of segregation, and the weights of servitude 
for the Burdens of discrimination. After one hundred years, legally and
morally, the nation it in many respects Where it was in 1863. The Republic is
still divided between north and south. The great rebellion still goes on, and the
Civil War has not been completely closed. The cry for deliverance is heard in
every hamlet, village, and town in the United States of America . . .
This struggle has expressed itself in many and varied forms, but historically it
has never been a struggle of violence. The voice of this oppressed minority has
been the voice of request, of reason, persuasion, and pressure by protest...
These protest pressures have expressed themselves in the form of boycotts, acts
of civil disobedience, economic reprisals, and mass parades. The purposes of
these pressures are clear.
1. To secure immediate deliverance from the perils, penalties, and
shame of segregation.
2. To gain first-class citizenship in every aspect of American life.
3. To shook the conscience of America and goad the majority into
action against injustice.
4. To expose these tint within the United States to the world in order
that the whole nation might repent in shame and change her ways,
and enforce her laws, and respect all men, and grant to all citizens
first-class rights, first-class opportunities, and first-class responsibilities. 

However, we must admit there are some daggers in pressure by protect.
1. Since it is designed to change the minds of others for the better, if it
does not accomplish this end immediately, we may tend to become discouraged
and bitter.
2. Our limited economic resources will handicap us as a minority if this
type of battle is long and intensive.
3. If pressure by protest should remove all barriers and win for the American 
Negro all victories against their oppressors, they still must face the long and
arduous task of building their economic fortunes, getting better training in the
professional and scientific fields, and acquiring the type of preparation that is
most essential in this age of automation and under the spell of atomic science.
Here members of the Negro community seek to solve some of the problems they
face by producing some of the things they desire, and thus making them available 
not only for their own race, but for the community both colored and white.
They are led to organize capital, build stores, and produce those things that are
needed and acceptable and appreciated by first-class American citizens. Pressure
by production has some disadvantages:
1. It requires more time for victory than pressure by protest.
2. It does not satisfy at once the impatient spirit of the oppressed, and at
times it seems to move too slowly.
3. It is not as popular and is less glamorous than pressure by protest.
But there are some distinct advantages in pressure by production.
1. It need not wholly negate pressure by protest; that is, while we
build for ourselves and become a competitor with others, we may also
make known the acts of injustice and the sins of discrimination.
2. Pressure by production is designed to improve the lot both of the
oppressed and of the whole community. If the white community does not
accept or respond to pressure by production, the Negro community would
still be successful in lifting its own economical and cultural standard, thereby 
blessing themselves and the community in which they live.
3. If the desire is that we will not trade where we ore discriminated
against, production gives us a place to trade while we await a change in
policy in stores that discriminate and segregate. The truth is, one can wait
longer before going to such a store when one has access to a store where
none of these negatives are encountered or practiced. It is not enough to
give the order that we will not buy groceries and clothing where we are
discriminated against, we must provide a place where groceries, clothing
and shoes may be purchased, and such stores should be built by cooperative
effort so that they will attract the best people among all citizens of the
United States, and the service should be high class, the goods of the highest
caliber.
It is not too much to ask that on the level of production we build some of the
finest restaurants and cafes by cooperative effort, for any restaurant that is
clean and first-class, with food well-seasoned, well-seasoned, and well-cooked, will
attract hungry people in spite pf the color of their skin. Pressure by production
will not allow us to be satisfied just to eat in a nother's restaurant or to be employed, 
in a store owned by other people. Here we labor to change the relationship 
from customer to owner, to that of owner to owner; that is to say, in pressure 
by protest, we leave the store in the hands of our white friends and seek
only the chance and the right to spend our money there, in protest by production
we purchase a store and become a store owner as bur whit? friends, and welcome 
all races and peoples to become our customers. It is not economically sound
to invest our money, in such a way that we weaken ourselves as an economic
group and make economically stronger a segregating and discriminating group.
The day must come when in the field if business Negroes must compete with
their white neighbors as they now compete in sports, in the arts, and in the professions. 

In the scientific field we need not wait until another discovers the formula and
creates the potent and acquires the copyright. The book of knowledge is open,
the highway of wisdom is available, the temple of creativity is not locked; let
us go in, and with the raw materials available, increase the numbers of those
Who are the producers of new commodities and the creators of new implements;
for it is now a matter of record that where the science of medicine is known,
and the art of healing is possessed, men of all colors and classes will knock at
the door and seek admittance to the physicians' office if his skin is as black
as a thousand midnights. Learn well your song, and drink deeply from the
Pierian springs of inspiring music, and the world will bow at your feet and will
delight to sing of your greatness as it has already done for Roland Hayes of
yesteryears, and of Marion Anderson of a more recent date. To young Negroes
I say, let not the opportunity slip. Remember the possibilities of creativity in the
days of thy youth. Spend well the hours of research, study, and thought while
the years of maturity are not yet and the days of rush, conflict, and contest are
not upon you. Fix our eyes now upon the highest mental, moral, and spiritual
star, and go forward and upward by the sparkling light of the same. Open the
sails of your human potentials to the winds of fate and set them for soiling towards 
life's highest and most lofty goals, and make sure of possessing inner
motor power and fuel that will guarantee the continuity of the voyage though
the waves of discrimination be high, and the madcaps of prejudice are breaking
fast, and howling storms beat and tug at your ship with dreadful ferocious, and
merciless power. It is good to fall heir to accumulated wealth and to contend for
and get one's share in the legacies of the past, but it is much better to be armed
with the genius to invent, the ingenuity to produce, and the eternal spirit to
create; for in this context, a Thomas Edison finds an abiding light if the sun
goes down, and a Henry Ford releases the horseless chariots in the streets, and
a gifted Alexander Bell bridges the chasms of distance and puts all comers in
speaking range of their neighbors.
While we shall do all within our power to overcome every obstacle, remove
every hindering stone, and to come to the full stature of first-class citizenship
in this country, we will not forget however, to work with our many allies that are
now at hand in this great undertaking. Our allies are all American citizens-who
are dedicated to democracy, also the Federal Constitution, the courts of the
land, and every agency of government working for the full realization of the
American dream. The nation herself then has a task in this matter of completing
what has been so nobly begun ...
America must not ask the searchers for freedom to delay their efforts and to
dismiss the quest, for they could not stop if they tried. And the desire to achieve
freedom could not be dismissed if the notion willed it. This desire is as natural
as hunger, thirst, rest, and repose after the labors of the day.
We cannot shrink from our quest for freedom to ease the labors and the duties
of the state. The notion knows well that there can be no compromise at this point
between the citizens and the state. Tell all America freedom is a gift from God,
and its seeds are planted deeply in the souls of men by the Divine Hand, and
no human agency can pluck them out, no flood can wash them away, and no
power con destroy them. The decrees of masters cannot enthrall freedom. The
threats of demagogues will never change it. Biting dogs cannot gnaw it away.
Mobs will never lynch it. Swords cannot separate freedom from the delicate

tissues of the human soul. Charging guns have not eliminated freedom, and
high-powered rifles cannot snuff it out. America, America; prison cells cannot
contain freedom, dungeons will never destroy its fires have not consumed it. If will
never slumber in the graves of honored heroes, and hell with all of its power
will never put an end to it; for even if Crushed to the earth, freedom will in the
course of time rise again, for it is immortal in its nature, divine in its origin, and
eternal in its purpose.
The United States must not and cannot stand idly by and leave this contest in the
hands of the segregators and the segregated, and await the outcome of this
crucial battle between the oppressors and the oppressed. It is the nation's responsibility 
to assure and guarantee freedom to all of its citizens. Too long has
the nation delayed, too long has she postponed direct and immediate action, too
long has she left the struggle in the hands of others, and all too long has she
relegated the task of the achievement of civil rights to a secondary place in her
life and action. The nation must act and act now. If she doesn't act, the present
conflict will breed more confusion, and the present battle will end in a tragic
defeat for the nation. If America does not solve the problem of civil rights constructively, 
she will lose her moral leadership of the free world, and will deny
her own assumption of justice and liberty. The suffering of one part of the notion
reflects itself in the affliction and penalty of the whole.
If one-tenth of the nation's population must be kept in chains, then the other
nine-tenths must live and rear their children in the sight of, and in the fear of
encroaching poverty, and if part of a democracy must be afflicted by the pangs
of segregation and discrimination, then all must live near the dreadful camp of
ignorance and spend their days suffering from the same diseases with which
the port is inflicted. If the rich rob the poor, they must be taxed to guarantee
relief for their needy victims. Remember, the jailer himself is in a sense a prisoner
with his prisoners, and the hangman who springs the trap, himself dies a
thousand deaths...
There are too many isms seeking to invade our country and too many potential
enemies within for the government to take lightly the task of making first-class
citizens out of ail of her people .....
We must tell our congressmen, the governors of our several states, that the civil
rights struggle is not a racial struggle alone. It is the struggle for the very life
of the nation.
Tell Congress when a civil rights bill is before the United States Congress or any
similar bill that has to do with the nation's character and life, it should receive
priority because of what it means to the future of this great Republic.
Tell Congress there will be little use to concentrate on secondaries if the primary
things of the nation dire overlooked and lost. It is not wise for groups, nationalities, 
and races to strive for that which is peculiar to them when the nation's life
is at stake.
Tell the nation north and south it is a most serious blunder for Americans to
talk about the purity of race and the preservation of the Caucasian tradition
when the whole nation is threatened from within.
Tell Congress when the ship at sea is on fire and the bucket brigade is
necessary to extinguish the flames, any passenger is ill-informed or wrongly
directed if said passenger Seeks to protect his stateroom and to exclude himself 
from the joint struggle of passenger and crew to save the endangered
ship. All must work together to save the ship or all aboard, including the
captain, his crew, and passengers will go down together to a common
arave beneath a foaming sea.
Tell the United States Congress, tell the north, and tell the south that after
a hundred years the nation's life is in danger and the ship of state is on
fire. The chief executive, the Congress of the United States, and all Citizens
black and white must join the bucket brigade to put out the fires of prejudice, 
hatred, and inequality, or else all shall perish in the crucial defeat
of the nation ....
The liberty of no people con rest on the broken lives of others, and the
eternal security of a nation cannot be built on the bending bocks of slaves
or the broken bodies of the oppressed and the bleached bones of the
slaughtered. In the interest of herself, and for the preservation of her own
soul, our nation must solve the problem of civil rights and give to each
American citizen the portion of goods that rightfully belongs to him.
Our nation cannot forsake her highest ideals, nor forget her most lofty
dreams and pluck up the foundation stones of freedom and truth on which
our fathers builded. America must not suffer her sacred documents, promising 
human dignity and freedom, to be burned in a furnace of envy
and hate. She will not fail herself or mankind. She has travelled too far
on the road of democracy and freedom to ever turn back to the slime and
scum of human servitude and any form of chattel slavery ...
1. Many who heard it said it was one of the greatest addresses delivered
on civil rights since the days of Frederick Douglass.
2. "It was a great plea for the freedom movement within the framework
of the Federal Constitution and the American philosophy of freedom."
3. Some said, "This was more than an address, it was a directive and a
charter for action in the present and future struggle for civil rights."
4. Many said, "This is the voice of a Christian statesman who has faith in
himself, in his race, his notion, and his God."
5. "Seldom have I ever seen a vast audience so moved and insured."
When the speaker recounted his experience in crossing a picket line to
reach his pulpit to preach, a strange silence gripped the audience and many
wept. When he exhorted all ministers to be prepared for such an experience,
and whenever they face such, a picket line, they must cross it and walk heavily
as they cross, the vast audience took on, an atmosphere of action abd participation, 
and one aged minister was seen to stand and walk bock and
forth as if he
were crossing a picket line. The Governor of the State of Ohio sat in rapt attention 
throughout the whole, address and was visibly moved. At the close of the
address he was one of the first on his feet among thousands of others, He was
heard to say this was one of the greatest addresses to which he had ever listened.
In Dr. J. H. Jackson not only do five million National Baptist have a
great champion, but the Negro race and American democracy have a trusted
spokesman. He never separates the struggle of the Negro race from the American 
struggle. And if there are those who have attached themselves to the civil
rights movement with ulterior motives and for the purpose of using the struggle
to wage a secret bottle against the nation and against religion, said persons
must always regard patriotic Americans, be they colored or white, as their
serious opponents. Dr. J. H. Jackson believes that his race hot the ability to
achieve all of its high goals by working in harmony with the Federal Constitution 
and in the American way of life. His unquestioned patriotism renders him
a serious opponent to the enemies of the nation foreign and domestic, and his
unifying faith in God renders him an unrelenting champion of the Christian
religion.
The Unanimous voice of five thousand official delegates in the adoption of
all measures presented, along with the unanimous reelection of the president for
another term, was a testimony of the faith of the people in his leadership, and
undisputed evidence that Dr. J. H. Jackson it not alone in advocating a Christian
militancy in the present crises.

Pressure By Production
It was known that Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist
Convention, U.S.A., Inc., would deliver his annual address at 11:00 a.m. There
was the usual keen interest and anticipation of what would be said. At 10:00
a.m. streets leading to the auditorium were jammed, traffic tied up for blocks,
as thousands hurried to set seats. They were rushing to hear one of the great
religious statesmen of our time, a man who
speaks with courage and conviction. Not only
his friends, but his enemies, regard him at a
leader with rare gifts and ability. He has
combined profound thought with deep love of
his race and his nation with a vital faith in
God. Those who fear his power of persuasion
seek to hinder his speech. This, in a large
measure explains why he was not allowed to
address the national convention for The Advancement 
of Colored People July 4th in
Chicago, Illinois.
No true American citizen, militant or
moderate, will disagree with the basic position 
of Dr. J. H. Jackson on the fundamentals
of civil rights when his position is really
known. It is his position that whatever it done
in the struggle for civil rights should always
be regulated by three standards:
1. The letter and spirit of the Federal 
Constitution.
2. The American philosophy of freedom. 

3. The Judeo - Christian view of hymen life and human relationship.
Dr. Jackson is a militant Christian who believes in a Christian militancy as an
approach to civil rights and all other problems of human relations both national
and international.
Because we desire the public to know something of Dr. Jackson's real
position, and because some of us who know the truth have joined together
for the purpose of correcting the false images created by giving to the public
the facts the case.
Our first effort is to give some excerpts from the great address delivered
in Cleveland, Ohio with some comments. The address may be divided roughly
into three sections, namely: (1.) The Work of Segregators. (2.) The Struggle of
the American Negro the Segregated. (3). The Task of the Nation.
Here the speaker sets forth with clarity, the position that has been taken
by those who believe in segregation. Said he:
These have skillfully manipulated the Federal Constitution for the past
one hundred years in order to defend their dogma of segregation end
to justify their sins of discrimination ... They have bolted and barred
the doors of many institutions of learning and have denied others access 
to the ballot box. In the name of democracy they have stolen the
liberty from others and hove forced one-tenth of the nation's population 
into a jim-crow class at second-rate citizens, and have blamed
them for their weaknesses, laughed at their shortcomings, and cursed
them when they failed. The oppressors have often taken the laws into
their own hands and have slaughtered others without repentance, and
some have taken public offices as governors of states, senators and
congressmen of the United States, and with uplifted hands have sworn
to defend the nation against enemies foreign and domestic, and to
uphold the principles of the Federal Constitution, but then they have
defied many of the verdicts of the Supreme Court and have lived in
contempt of the same.
Against these oppressors the lovers of freedom have fought, and are
still fighting a heroic battle and will continue this fight until the enemies
of freedom are subdued and all Americans are free.
In dealing with the struggle of the American Negro, the speaker pointed
out the facts of the Negro's patriotism.
In our feeble way we have striven to help the nation grow and to come to new
heights of power. With horny hands we have felled the trees, cleared the forest,
tilled the soil, and have had a share in the cultural pattern of American life. With
the nation we have suffered, and as soldiers our sons and daughters have gladly
died, and their sacred remains rest in the earthly bosom of many nations scattered 
around the world, and some have perished on mad oceans, and their invisible
particles have found their place in the watery niches of the Seven Sects'... We
still appreciate our flag and pledge our allegiance to this Republic, and are
dedicated to the highest ideals for which it stands ... We regret however, that
there remain many shameful spots on the nation's life and character. We must
confess that there are many promises unfulfilled, and the nation is still partly
free and partly bound with chains. As a race our rights are still restricted, and
the slaves have been emancipated only in part; and for one hundred years, the
ghost of the past still haunts us and the demon of injustice brandishes his sword,
and many unjust judges still occupy, the sacred bench. We have exechanged the
chains of slavery for the cursed ropes of segregation, and the weights of servitude 
for the Burdens of discrimination. After one hundred years, legally and
morally, the nation it in many respects Where it was in 1863. The Republic is
still divided between north and south. The great rebellion still goes on, and the
Civil War has not been completely closed. The cry for deliverance is heard in
every hamlet, village, and town in the United States of America . . .
This struggle has expressed itself in many and varied forms, but historically it
has never been a struggle of violence. The voice of this oppressed minority has
been the voice of request, of reason, persuasion, and pressure by protest...
These protest pressures have expressed themselves in the form of boycotts, acts
of civil disobedience, economic reprisals, and mass parades. The purposes of
these pressures are clear.
1. To secure immediate deliverance from the perils, penalties, and
shame of segregation.
2. To gain first-class citizenship in every aspect of American life.
3. To shook the conscience of America and goad the majority into
action against injustice.
4. To expose these tint within the United States to the world in order
that the whole nation might repent in shame and change her ways,
and enforce her laws, and respect all men, and grant to all citizens
first-class rights, first-class opportunities, and first-class responsibilities. 

However, we must admit there are some daggers in pressure by protect.
1. Since it is designed to change the minds of others for the better, if it
does not accomplish this end immediately, we may tend to become discouraged
and bitter.
2. Our limited economic resources will handicap us as a minority if this
type of battle is long and intensive.
3. If pressure by protest should remove all barriers and win for the American 
Negro all victories against their oppressors, they still must face the long and
arduous task of building their economic fortunes, getting better training in the
professional and scientific fields, and acquiring the type of preparation that is
most essential in this age of automation and under the spell of atomic science.
Here members of the Negro community seek to solve some of the problems they
face by producing some of the things they desire, and thus making them available 
not only for their own race, but for the community both colored and white.
They are led to organize capital, build stores, and produce those things that are
needed and acceptable and appreciated by first-class American citizens. Pressure
by production has some disadvantages:
1. It requires more time for victory than pressure by protest.
2. It does not satisfy at once the impatient spirit of the oppressed, and at
times it seems to move too slowly.
3. It is not as popular and is less glamorous than pressure by protest.
But there are some distinct advantages in pressure by production.
1. It need not wholly negate pressure by protest; that is, while we
build for ourselves and become a competitor with others, we may also
make known the acts of injustice and the sins of discrimination.
2. Pressure by production is designed to improve the lot both of the
oppressed and of the whole community. If the white community does not
accept or respond to pressure by production, the Negro community would
still be successful in lifting its own economical and cultural standard, thereby 
blessing themselves and the community in which they live.
3. If the desire is that we will not trade where we ore discriminated
against, production gives us a place to trade while we await a change in
policy in stores that discriminate and segregate. The truth is, one can wait
longer before going to such a store when one has access to a store where
none of these negatives are encountered or practiced. It is not enough to
give the order that we will not buy groceries and clothing where we are
discriminated against, we must provide a place where groceries, clothing
and shoes may be purchased, and such stores should be built by cooperative
effort so that they will attract the best people among all citizens of the
United States, and the service should be high class, the goods of the highest
caliber.
It is not too much to ask that on the level of production we build some of the
finest restaurants and cafes by cooperative effort, for any restaurant that is
clean and first-class, with food well-seasoned, well-seasoned, and well-cooked, will
attract hungry people in spite pf the color of their skin. Pressure by production
will not allow us to be satisfied just to eat in a nother's restaurant or to be employed, 
in a store owned by other people. Here we labor to change the relationship 
from customer to owner, to that of owner to owner; that is to say, in pressure 
by protest, we leave the store in the hands of our white friends and seek
only the chance and the right to spend our money there, in protest by production
we purchase a store and become a store owner as bur whit? friends, and welcome 
all races and peoples to become our customers. It is not economically sound
to invest our money, in such a way that we weaken ourselves as an economic
group and make economically stronger a segregating and discriminating group.
The day must come when in the field if business Negroes must compete with
their white neighbors as they now compete in sports, in the arts, and in the professions. 

In the scientific field we need not wait until another discovers the formula and
creates the potent and acquires the copyright. The book of knowledge is open,
the highway of wisdom is available, the temple of creativity is not locked; let
us go in, and with the raw materials available, increase the numbers of those
Who are the producers of new commodities and the creators of new implements;
for it is now a matter of record that where the science of medicine is known,
and the art of healing is possessed, men of all colors and classes will knock at
the door and seek admittance to the physicians' office if his skin is as black
as a thousand midnights. Learn well your song, and drink deeply from the
Pierian springs of inspiring music, and the world will bow at your feet and will
delight to sing of your greatness as it has already done for Roland Hayes of
yesteryears, and of Marion Anderson of a more recent date. To young Negroes
I say, let not the opportunity slip. Remember the possibilities of creativity in the
days of thy youth. Spend well the hours of research, study, and thought while
the years of maturity are not yet and the days of rush, conflict, and contest are
not upon you. Fix our eyes now upon the highest mental, moral, and spiritual
star, and go forward and upward by the sparkling light of the same. Open the
sails of your human potentials to the winds of fate and set them for soiling towards 
life's highest and most lofty goals, and make sure of possessing inner
motor power and fuel that will guarantee the continuity of the voyage though
the waves of discrimination be high, and the madcaps of prejudice are breaking
fast, and howling storms beat and tug at your ship with dreadful ferocious, and
merciless power. It is good to fall heir to accumulated wealth and to contend for
and get one's share in the legacies of the past, but it is much better to be armed
with the genius to invent, the ingenuity to produce, and the eternal spirit to
create; for in this context, a Thomas Edison finds an abiding light if the sun
goes down, and a Henry Ford releases the horseless chariots in the streets, and
a gifted Alexander Bell bridges the chasms of distance and puts all comers in
speaking range of their neighbors.
While we shall do all within our power to overcome every obstacle, remove
every hindering stone, and to come to the full stature of first-class citizenship
in this country, we will not forget however, to work with our many allies that are
now at hand in this great undertaking. Our allies are all American citizens-who
are dedicated to democracy, also the Federal Constitution, the courts of the
land, and every agency of government working for the full realization of the
American dream. The nation herself then has a task in this matter of completing
what has been so nobly begun ...
America must not ask the searchers for freedom to delay their efforts and to
dismiss the quest, for they could not stop if they tried. And the desire to achieve
freedom could not be dismissed if the notion willed it. This desire is as natural
as hunger, thirst, rest, and repose after the labors of the day.
We cannot shrink from our quest for freedom to ease the labors and the duties
of the state. The notion knows well that there can be no compromise at this point
between the citizens and the state. Tell all America freedom is a gift from God,
and its seeds are planted deeply in the souls of men by the Divine Hand, and
no human agency can pluck them out, no flood can wash them away, and no
power con destroy them. The decrees of masters cannot enthrall freedom. The
threats of demagogues will never change it. Biting dogs cannot gnaw it away.
Mobs will never lynch it. Swords cannot separate freedom from the delicate

tissues of the human soul. Charging guns have not eliminated freedom, and
high-powered rifles cannot snuff it out. America, America; prison cells cannot
contain freedom, dungeons will never destroy its fires have not consumed it. If will
never slumber in the graves of honored heroes, and hell with all of its power
will never put an end to it; for even if Crushed to the earth, freedom will in the
course of time rise again, for it is immortal in its nature, divine in its origin, and
eternal in its purpose.
The United States must not and cannot stand idly by and leave this contest in the
hands of the segregators and the segregated, and await the outcome of this
crucial battle between the oppressors and the oppressed. It is the nation's responsibility 
to assure and guarantee freedom to all of its citizens. Too long has
the nation delayed, too long has she postponed direct and immediate action, too
long has she left the struggle in the hands of others, and all too long has she
relegated the task of the achievement of civil rights to a secondary place in her
life and action. The nation must act and act now. If she doesn't act, the present
conflict will breed more confusion, and the present battle will end in a tragic
defeat for the nation. If America does not solve the problem of civil rights constructively, 
she will lose her moral leadership of the free world, and will deny
her own assumption of justice and liberty. The suffering of one part of the notion
reflects itself in the affliction and penalty of the whole.
If one-tenth of the nation's population must be kept in chains, then the other
nine-tenths must live and rear their children in the sight of, and in the fear of
encroaching poverty, and if part of a democracy must be afflicted by the pangs
of segregation and discrimination, then all must live near the dreadful camp of
ignorance and spend their days suffering from the same diseases with which
the port is inflicted. If the rich rob the poor, they must be taxed to guarantee
relief for their needy victims. Remember, the jailer himself is in a sense a prisoner
with his prisoners, and the hangman who springs the trap, himself dies a
thousand deaths...
There are too many isms seeking to invade our country and too many potential
enemies within for the government to take lightly the task of making first-class
citizens out of ail of her people .....
We must tell our congressmen, the governors of our several states, that the civil
rights struggle is not a racial struggle alone. It is the struggle for the very life
of the nation.
Tell Congress when a civil rights bill is before the United States Congress or any
similar bill that has to do with the nation's character and life, it should receive
priority because of what it means to the future of this great Republic.
Tell Congress there will be little use to concentrate on secondaries if the primary
things of the nation dire overlooked and lost. It is not wise for groups, nationalities, 
and races to strive for that which is peculiar to them when the nation's life
is at stake.
Tell the nation north and south it is a most serious blunder for Americans to
talk about the purity of race and the preservation of the Caucasian tradition
when the whole nation is threatened from within.
Tell Congress when the ship at sea is on fire and the bucket brigade is
necessary to extinguish the flames, any passenger is ill-informed or wrongly
directed if said passenger Seeks to protect his stateroom and to exclude himself 
from the joint struggle of passenger and crew to save the endangered
ship. All must work together to save the ship or all aboard, including the
captain, his crew, and passengers will go down together to a common
arave beneath a foaming sea.
Tell the United States Congress, tell the north, and tell the south that after
a hundred years the nation's life is in danger and the ship of state is on
fire. The chief executive, the Congress of the United States, and all Citizens
black and white must join the bucket brigade to put out the fires of prejudice, 
hatred, and inequality, or else all shall perish in the crucial defeat
of the nation ....
The liberty of no people con rest on the broken lives of others, and the
eternal security of a nation cannot be built on the bending bocks of slaves
or the broken bodies of the oppressed and the bleached bones of the
slaughtered. In the interest of herself, and for the preservation of her own
soul, our nation must solve the problem of civil rights and give to each
American citizen the portion of goods that rightfully belongs to him.
Our nation cannot forsake her highest ideals, nor forget her most lofty
dreams and pluck up the foundation stones of freedom and truth on which
our fathers builded. America must not suffer her sacred documents, promising 
human dignity and freedom, to be burned in a furnace of envy
and hate. She will not fail herself or mankind. She has travelled too far
on the road of democracy and freedom to ever turn back to the slime and
scum of human servitude and any form of chattel slavery ...
1. Many who heard it said it was one of the greatest addresses delivered
on civil rights since the days of Frederick Douglass.
2. "It was a great plea for the freedom movement within the framework
of the Federal Constitution and the American philosophy of freedom."
3. Some said, "This was more than an address, it was a directive and a
charter for action in the present and future struggle for civil rights."
4. Many said, "This is the voice of a Christian statesman who has faith in
himself, in his race, his notion, and his God."
5. "Seldom have I ever seen a vast audience so moved and insured."
When the speaker recounted his experience in crossing a picket line to
reach his pulpit to preach, a strange silence gripped the audience and many
wept. When he exhorted all ministers to be prepared for such an experience,
and whenever they face such, a picket line, they must cross it and walk heavily
as they cross, the vast audience took on, an atmosphere of action abd participation, 
and one aged minister was seen to stand and walk bock and
forth as if he
were crossing a picket line. The Governor of the State of Ohio sat in rapt attention 
throughout the whole, address and was visibly moved. At the close of the
address he was one of the first on his feet among thousands of others, He was
heard to say this was one of the greatest addresses to which he had ever listened.
In Dr. J. H. Jackson not only do five million National Baptist have a
great champion, but the Negro race and American democracy have a trusted
spokesman. He never separates the struggle of the Negro race from the American 
struggle. And if there are those who have attached themselves to the civil
rights movement with ulterior motives and for the purpose of using the struggle
to wage a secret bottle against the nation and against religion, said persons
must always regard patriotic Americans, be they colored or white, as their
serious opponents. Dr. J. H. Jackson believes that his race hot the ability to
achieve all of its high goals by working in harmony with the Federal Constitution 
and in the American way of life. His unquestioned patriotism renders him
a serious opponent to the enemies of the nation foreign and domestic, and his
unifying faith in God renders him an unrelenting champion of the Christian
religion.
The Unanimous voice of five thousand official delegates in the adoption of
all measures presented, along with the unanimous reelection of the president for
another term, was a testimony of the faith of the people in his leadership, and
undisputed evidence that Dr. J. H. Jackson it not alone in advocating a Christian
militancy in the present crises.

The Inescapable Urge For Freedom
It was known that Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist
Convention, U.S.A., Inc., would deliver his annual address at 11:00 a.m. There
was the usual keen interest and anticipation of what would be said. At 10:00
a.m. streets leading to the auditorium were jammed, traffic tied up for blocks,
as thousands hurried to set seats. They were rushing to hear one of the great
religious statesmen of our time, a man who
speaks with courage and conviction. Not only
his friends, but his enemies, regard him at a
leader with rare gifts and ability. He has
combined profound thought with deep love of
his race and his nation with a vital faith in
God. Those who fear his power of persuasion
seek to hinder his speech. This, in a large
measure explains why he was not allowed to
address the national convention for The Advancement 
of Colored People July 4th in
Chicago, Illinois.
No true American citizen, militant or
moderate, will disagree with the basic position 
of Dr. J. H. Jackson on the fundamentals
of civil rights when his position is really
known. It is his position that whatever it done
in the struggle for civil rights should always
be regulated by three standards:
1. The letter and spirit of the Federal 
Constitution.
2. The American philosophy of freedom. 

3. The Judeo - Christian view of hymen life and human relationship.
Dr. Jackson is a militant Christian who believes in a Christian militancy as an
approach to civil rights and all other problems of human relations both national
and international.
Because we desire the public to know something of Dr. Jackson's real
position, and because some of us who know the truth have joined together
for the purpose of correcting the false images created by giving to the public
the facts the case.
Our first effort is to give some excerpts from the great address delivered
in Cleveland, Ohio with some comments. The address may be divided roughly
into three sections, namely: (1.) The Work of Segregators. (2.) The Struggle of
the American Negro the Segregated. (3). The Task of the Nation.
Here the speaker sets forth with clarity, the position that has been taken
by those who believe in segregation. Said he:
These have skillfully manipulated the Federal Constitution for the past
one hundred years in order to defend their dogma of segregation end
to justify their sins of discrimination ... They have bolted and barred
the doors of many institutions of learning and have denied others access 
to the ballot box. In the name of democracy they have stolen the
liberty from others and hove forced one-tenth of the nation's population 
into a jim-crow class at second-rate citizens, and have blamed
them for their weaknesses, laughed at their shortcomings, and cursed
them when they failed. The oppressors have often taken the laws into
their own hands and have slaughtered others without repentance, and
some have taken public offices as governors of states, senators and
congressmen of the United States, and with uplifted hands have sworn
to defend the nation against enemies foreign and domestic, and to
uphold the principles of the Federal Constitution, but then they have
defied many of the verdicts of the Supreme Court and have lived in
contempt of the same.
Against these oppressors the lovers of freedom have fought, and are
still fighting a heroic battle and will continue this fight until the enemies
of freedom are subdued and all Americans are free.
In dealing with the struggle of the American Negro, the speaker pointed
out the facts of the Negro's patriotism.
In our feeble way we have striven to help the nation grow and to come to new
heights of power. With horny hands we have felled the trees, cleared the forest,
tilled the soil, and have had a share in the cultural pattern of American life. With
the nation we have suffered, and as soldiers our sons and daughters have gladly
died, and their sacred remains rest in the earthly bosom of many nations scattered 
around the world, and some have perished on mad oceans, and their invisible
particles have found their place in the watery niches of the Seven Sects'... We
still appreciate our flag and pledge our allegiance to this Republic, and are
dedicated to the highest ideals for which it stands ... We regret however, that
there remain many shameful spots on the nation's life and character. We must
confess that there are many promises unfulfilled, and the nation is still partly
free and partly bound with chains. As a race our rights are still restricted, and
the slaves have been emancipated only in part; and for one hundred years, the
ghost of the past still haunts us and the demon of injustice brandishes his sword,
and many unjust judges still occupy, the sacred bench. We have exechanged the
chains of slavery for the cursed ropes of segregation, and the weights of servitude 
for the Burdens of discrimination. After one hundred years, legally and
morally, the nation it in many respects Where it was in 1863. The Republic is
still divided between north and south. The great rebellion still goes on, and the
Civil War has not been completely closed. The cry for deliverance is heard in
every hamlet, village, and town in the United States of America . . .
This struggle has expressed itself in many and varied forms, but historically it
has never been a struggle of violence. The voice of this oppressed minority has
been the voice of request, of reason, persuasion, and pressure by protest...
These protest pressures have expressed themselves in the form of boycotts, acts
of civil disobedience, economic reprisals, and mass parades. The purposes of
these pressures are clear.
1. To secure immediate deliverance from the perils, penalties, and
shame of segregation.
2. To gain first-class citizenship in every aspect of American life.
3. To shook the conscience of America and goad the majority into
action against injustice.
4. To expose these tint within the United States to the world in order
that the whole nation might repent in shame and change her ways,
and enforce her laws, and respect all men, and grant to all citizens
first-class rights, first-class opportunities, and first-class responsibilities. 

However, we must admit there are some daggers in pressure by protect.
1. Since it is designed to change the minds of others for the better, if it
does not accomplish this end immediately, we may tend to become discouraged
and bitter.
2. Our limited economic resources will handicap us as a minority if this
type of battle is long and intensive.
3. If pressure by protest should remove all barriers and win for the American 
Negro all victories against their oppressors, they still must face the long and
arduous task of building their economic fortunes, getting better training in the
professional and scientific fields, and acquiring the type of preparation that is
most essential in this age of automation and under the spell of atomic science.
Here members of the Negro community seek to solve some of the problems they
face by producing some of the things they desire, and thus making them available 
not only for their own race, but for the community both colored and white.
They are led to organize capital, build stores, and produce those things that are
needed and acceptable and appreciated by first-class American citizens. Pressure
by production has some disadvantages:
1. It requires more time for victory than pressure by protest.
2. It does not satisfy at once the impatient spirit of the oppressed, and at
times it seems to move too slowly.
3. It is not as popular and is less glamorous than pressure by protest.
But there are some distinct advantages in pressure by production.
1. It need not wholly negate pressure by protest; that is, while we
build for ourselves and become a competitor with others, we may also
make known the acts of injustice and the sins of discrimination.
2. Pressure by production is designed to improve the lot both of the
oppressed and of the whole community. If the white community does not
accept or respond to pressure by production, the Negro community would
still be successful in lifting its own economical and cultural standard, thereby 
blessing themselves and the community in which they live.
3. If the desire is that we will not trade where we ore discriminated
against, production gives us a place to trade while we await a change in
policy in stores that discriminate and segregate. The truth is, one can wait
longer before going to such a store when one has access to a store where
none of these negatives are encountered or practiced. It is not enough to
give the order that we will not buy groceries and clothing where we are
discriminated against, we must provide a place where groceries, clothing
and shoes may be purchased, and such stores should be built by cooperative
effort so that they will attract the best people among all citizens of the
United States, and the service should be high class, the goods of the highest
caliber.
It is not too much to ask that on the level of production we build some of the
finest restaurants and cafes by cooperative effort, for any restaurant that is
clean and first-class, with food well-seasoned, well-seasoned, and well-cooked, will
attract hungry people in spite pf the color of their skin. Pressure by production
will not allow us to be satisfied just to eat in a nother's restaurant or to be employed, 
in a store owned by other people. Here we labor to change the relationship 
from customer to owner, to that of owner to owner; that is to say, in pressure 
by protest, we leave the store in the hands of our white friends and seek
only the chance and the right to spend our money there, in protest by production
we purchase a store and become a store owner as bur whit? friends, and welcome 
all races and peoples to become our customers. It is not economically sound
to invest our money, in such a way that we weaken ourselves as an economic
group and make economically stronger a segregating and discriminating group.
The day must come when in the field if business Negroes must compete with
their white neighbors as they now compete in sports, in the arts, and in the professions. 

In the scientific field we need not wait until another discovers the formula and
creates the potent and acquires the copyright. The book of knowledge is open,
the highway of wisdom is available, the temple of creativity is not locked; let
us go in, and with the raw materials available, increase the numbers of those
Who are the producers of new commodities and the creators of new implements;
for it is now a matter of record that where the science of medicine is known,
and the art of healing is possessed, men of all colors and classes will knock at
the door and seek admittance to the physicians' office if his skin is as black
as a thousand midnights. Learn well your song, and drink deeply from the
Pierian springs of inspiring music, and the world will bow at your feet and will
delight to sing of your greatness as it has already done for Roland Hayes of
yesteryears, and of Marion Anderson of a more recent date. To young Negroes
I say, let not the opportunity slip. Remember the possibilities of creativity in the
days of thy youth. Spend well the hours of research, study, and thought while
the years of maturity are not yet and the days of rush, conflict, and contest are
not upon you. Fix our eyes now upon the highest mental, moral, and spiritual
star, and go forward and upward by the sparkling light of the same. Open the
sails of your human potentials to the winds of fate and set them for soiling towards 
life's highest and most lofty goals, and make sure of possessing inner
motor power and fuel that will guarantee the continuity of the voyage though
the waves of discrimination be high, and the madcaps of prejudice are breaking
fast, and howling storms beat and tug at your ship with dreadful ferocious, and
merciless power. It is good to fall heir to accumulated wealth and to contend for
and get one's share in the legacies of the past, but it is much better to be armed
with the genius to invent, the ingenuity to produce, and the eternal spirit to
create; for in this context, a Thomas Edison finds an abiding light if the sun
goes down, and a Henry Ford releases the horseless chariots in the streets, and
a gifted Alexander Bell bridges the chasms of distance and puts all comers in
speaking range of their neighbors.
While we shall do all within our power to overcome every obstacle, remove
every hindering stone, and to come to the full stature of first-class citizenship
in this country, we will not forget however, to work with our many allies that are
now at hand in this great undertaking. Our allies are all American citizens-who
are dedicated to democracy, also the Federal Constitution, the courts of the
land, and every agency of government working for the full realization of the
American dream. The nation herself then has a task in this matter of completing
what has been so nobly begun ...
America must not ask the searchers for freedom to delay their efforts and to
dismiss the quest, for they could not stop if they tried. And the desire to achieve
freedom could not be dismissed if the notion willed it. This desire is as natural
as hunger, thirst, rest, and repose after the labors of the day.
We cannot shrink from our quest for freedom to ease the labors and the duties
of the state. The notion knows well that there can be no compromise at this point
between the citizens and the state. Tell all America freedom is a gift from God,
and its seeds are planted deeply in the souls of men by the Divine Hand, and
no human agency can pluck them out, no flood can wash them away, and no
power con destroy them. The decrees of masters cannot enthrall freedom. The
threats of demagogues will never change it. Biting dogs cannot gnaw it away.
Mobs will never lynch it. Swords cannot separate freedom from the delicate

tissues of the human soul. Charging guns have not eliminated freedom, and
high-powered rifles cannot snuff it out. America, America; prison cells cannot
contain freedom, dungeons will never destroy its fires have not consumed it. If will
never slumber in the graves of honored heroes, and hell with all of its power
will never put an end to it; for even if Crushed to the earth, freedom will in the
course of time rise again, for it is immortal in its nature, divine in its origin, and
eternal in its purpose.
The United States must not and cannot stand idly by and leave this contest in the
hands of the segregators and the segregated, and await the outcome of this
crucial battle between the oppressors and the oppressed. It is the nation's responsibility 
to assure and guarantee freedom to all of its citizens. Too long has
the nation delayed, too long has she postponed direct and immediate action, too
long has she left the struggle in the hands of others, and all too long has she
relegated the task of the achievement of civil rights to a secondary place in her
life and action. The nation must act and act now. If she doesn't act, the present
conflict will breed more confusion, and the present battle will end in a tragic
defeat for the nation. If America does not solve the problem of civil rights constructively, 
she will lose her moral leadership of the free world, and will deny
her own assumption of justice and liberty. The suffering of one part of the notion
reflects itself in the affliction and penalty of the whole.
If one-tenth of the nation's population must be kept in chains, then the other
nine-tenths must live and rear their children in the sight of, and in the fear of
encroaching poverty, and if part of a democracy must be afflicted by the pangs
of segregation and discrimination, then all must live near the dreadful camp of
ignorance and spend their days suffering from the same diseases with which
the port is inflicted. If the rich rob the poor, they must be taxed to guarantee
relief for their needy victims. Remember, the jailer himself is in a sense a prisoner
with his prisoners, and the hangman who springs the trap, himself dies a
thousand deaths...
There are too many isms seeking to invade our country and too many potential
enemies within for the government to take lightly the task of making first-class
citizens out of ail of her people .....
We must tell our congressmen, the governors of our several states, that the civil
rights struggle is not a racial struggle alone. It is the struggle for the very life
of the nation.
Tell Congress when a civil rights bill is before the United States Congress or any
similar bill that has to do with the nation's character and life, it should receive
priority because of what it means to the future of this great Republic.
Tell Congress there will be little use to concentrate on secondaries if the primary
things of the nation dire overlooked and lost. It is not wise for groups, nationalities, 
and races to strive for that which is peculiar to them when the nation's life
is at stake.
Tell the nation north and south it is a most serious blunder for Americans to
talk about the purity of race and the preservation of the Caucasian tradition
when the whole nation is threatened from within.
Tell Congress when the ship at sea is on fire and the bucket brigade is
necessary to extinguish the flames, any passenger is ill-informed or wrongly
directed if said passenger Seeks to protect his stateroom and to exclude himself 
from the joint struggle of passenger and crew to save the endangered
ship. All must work together to save the ship or all aboard, including the
captain, his crew, and passengers will go down together to a common
arave beneath a foaming sea.
Tell the United States Congress, tell the north, and tell the south that after
a hundred years the nation's life is in danger and the ship of state is on
fire. The chief executive, the Congress of the United States, and all Citizens
black and white must join the bucket brigade to put out the fires of prejudice, 
hatred, and inequality, or else all shall perish in the crucial defeat
of the nation ....
The liberty of no people con rest on the broken lives of others, and the
eternal security of a nation cannot be built on the bending bocks of slaves
or the broken bodies of the oppressed and the bleached bones of the
slaughtered. In the interest of herself, and for the preservation of her own
soul, our nation must solve the problem of civil rights and give to each
American citizen the portion of goods that rightfully belongs to him.
Our nation cannot forsake her highest ideals, nor forget her most lofty
dreams and pluck up the foundation stones of freedom and truth on which
our fathers builded. America must not suffer her sacred documents, promising 
human dignity and freedom, to be burned in a furnace of envy
and hate. She will not fail herself or mankind. She has travelled too far
on the road of democracy and freedom to ever turn back to the slime and
scum of human servitude and any form of chattel slavery ...
1. Many who heard it said it was one of the greatest addresses delivered
on civil rights since the days of Frederick Douglass.
2. "It was a great plea for the freedom movement within the framework
of the Federal Constitution and the American philosophy of freedom."
3. Some said, "This was more than an address, it was a directive and a
charter for action in the present and future struggle for civil rights."
4. Many said, "This is the voice of a Christian statesman who has faith in
himself, in his race, his notion, and his God."
5. "Seldom have I ever seen a vast audience so moved and insured."
When the speaker recounted his experience in crossing a picket line to
reach his pulpit to preach, a strange silence gripped the audience and many
wept. When he exhorted all ministers to be prepared for such an experience,
and whenever they face such, a picket line, they must cross it and walk heavily
as they cross, the vast audience took on, an atmosphere of action abd participation, 
and one aged minister was seen to stand and walk bock and
forth as if he
were crossing a picket line. The Governor of the State of Ohio sat in rapt attention 
throughout the whole, address and was visibly moved. At the close of the
address he was one of the first on his feet among thousands of others, He was
heard to say this was one of the greatest addresses to which he had ever listened.
In Dr. J. H. Jackson not only do five million National Baptist have a
great champion, but the Negro race and American democracy have a trusted
spokesman. He never separates the struggle of the Negro race from the American 
struggle. And if there are those who have attached themselves to the civil
rights movement with ulterior motives and for the purpose of using the struggle
to wage a secret bottle against the nation and against religion, said persons
must always regard patriotic Americans, be they colored or white, as their
serious opponents. Dr. J. H. Jackson believes that his race hot the ability to
achieve all of its high goals by working in harmony with the Federal Constitution 
and in the American way of life. His unquestioned patriotism renders him
a serious opponent to the enemies of the nation foreign and domestic, and his
unifying faith in God renders him an unrelenting champion of the Christian
religion.
The Unanimous voice of five thousand official delegates in the adoption of
all measures presented, along with the unanimous reelection of the president for
another term, was a testimony of the faith of the people in his leadership, and
undisputed evidence that Dr. J. H. Jackson it not alone in advocating a Christian
militancy in the present crises.

III. The Task Of The Nation
It was known that Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist
Convention, U.S.A., Inc., would deliver his annual address at 11:00 a.m. There
was the usual keen interest and anticipation of what would be said. At 10:00
a.m. streets leading to the auditorium were jammed, traffic tied up for blocks,
as thousands hurried to set seats. They were rushing to hear one of the great
religious statesmen of our time, a man who
speaks with courage and conviction. Not only
his friends, but his enemies, regard him at a
leader with rare gifts and ability. He has
combined profound thought with deep love of
his race and his nation with a vital faith in
God. Those who fear his power of persuasion
seek to hinder his speech. This, in a large
measure explains why he was not allowed to
address the national convention for The Advancement 
of Colored People July 4th in
Chicago, Illinois.
No true American citizen, militant or
moderate, will disagree with the basic position 
of Dr. J. H. Jackson on the fundamentals
of civil rights when his position is really
known. It is his position that whatever it done
in the struggle for civil rights should always
be regulated by three standards:
1. The letter and spirit of the Federal 
Constitution.
2. The American philosophy of freedom. 

3. The Judeo - Christian view of hymen life and human relationship.
Dr. Jackson is a militant Christian who believes in a Christian militancy as an
approach to civil rights and all other problems of human relations both national
and international.
Because we desire the public to know something of Dr. Jackson's real
position, and because some of us who know the truth have joined together
for the purpose of correcting the false images created by giving to the public
the facts the case.
Our first effort is to give some excerpts from the great address delivered
in Cleveland, Ohio with some comments. The address may be divided roughly
into three sections, namely: (1.) The Work of Segregators. (2.) The Struggle of
the American Negro the Segregated. (3). The Task of the Nation.
Here the speaker sets forth with clarity, the position that has been taken
by those who believe in segregation. Said he:
These have skillfully manipulated the Federal Constitution for the past
one hundred years in order to defend their dogma of segregation end
to justify their sins of discrimination ... They have bolted and barred
the doors of many institutions of learning and have denied others access 
to the ballot box. In the name of democracy they have stolen the
liberty from others and hove forced one-tenth of the nation's population 
into a jim-crow class at second-rate citizens, and have blamed
them for their weaknesses, laughed at their shortcomings, and cursed
them when they failed. The oppressors have often taken the laws into
their own hands and have slaughtered others without repentance, and
some have taken public offices as governors of states, senators and
congressmen of the United States, and with uplifted hands have sworn
to defend the nation against enemies foreign and domestic, and to
uphold the principles of the Federal Constitution, but then they have
defied many of the verdicts of the Supreme Court and have lived in
contempt of the same.
Against these oppressors the lovers of freedom have fought, and are
still fighting a heroic battle and will continue this fight until the enemies
of freedom are subdued and all Americans are free.
In dealing with the struggle of the American Negro, the speaker pointed
out the facts of the Negro's patriotism.
In our feeble way we have striven to help the nation grow and to come to new
heights of power. With horny hands we have felled the trees, cleared the forest,
tilled the soil, and have had a share in the cultural pattern of American life. With
the nation we have suffered, and as soldiers our sons and daughters have gladly
died, and their sacred remains rest in the earthly bosom of many nations scattered 
around the world, and some have perished on mad oceans, and their invisible
particles have found their place in the watery niches of the Seven Sects'... We
still appreciate our flag and pledge our allegiance to this Republic, and are
dedicated to the highest ideals for which it stands ... We regret however, that
there remain many shameful spots on the nation's life and character. We must
confess that there are many promises unfulfilled, and the nation is still partly
free and partly bound with chains. As a race our rights are still restricted, and
the slaves have been emancipated only in part; and for one hundred years, the
ghost of the past still haunts us and the demon of injustice brandishes his sword,
and many unjust judges still occupy, the sacred bench. We have exechanged the
chains of slavery for the cursed ropes of segregation, and the weights of servitude 
for the Burdens of discrimination. After one hundred years, legally and
morally, the nation it in many respects Where it was in 1863. The Republic is
still divided between north and south. The great rebellion still goes on, and the
Civil War has not been completely closed. The cry for deliverance is heard in
every hamlet, village, and town in the United States of America . . .
This struggle has expressed itself in many and varied forms, but historically it
has never been a struggle of violence. The voice of this oppressed minority has
been the voice of request, of reason, persuasion, and pressure by protest...
These protest pressures have expressed themselves in the form of boycotts, acts
of civil disobedience, economic reprisals, and mass parades. The purposes of
these pressures are clear.
1. To secure immediate deliverance from the perils, penalties, and
shame of segregation.
2. To gain first-class citizenship in every aspect of American life.
3. To shook the conscience of America and goad the majority into
action against injustice.
4. To expose these tint within the United States to the world in order
that the whole nation might repent in shame and change her ways,
and enforce her laws, and respect all men, and grant to all citizens
first-class rights, first-class opportunities, and first-class responsibilities. 

However, we must admit there are some daggers in pressure by protect.
1. Since it is designed to change the minds of others for the better, if it
does not accomplish this end immediately, we may tend to become discouraged
and bitter.
2. Our limited economic resources will handicap us as a minority if this
type of battle is long and intensive.
3. If pressure by protest should remove all barriers and win for the American 
Negro all victories against their oppressors, they still must face the long and
arduous task of building their economic fortunes, getting better training in the
professional and scientific fields, and acquiring the type of preparation that is
most essential in this age of automation and under the spell of atomic science.
Here members of the Negro community seek to solve some of the problems they
face by producing some of the things they desire, and thus making them available 
not only for their own race, but for the community both colored and white.
They are led to organize capital, build stores, and produce those things that are
needed and acceptable and appreciated by first-class American citizens. Pressure
by production has some disadvantages:
1. It requires more time for victory than pressure by protest.
2. It does not satisfy at once the impatient spirit of the oppressed, and at
times it seems to move too slowly.
3. It is not as popular and is less glamorous than pressure by protest.
But there are some distinct advantages in pressure by production.
1. It need not wholly negate pressure by protest; that is, while we
build for ourselves and become a competitor with others, we may also
make known the acts of injustice and the sins of discrimination.
2. Pressure by production is designed to improve the lot both of the
oppressed and of the whole community. If the white community does not
accept or respond to pressure by production, the Negro community would
still be successful in lifting its own economical and cultural standard, thereby 
blessing themselves and the community in which they live.
3. If the desire is that we will not trade where we ore discriminated
against, production gives us a place to trade while we await a change in
policy in stores that discriminate and segregate. The truth is, one can wait
longer before going to such a store when one has access to a store where
none of these negatives are encountered or practiced. It is not enough to
give the order that we will not buy groceries and clothing where we are
discriminated against, we must provide a place where groceries, clothing
and shoes may be purchased, and such stores should be built by cooperative
effort so that they will attract the best people among all citizens of the
United States, and the service should be high class, the goods of the highest
caliber.
It is not too much to ask that on the level of production we build some of the
finest restaurants and cafes by cooperative effort, for any restaurant that is
clean and first-class, with food well-seasoned, well-seasoned, and well-cooked, will
attract hungry people in spite pf the color of their skin. Pressure by production
will not allow us to be satisfied just to eat in a nother's restaurant or to be employed, 
in a store owned by other people. Here we labor to change the relationship 
from customer to owner, to that of owner to owner; that is to say, in pressure 
by protest, we leave the store in the hands of our white friends and seek
only the chance and the right to spend our money there, in protest by production
we purchase a store and become a store owner as bur whit? friends, and welcome 
all races and peoples to become our customers. It is not economically sound
to invest our money, in such a way that we weaken ourselves as an economic
group and make economically stronger a segregating and discriminating group.
The day must come when in the field if business Negroes must compete with
their white neighbors as they now compete in sports, in the arts, and in the professions. 

In the scientific field we need not wait until another discovers the formula and
creates the potent and acquires the copyright. The book of knowledge is open,
the highway of wisdom is available, the temple of creativity is not locked; let
us go in, and with the raw materials available, increase the numbers of those
Who are the producers of new commodities and the creators of new implements;
for it is now a matter of record that where the science of medicine is known,
and the art of healing is possessed, men of all colors and classes will knock at
the door and seek admittance to the physicians' office if his skin is as black
as a thousand midnights. Learn well your song, and drink deeply from the
Pierian springs of inspiring music, and the world will bow at your feet and will
delight to sing of your greatness as it has already done for Roland Hayes of
yesteryears, and of Marion Anderson of a more recent date. To young Negroes
I say, let not the opportunity slip. Remember the possibilities of creativity in the
days of thy youth. Spend well the hours of research, study, and thought while
the years of maturity are not yet and the days of rush, conflict, and contest are
not upon you. Fix our eyes now upon the highest mental, moral, and spiritual
star, and go forward and upward by the sparkling light of the same. Open the
sails of your human potentials to the winds of fate and set them for soiling towards 
life's highest and most lofty goals, and make sure of possessing inner
motor power and fuel that will guarantee the continuity of the voyage though
the waves of discrimination be high, and the madcaps of prejudice are breaking
fast, and howling storms beat and tug at your ship with dreadful ferocious, and
merciless power. It is good to fall heir to accumulated wealth and to contend for
and get one's share in the legacies of the past, but it is much better to be armed
with the genius to invent, the ingenuity to produce, and the eternal spirit to
create; for in this context, a Thomas Edison finds an abiding light if the sun
goes down, and a Henry Ford releases the horseless chariots in the streets, and
a gifted Alexander Bell bridges the chasms of distance and puts all comers in
speaking range of their neighbors.
While we shall do all within our power to overcome every obstacle, remove
every hindering stone, and to come to the full stature of first-class citizenship
in this country, we will not forget however, to work with our many allies that are
now at hand in this great undertaking. Our allies are all American citizens-who
are dedicated to democracy, also the Federal Constitution, the courts of the
land, and every agency of government working for the full realization of the
American dream. The nation herself then has a task in this matter of completing
what has been so nobly begun ...
America must not ask the searchers for freedom to delay their efforts and to
dismiss the quest, for they could not stop if they tried. And the desire to achieve
freedom could not be dismissed if the notion willed it. This desire is as natural
as hunger, thirst, rest, and repose after the labors of the day.
We cannot shrink from our quest for freedom to ease the labors and the duties
of the state. The notion knows well that there can be no compromise at this point
between the citizens and the state. Tell all America freedom is a gift from God,
and its seeds are planted deeply in the souls of men by the Divine Hand, and
no human agency can pluck them out, no flood can wash them away, and no
power con destroy them. The decrees of masters cannot enthrall freedom. The
threats of demagogues will never change it. Biting dogs cannot gnaw it away.
Mobs will never lynch it. Swords cannot separate freedom from the delicate

tissues of the human soul. Charging guns have not eliminated freedom, and
high-powered rifles cannot snuff it out. America, America; prison cells cannot
contain freedom, dungeons will never destroy its fires have not consumed it. If will
never slumber in the graves of honored heroes, and hell with all of its power
will never put an end to it; for even if Crushed to the earth, freedom will in the
course of time rise again, for it is immortal in its nature, divine in its origin, and
eternal in its purpose.
The United States must not and cannot stand idly by and leave this contest in the
hands of the segregators and the segregated, and await the outcome of this
crucial battle between the oppressors and the oppressed. It is the nation's responsibility 
to assure and guarantee freedom to all of its citizens. Too long has
the nation delayed, too long has she postponed direct and immediate action, too
long has she left the struggle in the hands of others, and all too long has she
relegated the task of the achievement of civil rights to a secondary place in her
life and action. The nation must act and act now. If she doesn't act, the present
conflict will breed more confusion, and the present battle will end in a tragic
defeat for the nation. If America does not solve the problem of civil rights constructively, 
she will lose her moral leadership of the free world, and will deny
her own assumption of justice and liberty. The suffering of one part of the notion
reflects itself in the affliction and penalty of the whole.
If one-tenth of the nation's population must be kept in chains, then the other
nine-tenths must live and rear their children in the sight of, and in the fear of
encroaching poverty, and if part of a democracy must be afflicted by the pangs
of segregation and discrimination, then all must live near the dreadful camp of
ignorance and spend their days suffering from the same diseases with which
the port is inflicted. If the rich rob the poor, they must be taxed to guarantee
relief for their needy victims. Remember, the jailer himself is in a sense a prisoner
with his prisoners, and the hangman who springs the trap, himself dies a
thousand deaths...
There are too many isms seeking to invade our country and too many potential
enemies within for the government to take lightly the task of making first-class
citizens out of ail of her people .....
We must tell our congressmen, the governors of our several states, that the civil
rights struggle is not a racial struggle alone. It is the struggle for the very life
of the nation.
Tell Congress when a civil rights bill is before the United States Congress or any
similar bill that has to do with the nation's character and life, it should receive
priority because of what it means to the future of this great Republic.
Tell Congress there will be little use to concentrate on secondaries if the primary
things of the nation dire overlooked and lost. It is not wise for groups, nationalities, 
and races to strive for that which is peculiar to them when the nation's life
is at stake.
Tell the nation north and south it is a most serious blunder for Americans to
talk about the purity of race and the preservation of the Caucasian tradition
when the whole nation is threatened from within.
Tell Congress when the ship at sea is on fire and the bucket brigade is
necessary to extinguish the flames, any passenger is ill-informed or wrongly
directed if said passenger Seeks to protect his stateroom and to exclude himself 
from the joint struggle of passenger and crew to save the endangered
ship. All must work together to save the ship or all aboard, including the
captain, his crew, and passengers will go down together to a common
arave beneath a foaming sea.
Tell the United States Congress, tell the north, and tell the south that after
a hundred years the nation's life is in danger and the ship of state is on
fire. The chief executive, the Congress of the United States, and all Citizens
black and white must join the bucket brigade to put out the fires of prejudice, 
hatred, and inequality, or else all shall perish in the crucial defeat
of the nation ....
The liberty of no people con rest on the broken lives of others, and the
eternal security of a nation cannot be built on the bending bocks of slaves
or the broken bodies of the oppressed and the bleached bones of the
slaughtered. In the interest of herself, and for the preservation of her own
soul, our nation must solve the problem of civil rights and give to each
American citizen the portion of goods that rightfully belongs to him.
Our nation cannot forsake her highest ideals, nor forget her most lofty
dreams and pluck up the foundation stones of freedom and truth on which
our fathers builded. America must not suffer her sacred documents, promising 
human dignity and freedom, to be burned in a furnace of envy
and hate. She will not fail herself or mankind. She has travelled too far
on the road of democracy and freedom to ever turn back to the slime and
scum of human servitude and any form of chattel slavery ...
1. Many who heard it said it was one of the greatest addresses delivered
on civil rights since the days of Frederick Douglass.
2. "It was a great plea for the freedom movement within the framework
of the Federal Constitution and the American philosophy of freedom."
3. Some said, "This was more than an address, it was a directive and a
charter for action in the present and future struggle for civil rights."
4. Many said, "This is the voice of a Christian statesman who has faith in
himself, in his race, his notion, and his God."
5. "Seldom have I ever seen a vast audience so moved and insured."
When the speaker recounted his experience in crossing a picket line to
reach his pulpit to preach, a strange silence gripped the audience and many
wept. When he exhorted all ministers to be prepared for such an experience,
and whenever they face such, a picket line, they must cross it and walk heavily
as they cross, the vast audience took on, an atmosphere of action abd participation, 
and one aged minister was seen to stand and walk bock and
forth as if he
were crossing a picket line. The Governor of the State of Ohio sat in rapt attention 
throughout the whole, address and was visibly moved. At the close of the
address he was one of the first on his feet among thousands of others, He was
heard to say this was one of the greatest addresses to which he had ever listened.
In Dr. J. H. Jackson not only do five million National Baptist have a
great champion, but the Negro race and American democracy have a trusted
spokesman. He never separates the struggle of the Negro race from the American 
struggle. And if there are those who have attached themselves to the civil
rights movement with ulterior motives and for the purpose of using the struggle
to wage a secret bottle against the nation and against religion, said persons
must always regard patriotic Americans, be they colored or white, as their
serious opponents. Dr. J. H. Jackson believes that his race hot the ability to
achieve all of its high goals by working in harmony with the Federal Constitution 
and in the American way of life. His unquestioned patriotism renders him
a serious opponent to the enemies of the nation foreign and domestic, and his
unifying faith in God renders him an unrelenting champion of the Christian
religion.
The Unanimous voice of five thousand official delegates in the adoption of
all measures presented, along with the unanimous reelection of the president for
another term, was a testimony of the faith of the people in his leadership, and
undisputed evidence that Dr. J. H. Jackson it not alone in advocating a Christian
militancy in the present crises.

Some Comments
It was known that Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist
Convention, U.S.A., Inc., would deliver his annual address at 11:00 a.m. There
was the usual keen interest and anticipation of what would be said. At 10:00
a.m. streets leading to the auditorium were jammed, traffic tied up for blocks,
as thousands hurried to set seats. They were rushing to hear one of the great
religious statesmen of our time, a man who
speaks with courage and conviction. Not only
his friends, but his enemies, regard him at a
leader with rare gifts and ability. He has
combined profound thought with deep love of
his race and his nation with a vital faith in
God. Those who fear his power of persuasion
seek to hinder his speech. This, in a large
measure explains why he was not allowed to
address the national convention for The Advancement 
of Colored People July 4th in
Chicago, Illinois.
No true American citizen, militant or
moderate, will disagree with the basic position 
of Dr. J. H. Jackson on the fundamentals
of civil rights when his position is really
known. It is his position that whatever it done
in the struggle for civil rights should always
be regulated by three standards:
1. The letter and spirit of the Federal 
Constitution.
2. The American philosophy of freedom. 

3. The Judeo - Christian view of hymen life and human relationship.
Dr. Jackson is a militant Christian who believes in a Christian militancy as an
approach to civil rights and all other problems of human relations both national
and international.
Because we desire the public to know something of Dr. Jackson's real
position, and because some of us who know the truth have joined together
for the purpose of correcting the false images created by giving to the public
the facts the case.
Our first effort is to give some excerpts from the great address delivered
in Cleveland, Ohio with some comments. The address may be divided roughly
into three sections, namely: (1.) The Work of Segregators. (2.) The Struggle of
the American Negro the Segregated. (3). The Task of the Nation.
Here the speaker sets forth with clarity, the position that has been taken
by those who believe in segregation. Said he:
These have skillfully manipulated the Federal Constitution for the past
one hundred years in order to defend their dogma of segregation end
to justify their sins of discrimination ... They have bolted and barred
the doors of many institutions of learning and have denied others access 
to the ballot box. In the name of democracy they have stolen the
liberty from others and hove forced one-tenth of the nation's population 
into a jim-crow class at second-rate citizens, and have blamed
them for their weaknesses, laughed at their shortcomings, and cursed
them when they failed. The oppressors have often taken the laws into
their own hands and have slaughtered others without repentance, and
some have taken public offices as governors of states, senators and
congressmen of the United States, and with uplifted hands have sworn
to defend the nation against enemies foreign and domestic, and to
uphold the principles of the Federal Constitution, but then they have
defied many of the verdicts of the Supreme Court and have lived in
contempt of the same.
Against these oppressors the lovers of freedom have fought, and are
still fighting a heroic battle and will continue this fight until the enemies
of freedom are subdued and all Americans are free.
In dealing with the struggle of the American Negro, the speaker pointed
out the facts of the Negro's patriotism.
In our feeble way we have striven to help the nation grow and to come to new
heights of power. With horny hands we have felled the trees, cleared the forest,
tilled the soil, and have had a share in the cultural pattern of American life. With
the nation we have suffered, and as soldiers our sons and daughters have gladly
died, and their sacred remains rest in the earthly bosom of many nations scattered 
around the world, and some have perished on mad oceans, and their invisible
particles have found their place in the watery niches of the Seven Sects'... We
still appreciate our flag and pledge our allegiance to this Republic, and are
dedicated to the highest ideals for which it stands ... We regret however, that
there remain many shameful spots on the nation's life and character. We must
confess that there are many promises unfulfilled, and the nation is still partly
free and partly bound with chains. As a race our rights are still restricted, and
the slaves have been emancipated only in part; and for one hundred years, the
ghost of the past still haunts us and the demon of injustice brandishes his sword,
and many unjust judges still occupy, the sacred bench. We have exechanged the
chains of slavery for the cursed ropes of segregation, and the weights of servitude 
for the Burdens of discrimination. After one hundred years, legally and
morally, the nation it in many respects Where it was in 1863. The Republic is
still divided between north and south. The great rebellion still goes on, and the
Civil War has not been completely closed. The cry for deliverance is heard in
every hamlet, village, and town in the United States of America . . .
This struggle has expressed itself in many and varied forms, but historically it
has never been a struggle of violence. The voice of this oppressed minority has
been the voice of request, of reason, persuasion, and pressure by protest...
These protest pressures have expressed themselves in the form of boycotts, acts
of civil disobedience, economic reprisals, and mass parades. The purposes of
these pressures are clear.
1. To secure immediate deliverance from the perils, penalties, and
shame of segregation.
2. To gain first-class citizenship in every aspect of American life.
3. To shook the conscience of America and goad the majority into
action against injustice.
4. To expose these tint within the United States to the world in order
that the whole nation might repent in shame and change her ways,
and enforce her laws, and respect all men, and grant to all citizens
first-class rights, first-class opportunities, and first-class responsibilities. 

However, we must admit there are some daggers in pressure by protect.
1. Since it is designed to change the minds of others for the better, if it
does not accomplish this end immediately, we may tend to become discouraged
and bitter.
2. Our limited economic resources will handicap us as a minority if this
type of battle is long and intensive.
3. If pressure by protest should remove all barriers and win for the American 
Negro all victories against their oppressors, they still must face the long and
arduous task of building their economic fortunes, getting better training in the
professional and scientific fields, and acquiring the type of preparation that is
most essential in this age of automation and under the spell of atomic science.
Here members of the Negro community seek to solve some of the problems they
face by producing some of the things they desire, and thus making them available 
not only for their own race, but for the community both colored and white.
They are led to organize capital, build stores, and produce those things that are
needed and acceptable and appreciated by first-class American citizens. Pressure
by production has some disadvantages:
1. It requires more time for victory than pressure by protest.
2. It does not satisfy at once the impatient spirit of the oppressed, and at
times it seems to move too slowly.
3. It is not as popular and is less glamorous than pressure by protest.
But there are some distinct advantages in pressure by production.
1. It need not wholly negate pressure by protest; that is, while we
build for ourselves and become a competitor with others, we may also
make known the acts of injustice and the sins of discrimination.
2. Pressure by production is designed to improve the lot both of the
oppressed and of the whole community. If the white community does not
accept or respond to pressure by production, the Negro community would
still be successful in lifting its own economical and cultural standard, thereby 
blessing themselves and the community in which they live.
3. If the desire is that we will not trade where we ore discriminated
against, production gives us a place to trade while we await a change in
policy in stores that discriminate and segregate. The truth is, one can wait
longer before going to such a store when one has access to a store where
none of these negatives are encountered or practiced. It is not enough to
give the order that we will not buy groceries and clothing where we are
discriminated against, we must provide a place where groceries, clothing
and shoes may be purchased, and such stores should be built by cooperative
effort so that they will attract the best people among all citizens of the
United States, and the service should be high class, the goods of the highest
caliber.
It is not too much to ask that on the level of production we build some of the
finest restaurants and cafes by cooperative effort, for any restaurant that is
clean and first-class, with food well-seasoned, well-seasoned, and well-cooked, will
attract hungry people in spite pf the color of their skin. Pressure by production
will not allow us to be satisfied just to eat in a nother's restaurant or to be employed, 
in a store owned by other people. Here we labor to change the relationship 
from customer to owner, to that of owner to owner; that is to say, in pressure 
by protest, we leave the store in the hands of our white friends and seek
only the chance and the right to spend our money there, in protest by production
we purchase a store and become a store owner as bur whit? friends, and welcome 
all races and peoples to become our customers. It is not economically sound
to invest our money, in such a way that we weaken ourselves as an economic
group and make economically stronger a segregating and discriminating group.
The day must come when in the field if business Negroes must compete with
their white neighbors as they now compete in sports, in the arts, and in the professions. 

In the scientific field we need not wait until another discovers the formula and
creates the potent and acquires the copyright. The book of knowledge is open,
the highway of wisdom is available, the temple of creativity is not locked; let
us go in, and with the raw materials available, increase the numbers of those
Who are the producers of new commodities and the creators of new implements;
for it is now a matter of record that where the science of medicine is known,
and the art of healing is possessed, men of all colors and classes will knock at
the door and seek admittance to the physicians' office if his skin is as black
as a thousand midnights. Learn well your song, and drink deeply from the
Pierian springs of inspiring music, and the world will bow at your feet and will
delight to sing of your greatness as it has already done for Roland Hayes of
yesteryears, and of Marion Anderson of a more recent date. To young Negroes
I say, let not the opportunity slip. Remember the possibilities of creativity in the
days of thy youth. Spend well the hours of research, study, and thought while
the years of maturity are not yet and the days of rush, conflict, and contest are
not upon you. Fix our eyes now upon the highest mental, moral, and spiritual
star, and go forward and upward by the sparkling light of the same. Open the
sails of your human potentials to the winds of fate and set them for soiling towards 
life's highest and most lofty goals, and make sure of possessing inner
motor power and fuel that will guarantee the continuity of the voyage though
the waves of discrimination be high, and the madcaps of prejudice are breaking
fast, and howling storms beat and tug at your ship with dreadful ferocious, and
merciless power. It is good to fall heir to accumulated wealth and to contend for
and get one's share in the legacies of the past, but it is much better to be armed
with the genius to invent, the ingenuity to produce, and the eternal spirit to
create; for in this context, a Thomas Edison finds an abiding light if the sun
goes down, and a Henry Ford releases the horseless chariots in the streets, and
a gifted Alexander Bell bridges the chasms of distance and puts all comers in
speaking range of their neighbors.
While we shall do all within our power to overcome every obstacle, remove
every hindering stone, and to come to the full stature of first-class citizenship
in this country, we will not forget however, to work with our many allies that are
now at hand in this great undertaking. Our allies are all American citizens-who
are dedicated to democracy, also the Federal Constitution, the courts of the
land, and every agency of government working for the full realization of the
American dream. The nation herself then has a task in this matter of completing
what has been so nobly begun ...
America must not ask the searchers for freedom to delay their efforts and to
dismiss the quest, for they could not stop if they tried. And the desire to achieve
freedom could not be dismissed if the notion willed it. This desire is as natural
as hunger, thirst, rest, and repose after the labors of the day.
We cannot shrink from our quest for freedom to ease the labors and the duties
of the state. The notion knows well that there can be no compromise at this point
between the citizens and the state. Tell all America freedom is a gift from God,
and its seeds are planted deeply in the souls of men by the Divine Hand, and
no human agency can pluck them out, no flood can wash them away, and no
power con destroy them. The decrees of masters cannot enthrall freedom. The
threats of demagogues will never change it. Biting dogs cannot gnaw it away.
Mobs will never lynch it. Swords cannot separate freedom from the delicate

tissues of the human soul. Charging guns have not eliminated freedom, and
high-powered rifles cannot snuff it out. America, America; prison cells cannot
contain freedom, dungeons will never destroy its fires have not consumed it. If will
never slumber in the graves of honored heroes, and hell with all of its power
will never put an end to it; for even if Crushed to the earth, freedom will in the
course of time rise again, for it is immortal in its nature, divine in its origin, and
eternal in its purpose.
The United States must not and cannot stand idly by and leave this contest in the
hands of the segregators and the segregated, and await the outcome of this
crucial battle between the oppressors and the oppressed. It is the nation's responsibility 
to assure and guarantee freedom to all of its citizens. Too long has
the nation delayed, too long has she postponed direct and immediate action, too
long has she left the struggle in the hands of others, and all too long has she
relegated the task of the achievement of civil rights to a secondary place in her
life and action. The nation must act and act now. If she doesn't act, the present
conflict will breed more confusion, and the present battle will end in a tragic
defeat for the nation. If America does not solve the problem of civil rights constructively, 
she will lose her moral leadership of the free world, and will deny
her own assumption of justice and liberty. The suffering of one part of the notion
reflects itself in the affliction and penalty of the whole.
If one-tenth of the nation's population must be kept in chains, then the other
nine-tenths must live and rear their children in the sight of, and in the fear of
encroaching poverty, and if part of a democracy must be afflicted by the pangs
of segregation and discrimination, then all must live near the dreadful camp of
ignorance and spend their days suffering from the same diseases with which
the port is inflicted. If the rich rob the poor, they must be taxed to guarantee
relief for their needy victims. Remember, the jailer himself is in a sense a prisoner
with his prisoners, and the hangman who springs the trap, himself dies a
thousand deaths...
There are too many isms seeking to invade our country and too many potential
enemies within for the government to take lightly the task of making first-class
citizens out of ail of her people .....
We must tell our congressmen, the governors of our several states, that the civil
rights struggle is not a racial struggle alone. It is the struggle for the very life
of the nation.
Tell Congress when a civil rights bill is before the United States Congress or any
similar bill that has to do with the nation's character and life, it should receive
priority because of what it means to the future of this great Republic.
Tell Congress there will be little use to concentrate on secondaries if the primary
things of the nation dire overlooked and lost. It is not wise for groups, nationalities, 
and races to strive for that which is peculiar to them when the nation's life
is at stake.
Tell the nation north and south it is a most serious blunder for Americans to
talk about the purity of race and the preservation of the Caucasian tradition
when the whole nation is threatened from within.
Tell Congress when the ship at sea is on fire and the bucket brigade is
necessary to extinguish the flames, any passenger is ill-informed or wrongly
directed if said passenger Seeks to protect his stateroom and to exclude himself 
from the joint struggle of passenger and crew to save the endangered
ship. All must work together to save the ship or all aboard, including the
captain, his crew, and passengers will go down together to a common
arave beneath a foaming sea.
Tell the United States Congress, tell the north, and tell the south that after
a hundred years the nation's life is in danger and the ship of state is on
fire. The chief executive, the Congress of the United States, and all Citizens
black and white must join the bucket brigade to put out the fires of prejudice, 
hatred, and inequality, or else all shall perish in the crucial defeat
of the nation ....
The liberty of no people con rest on the broken lives of others, and the
eternal security of a nation cannot be built on the bending bocks of slaves
or the broken bodies of the oppressed and the bleached bones of the
slaughtered. In the interest of herself, and for the preservation of her own
soul, our nation must solve the problem of civil rights and give to each
American citizen the portion of goods that rightfully belongs to him.
Our nation cannot forsake her highest ideals, nor forget her most lofty
dreams and pluck up the foundation stones of freedom and truth on which
our fathers builded. America must not suffer her sacred documents, promising 
human dignity and freedom, to be burned in a furnace of envy
and hate. She will not fail herself or mankind. She has travelled too far
on the road of democracy and freedom to ever turn back to the slime and
scum of human servitude and any form of chattel slavery ...
1. Many who heard it said it was one of the greatest addresses delivered
on civil rights since the days of Frederick Douglass.
2. "It was a great plea for the freedom movement within the framework
of the Federal Constitution and the American philosophy of freedom."
3. Some said, "This was more than an address, it was a directive and a
charter for action in the present and future struggle for civil rights."
4. Many said, "This is the voice of a Christian statesman who has faith in
himself, in his race, his notion, and his God."
5. "Seldom have I ever seen a vast audience so moved and insured."
When the speaker recounted his experience in crossing a picket line to
reach his pulpit to preach, a strange silence gripped the audience and many
wept. When he exhorted all ministers to be prepared for such an experience,
and whenever they face such, a picket line, they must cross it and walk heavily
as they cross, the vast audience took on, an atmosphere of action abd participation, 
and one aged minister was seen to stand and walk bock and
forth as if he
were crossing a picket line. The Governor of the State of Ohio sat in rapt attention 
throughout the whole, address and was visibly moved. At the close of the
address he was one of the first on his feet among thousands of others, He was
heard to say this was one of the greatest addresses to which he had ever listened.
In Dr. J. H. Jackson not only do five million National Baptist have a
great champion, but the Negro race and American democracy have a trusted
spokesman. He never separates the struggle of the Negro race from the American 
struggle. And if there are those who have attached themselves to the civil
rights movement with ulterior motives and for the purpose of using the struggle
to wage a secret bottle against the nation and against religion, said persons
must always regard patriotic Americans, be they colored or white, as their
serious opponents. Dr. J. H. Jackson believes that his race hot the ability to
achieve all of its high goals by working in harmony with the Federal Constitution 
and in the American way of life. His unquestioned patriotism renders him
a serious opponent to the enemies of the nation foreign and domestic, and his
unifying faith in God renders him an unrelenting champion of the Christian
religion.
The Unanimous voice of five thousand official delegates in the adoption of
all measures presented, along with the unanimous reelection of the president for
another term, was a testimony of the faith of the people in his leadership, and
undisputed evidence that Dr. J. H. Jackson it not alone in advocating a Christian
militancy in the present crises.

U. S. Employers Reminded Of Fair Labor Pay Tests
Regional Director Henry A. Huettner 
of the U. S. Department of
Labor's Wage and Hour and Publie 
Contracts Divisions Monday
alerted employers to changes in
Fair Labor Standards Act "white
collar" exemption salary tests which
become effective September 30, 1963.
Huettner pointed out that regulations, 
Part 641, which govern the
exemption of executive, administrative 
and professional employees
from the minimum wage and over,
time pay provisions of the Act, have

been revised to:
1. Establish new salary tests for
exemption of employees of other
than retail and service establishments. 

2. Establish seperate new salary
tests for the exemption of employees 
of retail and service establishmenu 
during an interim period between 
September 30, 1963, and
September 3, 1965, after which the
salary tests become the same as in
other category.
The new salary tests for employ
ees 
of other than retail and service
establishments are:
Executive and administrative employees—$100, 
a week, compared
with a former test of $80 a week for
executive employees and $95 a week
for administrative employees.
Professional employees—$115 a
week, compared with a former test
of $95 a week.
The special proviso for employees
of other than retail and service
establishments qualifying for ex
emption 
under a shortened duty test
is $150 week, compared with a
former test of $125.
For employees of retail and senvice 
establishments, the new salary
tests Airing the September 30, 1963
Sept 3, 1965, interim period, axe:
Executive and administrative employees—$80 
a week.
Professional employees—$96 a
week.
The special proviso for retail and
service establishment employees

qualifying for exemption under a
shortened duty test is $125 a week.
The Fair Labor Standards Act,
also known as the Federal WageHour 
Law, exempts executive, administrative 
and professional employees 
from its minimum wage and
overtime pay provisions if they
meet the tests specified in regulations 
Part 541. While the regulations
do not require employers to pay the
test salaries to employees doing executive, 
administrative or professional 
work, the tests most be met

in order to qualify for exemption
In addition to salary requirements, 
the regulations also contain
certain tests on duties and responsibilities 
which also must be met
for exemption purposes.
Regional Director  inviteed 
the public to get further, more
complete information at the field
office of the Wage and Hour and
Public Contracts Divisions located
at Room 733 - 1371 Peachtree Street
N. E. Atlanta, Georgia. LeRoy
Reid is the Field Office Supervisor.