ARMY JIM CROW DRAWS FIRE, PG. 7
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Title
ARMY JIM CROW DRAWS FIRE, PG. 7
Description
"CHICAGO – America’s celebration of the Fourth of July reveals to the colored soldier more than anything else the injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim, Colden Brown of New
York City told the March-on-Washington Convention Friday.
Speaking during the Town Hall meeting on “Jim Crow in Uniform,” Mr. Brown, who is chairman of the Winfred Lynn case committee, said:
“America, your celebration to the colored soldier is a shame, your boasted liberty an unholy license, your national greatness swelling vanity, your shouts of rejoicing empty and heartless, your denunciation of fascism brass-fronted impudence, your prayers, hymns, sermons, and thanksgiving, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombasts, fraud and deception, a thin veil to cover up crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages.”
DISCUSSES LYNN CASE
In discussing the Winfred Lynn case, Mr. Brown told the convention that Mr. Lynn’s refusal to serve in a segregated army is important. The fight will be taken to the Supreme Court this fall. If the Supreme Court rules agaist Mr. Lynn, he said it, it will in effect, say to thirteen million colored people that America does not believe in the principles for which we are allegedly fighting. If, on the other hand, the Supreme Court agrees with Winfred Lynn that he should not be forced to serve in a jim-crow army, it will mean, Mr. Brown pointed out, that the army, navy, and their auxiliary services must end segregation and admit all persons without regard to race, color and creed.
U.S. WORKING FOR AXIS
Discrimination of men in the uniform of the U.S., he said, is “a betrayal of American democracy a bar to the war effort and a menace to any kind of just and lasting peace.”"
York City told the March-on-Washington Convention Friday.
Speaking during the Town Hall meeting on “Jim Crow in Uniform,” Mr. Brown, who is chairman of the Winfred Lynn case committee, said:
“America, your celebration to the colored soldier is a shame, your boasted liberty an unholy license, your national greatness swelling vanity, your shouts of rejoicing empty and heartless, your denunciation of fascism brass-fronted impudence, your prayers, hymns, sermons, and thanksgiving, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombasts, fraud and deception, a thin veil to cover up crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages.”
DISCUSSES LYNN CASE
In discussing the Winfred Lynn case, Mr. Brown told the convention that Mr. Lynn’s refusal to serve in a segregated army is important. The fight will be taken to the Supreme Court this fall. If the Supreme Court rules agaist Mr. Lynn, he said it, it will in effect, say to thirteen million colored people that America does not believe in the principles for which we are allegedly fighting. If, on the other hand, the Supreme Court agrees with Winfred Lynn that he should not be forced to serve in a jim-crow army, it will mean, Mr. Brown pointed out, that the army, navy, and their auxiliary services must end segregation and admit all persons without regard to race, color and creed.
U.S. WORKING FOR AXIS
Discrimination of men in the uniform of the U.S., he said, is “a betrayal of American democracy a bar to the war effort and a menace to any kind of just and lasting peace.”"
Creator
B. M. Phillips
Publisher
Baltimore Afro-American
Date
1934, 7-10
Collection
Citation
B. M. Phillips, “ARMY JIM CROW DRAWS FIRE, PG. 7,” African American Fourth of July, accessed April 28, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/306.