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Editorial
October 21, 1961
Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
What is this article about?
The editorial criticizes Robert Moses of SNCC for leading a student boycott in McComb, Mississippi, causing parents to lose jobs and warning that such actions destroy white employers' goodwill essential for Negro employment opportunities.
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What Robert Moses Didn't Tell
From down in McComb, Mississippi comes reports that many of the parents of the Negro students who boycott the high school down there have lost their jobs, among them some high salaried jobs in the hardwood and lumber processing plants in and around the McComb Community.
The leader of the students, whose parents found it impossible, or willfully neglected to restrain, is Robert Moses, a young Negro from New York City, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, reported the action arm of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Christian Non-Violent Leadership Conference.
What Robert Moses did not tell the students parents is where they are going to be able to get jobs to continue to care for their families and educate their children after losing the jobs they had before he came to their city.
Mississippi Negroes who followed the advice of people from afar like Robert Moses, who don't know what he is talking about in the first place, telling them that white employers can't do without Negroes to work, are being misled to their sorrow as events in McComb are showing.
The basic ingredient in the employment of Negroes in this state is the goodwill of the white employer leading to the recognition of the need of Negroes to work in order to make a living, and people like Robert Moses are doing only one thing and that is destroying the goodwill upon which Negro employment opportunities are based in this state.
From down in McComb, Mississippi comes reports that many of the parents of the Negro students who boycott the high school down there have lost their jobs, among them some high salaried jobs in the hardwood and lumber processing plants in and around the McComb Community.
The leader of the students, whose parents found it impossible, or willfully neglected to restrain, is Robert Moses, a young Negro from New York City, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, reported the action arm of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Christian Non-Violent Leadership Conference.
What Robert Moses did not tell the students parents is where they are going to be able to get jobs to continue to care for their families and educate their children after losing the jobs they had before he came to their city.
Mississippi Negroes who followed the advice of people from afar like Robert Moses, who don't know what he is talking about in the first place, telling them that white employers can't do without Negroes to work, are being misled to their sorrow as events in McComb are showing.
The basic ingredient in the employment of Negroes in this state is the goodwill of the white employer leading to the recognition of the need of Negroes to work in order to make a living, and people like Robert Moses are doing only one thing and that is destroying the goodwill upon which Negro employment opportunities are based in this state.
What sub-type of article is it?
Slavery Abolition
Labor
What keywords are associated?
Robert Moses
Mcccomb Boycott
Negro Employment
Job Loss
Civil Rights Action
White Goodwill
Mississippi Negroes
What entities or persons were involved?
Robert Moses
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Negro Students And Parents In Mccomb
White Employers In Mississippi
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Criticism Of Robert Moses' Student Boycott In Mccomb, Mississippi
Stance / Tone
Opposed To Civil Rights Boycott, Emphasizing Economic Harm To Negro Families
Key Figures
Robert Moses
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Negro Students And Parents In Mccomb
White Employers In Mississippi
Key Arguments
- parents of boycotting negro students in mccomb lost jobs, including high-salaried positions in lumber plants
- robert moses failed to inform parents about job loss consequences for family care and education
- advice from outsiders like moses misleads mississippi negroes about white employers' dependence on their labor
- negro employment in mississippi relies on white employers' goodwill, which boycott actions destroy