The Plight of the Colored Clerisy

No one in these United States has a harder row to hoe, these days, than temperate and conscientious professors and clergymen who happen to be colored. Some recent incidents at Selma, Alabama, may serve as illustration.

During the last days of May, Selma University — a Negro institution — was troubled by zealots of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the most rowdy and radical of all “civil rights” groups. (A high percentage of its members are not colored, but white radicals of the more raffish variety, not a few with Communist connections.) The SNCC freaks endeavored to organize a “sleep-in” in university buildings, and, in the phrase of their local organizer, a student, “to successfully stop all movement and administration at Selma University until demands are met.”

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No one in these United States has a harder row to hoe, these days, than temperate and conscientious professors and clergymen who happen to be colored. Some recent incidents at Selma, Alabama, may serve as illustration.

During the last days of May, Selma University — a Negro institution — was troubled by zealots of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the most rowdy and radical of all “civil rights” groups. (A high percentage of its members are not colored, but white radicals of the more raffish variety, not a few with Communist connections.) The SNCC freaks endeavored to organize a “sleep-in” in university buildings, and, in the phrase of their local organizer, a student, “to successfully stop all movement and administration at Selma University until demands are met.”