Shall Not Happen Again! Save Lives of McGee and Trenton Six (catalogued as: Indonesian people where women sit in their councils)

=== [PDF page 1] === Т11Г VOHKI R. Sl'NDAY. МАНГИ 4, Ì9S1 Раде 4 'I/ Shull \о1 Παμμνα Affilia ‘ Save Lives of McGee and Trenton 61 By Harry Raymond Il shall nol happen again! This was the pledge made by democratic Americans everywhere when seven innocent Negro men—the world-famous Martinsville Seven—were put to death on Feb. 2 and 5 in Virginia’s electric chair. The charge against the seven was the trump©;d-up charge of í a whiile woman, the j; traditional alibi for the hundreds i; of Dixiccrat legal lynching of Ne- I groes, 51 of which have been l committed in the State of Virginia: alone. Now. the State of Mississippi announces it will add another Ne gro victim to the list. lie is Willie McCce, 3fi, World War II veteran and father of four children. lie is scheduled to walk to the chair in Laurel, Miss., at 12:01 a. m., March 20. Again it is the case of a false rape charge, a charge that the state failed to prove during a series of Ì three tri als. :: more open and obvious part of an I official govremmen t policy ot terror ■asing sic side by side with jj that is incireusing federal administration’s twin drive toward fascism and war. ■ The legal lynching system is up;j held l>v tíi© legislative branch i which refuses to legislate against jimerow terror. It is allowed to continue by the judicial branch which declines to in tenene to save Ne gro victims of the terror. Refusal of the U. S. Supreme Court to review the McGee case; lias placed the federal govern ment s stamp of approval on the planned legal lynching. But legal lynching is not peculiar to the South. There is the fiame-up murder case against the мм I six Trenton, N. ]., Negror i: second trial of this case is sebedriled to get under way Monday, Wíl.LIE McGEE was never identified as the alleged attacker ■. of Mrs. Troy Hawkins, the white l. woman* who said a person she thought was a Negro was intimate i; with her on the night OÍ NOV. 3,!·:·: 1945. A police-written "confession” щ produced after McGee had suffer- Ш ed a month of beatiliigs,, torture and sweatbox treatmei it itn a Mississippi jail, have long since been repudiated by McGee. Four times in five years McGee THE TREN TON SIX as their second trial ope ned (front, left Collis English, James Thorpe, Horace Wilson (back): Ralph CooPer> McKinley Forrest, John McKenzie. March 5, in an atmosphere °f! today is preparing fnr wa violent prejudice against Negroes. Addressing itself to the McGee ^ There is the famous case against, case the paper jcclared: Charles M. Gordy, Sr., of Detroit. "Any lousv, conscienceless lawThis Negro father is charged with yer wjl0 see'j-s to defeat the ends murder for killing an officer while 0[ justice in the Willie McGee di lending his home against illegal case should be branded as a pub search and seizure. lic enemy and treated as such.” Another editorial in the same WILLIE McGEE displays the headline “Not THE MISSISSIPPI Dixieerats Now On” and warns that slower process, as is,h. case W the per sonai safety of McGee’s de Cas¡I Hights Congress and by mass nf the шоЕ killings and oHical L^ b|,e'v that their iblei fenders will not be guaranteed in protests from all over Ameraa, Ivochmgs of Negroes m the booth. ы WAR and keepiog tire Mississippi. from Europe and Asia. Now. tor i the crime is one and the same. the fifth time, the Mississippi white It is genocide and has been de- 1 ι,?[° ţm ι " *’»"/· ' A NEGRO EDITOR, who print supremacists have again read his fined as such as by the Allied War e Jac s,. is t spokesman tor the Dixiecrat ad- ed articles defending McGee, was tlealh warrant. l.nminal Inals at jNuremburg aneli ri«·e· warned by the News editor that With the memory of the brutal later bv the Uniteti Nations Dcc- ¡««¡»tatuu. of Mtss.ss.pp, Cov. his past work would not be perMmtmsvrM.. Seven, esce,„ions a-, laration of Human Righfs. I •'rte ЫЕ bušfrléss of the nation milted to go "unnoticed.” fresh in the nations memory, the But these threats aimed at deny battle cry must continue in Mc! MORE AND MORE the legal ing due process of law for a Ne Gee’s behalf in mounting volume: 1 lynching, like that threatening Me gro citizen, the growiirg legal lt shall not happen again! |čee, is supplanting the system of Ivnch teiTor and the immediate JOHN DERRICK tnreat of death that hangs over the In Mississippi, as in Virginia, | mob lynching. Mob actions, which head of Willie McGee—these the death penalty for rape is ap-Jhave shown a slight decline in face ' courts to save Willie McGee. the things that must not go un-. pHding plied to Negroes only. No white of vigorous opposition, have not ШЦ not,ceri by the Amene«, people,¡h man eonvicted of this charge has ¡been eliminated, however. McGee Μ Miss., stay the and the officials of their govern. · ever been executed in these two!was thrice threatened by the mob. execution and i ssue a complete statev. ment. j And in New York City John pardon to McGee. The battlee cry must be heard ' Derrick. Negro war veteran, was • Set up committees everywhere throughout the land: THE McGEE CASE is one of ¡shot to death by a policeman, and There to save Willie McGee. It shall not happen again! в series of acts of torture and ¡ *he cop was exonerated by a New Presklent Truman must hear itJs'‘onld be neighborhood commitviolence practiced against the Ne-1 ^υΓ^ County grand jury despite union committees. Derrick was minding gro people bv a white ruling class.! *he fact that Already in the South the jimerow his °"n business in a law-abiding lynch system has reached a stage|manner "'hen he was killed, paralleling Hitler’s racist murder1 This system of legal lynching authority under the Federal Civil! broups. of the Jewish people. Most of the in *he South is directed against • Call on all public officials, High ts Act to order his Attorney1 legal and mob Ivnchings, regularly ¡ N>ßoro men and women alike, General to intervene in McGee’s your congressmen and senators, One the most shocking cases reported in the southern new I urging that they publicly petition behalf. pap ~ rers, are rooted in charges that j recer*t history the pronouncement Preside nt Truman to act at once *he death sentence against Mrs. this; tu that Negro man was intimLEGAL ACTION to save Me- lo save McGee. a white woman. The i ^°sa Lee Ingram, of Ellaville, Ca., Gee will be taken by Civil Right • Have youir neighbors, fellow victim is either dragged from his mo'h*'r of 12 children. Jan. 2i, Congress la wyers in the federal workers amil I riends write, wire home or the local jail and killed hv · 194.8. She killed a white farmer courts. It is the dut y, therefore, ol anti telephone the White House ainst his lynched the "bile defending herself ад; a mob or legally the U. S. Att orney General to join demanding action. official execution chamber afte r a armed attack against her lil with McGee’s attorneys in a final · Circulate the Civil Rights farce trial. apt>eal to the cm irts. If the Presi-! Co ngress pettitiön and return the THIS BRAVE NEGRO woman When the Dixieerats charge a dei it fails to order him to do so. petition to G RC headequa rters, 23 with rape, as in the McGee was saved from Georgia’s electric tke Federal Civil Rights Act W!il! W. 2fi St., New York 10. N. case, they assert he has acted to chair by world-wide protests. She 1| remain nothing more than scrap. Help organize the righttenus in "pollute the white race and must is today being persecuted while Ш of paper. dignation of the American people. sen ing a life sentence. The fight Ш Now is the time for action. Wherever you are. let your voice iplete freedom con- И Whether committed with whole- ¡ for her • Demand that President Tru be heard. sale rapiidity, was the case of! tinnes. man order his Altonncy (.encrai It shall not happen again! MRS. INGHAM 1 litler’s i nurder of the Jews, or by| Legal Kuching have become a to intervene al once in the U. S. Willie McGee must not did