LIFE NOT SAFE IN SOUTH
Mississippi Negroes Issue Statement Explaining Plight Along with information brought to the Leader office by a business man just out of Memphis, Tenn., that more than 1,000 colored people left that city last Saturday night on trains going to Chicago and other points North, comes a statement from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, making public a mass meeting of prominent colored citizens of Jackson, Miss., recently, explaining to the whites of that state the reason of the exodus of colored labor from that section, which follows:
"The Negro feels that life is not safe in Mississippi," says the statement, "and his life may be taken with impunity at any time upon the slightest pretext or provocation by a white man."
The statement which is signed by S. D. Redmond, colored lawyer and chairman of the Jackson mass meeting, continues:
"The record filibuster, vote and defeat by the Southern representatives in Congress against the Dyer-Anti-Lynch Bill, in the last Congress, has caused the Negro to believe that the South irrevocably determined to perpetuate therein lynch law and mob violence in the South.
"The Negro has generally despaired of obtaining his rights as a citizen in this section. He has lost faith and a few of the following facts all tend to force him to this conclusion."
Among the outstanding grievances recited in the list are the following:
That twenty dollars is spent for the education of every white child in Mississippi against one dollar for every Negro child.
That while there are 1000 high schools for white children in the state there is but one such institution maintained for colored children.
"It appears that almost innumerable Negro tenant farmers charge their landlords with either no settlement or an unfair settlement, and many Negroes after appealing to both State and Federal authorities in vain, have given up in despair and sought other climes some of them charging that a state of peonage exist in certain sections of the State.
"The Negro charges that one white man's word may outweigh that of a hundred Negroes; that no public improvement as a rule is made in those sections of towns and cities occupied by Negroes."
In addition the statement claims that Negroes in Mississipp, although they contributed more soldiers to the U. S. Army during the war than the whites, are completely excluded from all shares in jury service, the ballot and from any participation in government.
"This he hold responsibe for all of his many inequalities and injustices under the law, and feels that notwithstanding the kindly feelings of many to the contrary, that such a state and condition must ever remain just as long as he is denied the ballot; since history affords no example of mutual cooperation, contentment and mutual welfare, where one group assumes guardianship of another and attempts to govern them without the consent of the governed."
The report asserts that those Negroes who have left Mississippi cannot be brought back but that the exodus can be checked if conditions are remedied.

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