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Show Editorials "Their Rights Recent news articles throughout the world have carried extensive coverage of movements whose object has been to Dring about civil equality for the American Negro. Many Aew these movements as successful and, though it is slow in coming, progress is being made. In the publicity given to the cause of the Negro, other minority groups in America, such as Jews, Mexican-Americans, Orientals, Italians and others, have been almost forgotten. for-gotten. These people, just as the Negroes, have been walked In and shoved into a corner and forgotten through the years. Many of them have overcome the discrimination and prejudice preju-dice as their families have established themselves and contributed con-tributed their skills and talents to our society. Nevertheless, prejudice and civil injustices are still waged against the minority. The importance and necessity of civil rights legislation are realized most acutely by members of minority groups. People who comprise a majority group seldom feel the results re-sults of discrimination and are consequently less aware of the necessity for various laws to correct civil inequalities. As a result, majority groups often act with indignation when called upon to change their established social patterns for reasons not entirely evident to them. We are now at a point in our nation's history where 1 the majority is being made aware of the grievances of the minority. Americans are seeing, reading and hearing about the conditions in which poor and discriminated people must live. Bills are being introduced to Congress in an attempt to right civil wrongs. At this time of decision and re-evaluation of our social 1 safe'cture, the Chronicle urges Americans to remember all 6f the minority groups and to strive for legislation of value to Negro, Jew, Mexican-American and Oriental alike. |