Chester is a beautiful little city located in that grand and righteous Quaker State called Pennsylvania. It is located well above the Mason-Dixon line and rightully classified as anorthern city. Negroes do not have to sit in the galleriies when they go to theatres in Chester if they can pay the balcony or main floor prices. They may also sit wherever they wish on the street car or bus.

Several years ago the public High School in Chester became somewhat dilapidated, so the city Fathers had anew one erected, but Negro students were not allowed to attend. The old school was for them; the new school for white students. Citizens protested and because they did fifty-two Negro teachers on the city payroll lost their positions in the city school system. All of this happened in Chester, Penn., a beautiful little northern city, far above the Mason-Dixon line.

The injustice that American Negroes are subjected to are known by this journal and no attempt is being made here to "cover up" or defend conditions as they exist, but this Chester, Pa., affair should be sufficient proof that race prejudice is no respecte r of regioins; it is an American characterisitic, practiced from Maijne to Florida; a deeply rooted evil born of ignorance that was prevalent during the Reconstruction period. White and Negro pilgrims to the "deep South" should bear this in mind wna dset about to devise a program that would correct the underlying cause of this stupidity; a program that could be carried out in the North and South, since experience has taught us that both sections of our country are equally in need of convincing proof that American Negroes are American citizens and entitled to all rights, privileges and liberties that are so guaranteed to all American citizens in the Constitution and the Civil Bill of Rights.