EWP Cong Record 1956 March 27 004

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EWP Cong Record 1956 March 27 004
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Mr. Speaker, there is even another rea-
son which causes southerners to reject
integration. This is not a pleasant sub-
ject, but it is true, nevertheless. It is a
fact that the Negro rate of illegitimate
births is about 11 times greater than the
white race, and that a substantial num-
ber of Negro schoolchildren are illegiti-
mate.

At this point, I include two tables. The

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.

first table was prepared by the District of
Columbia Department of Public Health,
and is one of their official publications.
The second was taken from a book by Mr.
W. E. Debnam, a North Carolina writer,
and appears in his book, Then My Old
Kentucky Home, Goodnight. I cannot
vouch for the accuracy of the figures in
the second table, but believe them to be
substantially true:













Reported illegitimate live births, by race: District of Columbia, 1945-54
All births Hlegitimate births Percent
non-
v Dirthe
ear irths
Percent
: Non- : Non- that are
Total ‘White white Total ‘White Shit vl;](;lilt-e flleggj_
ma
22, 954 17,125 5,829 1, 954 483 1,471 75 25
25, 929 18, 897 7,032 2,192 563 1, 629 74 23
28, 622 20, 285 8, 337 2, 249 523 1,717 77 21
27, 867 18, 919 8,948 2,628 525 2,103 80 23
27, 382 18, 261 9, 121 2,424 417 2,007 81 22
28, 926 19, 090 9, 836 2, 801 505 2, 296 82 23
5 20,077 10, 383 3,068 552 2, 516 82 24
31,898 20, 952 10, 946 3, 395 591 2, 804 83 26
31, 936 20, 420 11, 516 3, 669 620 3,049 83 26.5
, 346 20, 441 11, 905 3,745 617 3,128 84 | 26 -















Source: District of Columbia Dept. of Public Health,

On December 28, 1955, Mr. Gerard M.
Shea, Director of Public Welfare for the
District of Columbia, furnished my of-
fice with the following information re-
garding welfare recipients:

1. The number of colored recipients of

welfare (all phases) in the District of Co-
lumbia is 13,800,

2. The number of white recipients of wel-
fare (all phases) in the District of Columbia
is 4,700.

3. The number of colored illegitimate
children receiving aid from the Department
is 2,750. ;

382798—58063

Biostatics and Health, Education Division, Mar. 8, 1956,

4. The number of white illegitimate chil-
dren receiving aid from the Department is
150.

Mr. Speaker, it has not been my pur-
pose in presenting the foregoing to es-
tablish one race as a super race, or to

. present the other as a race of degener-
ates. I do not hold to either of these
beliefs.

Perhaps some of the facts in the fore-
going dissertation may appear to be
cruel, but they are no less cruel than the
lies that have been spread - about my
people and my State. At least, the fig-














Tllegitimacy | Illegitimacy
State percentage of | percentage of
total white | total Negro
births births

1.33 21.07

1.92 28. 99

1.88 24.02

1.4 20. 39

1.51 20.98

1.54 14.07

1.49 13. 02

1.24 12.34

2.30 18.34

1.19 17.92

2.74 23.53

157 13.02

1.58 17.94

Mississippi- .92 18.10
Missouri___ 1.48 21. 68
Montana.... 1.26 13.92
Nevada____ 1.256 11.64
New Jersey - 1.10 13. 54
North Carolin: 2.18 20. 07
North Dakota. 1.88 13.76
©Ohio - - 7= 1.69 14. 60
Oregon..__..___. 1.21 13.19
Pennsylvania. ... 1.89 18.77
Rhode Island._ ... 1.58 14.23
South Carolina____. 1.73 18.11
South Dakota..._.. 1.28 16. 26
Tennessee..---------- 2.22 21.13
Pexas=i_t=oociiioo o 1.12 16. 98
Utah___ .95 2. 16
Virgipia. . -oiooi = D04 52062
‘Washington._._.____ 1.34 9.19
‘West Virginia- . 3.85 17.19
‘Wisconsin__.. = 1.53 12.00
Wyoming-" __-_Z oo l_l- .87 7.20







ures I have presented are based on fac-
tual studies by impartial agencies, and
are taken from official Government files.

I have presented this information with
the hope that the truth may open the
eyes of those who have been blinded
by leftwing propaganda and brain-
washed by a biased press.

The foregoing is unvarnished truth.
It might be well to mull over the old
adage:

There are none so blind

a;s those who wm
not see. :

¥, 8. GOVEPNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1956