European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse Aiming for die Senate the cites Public both sides tried to draw Brooke into i was asked to give an opinion on proposed Boycott our Law says children cant be kept out of even by their i said some negroes were disturbed by that ruling but i told them in Here to Rule on the some of the More militant White civil rights people have said i should be out there leading Brooke was born in his who died about two years was a lawyer with the veterans Brooke recalls that Washington Basi Cally was a segregated but i never really knew segregation or discrimination the Way negroes knew it in the deep Ive never been poor and the never been i drove a family ear in col i grew of in a warm and we lived in a negro Community that had everything within its limited so i didst know we were not part of the total after graduating to 1m1 from Howard then a largely negro broke entered uie was segregated army part of world War n was spent in fighting behind German lines with Edward Brooke and family think this sign will be appropriate in by Donald a staff writer to when Edward Brooke first ran for statewide office in Massachi was a protestant in a Catholic a Republican in a democratic state and a negro in a caucasian in 1 was but i got Over one million it want i bad the dubious distinction of receiving More votes than any other losing candidate that Brooke ran for Secretary of state that two years later he sought the at Torney generalship and in 1m4 he was reelected by a record plurality for a that was the election in which president Johnson and Edward Kennedy were defeating Republican opponents by More than a million like most successful Brooke yearned to move up and late last december his Chance just 24 hours alter Leverett Saltonstall announced he would not run for the attorney general declared his candidacy for Saltonstall seat in the elec Tion this Brooke is favored to win the Republican nomination and get a shot at becoming the first negro in the Senate since the with the general elect pm Ilu a Way opponent will be John saw la us second term As vie Tat who mses wheelchair and to a formidable beat tog my of the Kenedy Machow to we us first term As if Brooke be will be pioneering the Way for other who Are moving up in elective office All across Are serving in the House of nearly 100 Are sitting in state and soon there Wolfl this is inevitable be cause the spread of reapportionment is a Stag out new that Are exclusively some negroes Are winning election in waste clues Robert Clayton a is mayor of it has a population of of Wuch Only Are Floyd Deputy mayor of a City with a population of 000 of which some Are March 1966 stripes italian partisan during this period he met remigia Ferrari Sacco of after the he sent for her and they flail filial tue Maidieu in Ine Imus us have two and de Brooke settled in Boston in entered Boston University school of Law and received a master of Laws decree in he refuses to classify my set As a moderate or Liberal re would Brooke Welcome any support in his Senate race i want to be endorsed by the in Dos klan i hive a Treen d any support by the command St and i to in do fed by this Hecta Brooke to accustomed to being described As the Aaroni Only attorney general Aad As potentially the first negro senator since he a crags it Elf As an historic last As John Kea aedes election As the first Catholic Presl deat was an historic Brooke cites polls and his victories in 1062 and 1m4 As evidence that race is not a Factor in statewide elections in the voters of this state Are so racially Blind they reelected me by should the Republican party try to exploit Brooke if they derive some in Happy for he but in not going to run around the country taking bows As the announced candidate for the the Only people who can elect me Are the people of its More important to the party for me to there will be plenty of time to run around taking bows in january at Brooke is tall and he most often wears the dark suits with vests preferred by sedate Boston he is the Type at campaigner who gives the impression be enjoys walking the two blocks from us office in the state Howe to the Coar Brase where met of the states cases Are Brooke stows Down half a Dosen times for a hard a smile and to How Are yakt1 during the past Brooke has made few political he has been mighty presenting to special grand juries evidence of corruption to state government gathered by the Massachusetts crime in two and a half years More than co individuals have been and Brooke also directs prosecution of these those indicted have included two for Mer speakers of the Massachusetts a former head of the state police and several former members of the governors Brooke has stood pretty Mach aloof on Ike local civil rights when controversy broke on to Boston Over alleged de Facto segregation to my Iii gave him to by Biu a staff writer when Harold Robert Perry at the age of that be wanted to become a the roman Catholic Church dealt him a rude the studious lad applied to several religious orders for Seminary the reply they did not accept until it had not occurred to me that my race would be a Handicap in anything i wanted to be without the Church dealt him another Shock Money to the Vatican and appointed a Bishop auxiliary to archbishop Philip Matthew Hannan of the archdiocese of new in Vatican records he thus became the first negro Bishop of the Church in the United although Bishop James Healy of who died to had some negro Bishop Healy was the son of an Irish Man and a said Bishop his Mother on eighth the new Orleans spread ing ove1iu parishes has of them be about a third of the members of the new Bishops Parish Church Are be Blihor Perry right at ii shop Perry is easing cautiously into an unfamiliar since toe announcement of his be has at tended As Many Church social functions around new Orleans As i wanted to be seen by As Many people As possible and to shake hands with As Many As he i think that half of there Are catholics Here who were not pleased by my a but 1 suppose i will be shielded from not Many of them Are Likely to urn up at Church fun if 1 should meet i will not argue they Are entitled to their Opin All Catholic religious orders Are now open to but it was the divine word society which first trained negro priests in this it was to this order that Young Perry turned to achieve the the Bishop is not Happy about the racial overtones of his new but he i am aware that my appointment is looked upon As a it May help bring More negroes into the i Hope the stabs and stapes u
