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STATEMENT ON CIVIL RIGHTS
AS PRESENTED AT THE GOVERNORS' CONFERENCE
IN CLEVELAND, OHIO
JUNE, 1964
BY
RALPH M. PAIEWONSKY
GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES
The topic of Civil Rights, especially as it relates to public accommodations,
is one which, of necessity, I must approach from a point of view differing from that
of most of you.
For, as Governor of the Virgin Islands, I have had the experience and the
opportunity of dealing with this problem in our territory with remarkable success.
This experience may be of some value to you now since the problem of civil rights
has become the major issue of the Nation.
First, we must deal with this issue on a moral basis, because it is a moral
issue concerned with the simple, elemental humanity and equal dignity of all men.
What you strive for here, we have grown up with in the Virgin Islands from
times beyond the memory of our oldest inhabitants. It is not so much, my distinguished
friends, a matter of law, but a matter of the heart and spirit and mind. 3o it may
seem strange, at first, for one to consider that we needed to have a civil rights law
in the Virgin Islands. In fact, that law that we do have is probably the strongest and
most effective in the world.
There is good reason for this seeming paradox of a strong civil rights law
emerging in a small territory which boasts of a long past of racial harmony.
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