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Opinion of w.e.b. du bois
TO THE
(Manifesto
of
African
WORLD
the Second
Congress.)
Pan-
For the purpose of raising such
peoples to intellige nce ,self-knowledge
groups.
|THE absolute equality of races,
—physical, political andsocial—isthe founding stone of
world peace and humanadvancement.No one denies greatdiffe
The insidious and dishonorable
but the voice of science, religion and
practical politics is one in denying propaganda, which, for selfish ends,
so distorts
andraces
denies
facts as and
to
represe
the God-appointed existence of super-races,
or of
naturally
impossible and undesirable, should
inevitably and eternally inferior.
be met with widespreaddisseminatio
of making the Negro slave a free
citize
proofs of the impossibility of selfgovernment among black men; the
experience of Spanish America does
not prove that mulatto democracy
That in the vast range of time, will not eventually succeed there; the
one group should in its industrial aspirations of Egypt and India are
technique, or social organization, or not successfully to be met by sneers
spiritual vision, lag a few hundred at the capacity of darker races.
years behind another, or forge fitfully
ahead, or come to differ decidedly in
thought, deed and ideal, is proof of
the essential richness and variety of
human nature, rather than proof of
the co-existence of demi-gods and
apes in human form. The doctrine
We who resent the attempt to treat
of racial equality does not interfere civilized men as uncivilized, and who
with individual liberty, rather, it
fulfilsin our hearts
it. And
of all the
grievance
uponvariou
bring
that of the
color those
of thewho
skinlynch
in the past been prejudged and classified,grievance
against
and texture of the hair, is surely the the untried, disfranchise theintellig
most adventitious and idiotic.
complain; but not simply or
primarily
It is the duty of the world to
backward and suppressed groups of
mankind. The rise of all men is a
menace to no one and is the highest
human ideal; it is not an altruistic
benevolence, but the one road to
world salvation.
the millions of our fellows, blood of
our blood, and flesh of our flesh, who
have not even what we have—the
power to complain against monstrous
assist the power
in every
wrong,
to way
see the
and advance
to
know the source of our oppression.
How far the future advance of
mankind will depend upon the social
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contact and physical intermixture of Buddha and Mahmoud, and in the
the various strains of human blood mightiest A g e of Human Reason,
is unknown, but the demand for the there can be found in the civilized
world enoughofofblood
altruism,
learning
interpenetration of countries andintermingling
has come,
in
modern days, from the white race and benevolence to develop nativeinst
alone, and has been imposed upon enslaved by ignorant and selfish
brown and black folks mainly by agents of commercial institutions,
brute force and fraud.
On top of whose one aim is profit and power
this, the resulting people of mixed for the few.
race have had to endure innuendo,
persecution, and insult, and thepenetratedcountries have been force d
And this brings us to the crux of
the matter: It is the shame of the
If it be proven that absolute world world that today the relation between
main isgroups
of the
mankind
best for
future, and
segregation by group, color or historictheaffinity
let the white race leave the dark their mutual estimate and respect is
thethe
degree
in
world and the darker races will
gladlydetermined
leave the chiefly
white. byBut
proposition
which
one
other to
can subject
their
differences;
whothe
mutua
men, of men whose likenesses far outweigh
its service, enslaving
labor,
making
have each
other
only on
thought and dream, but who cansuccessfully
compulsory,
uprooting
terms of equality, justice and mutual ignorance
respect. They are the real and only ruthlessly religion and customs, and
peacemakers who work sincerely and destroying government, so that the
favored Few may luxuriate in the toil
peacefully to this end.
of the tortured Many. Science,Rel
made the slaves of world commerce
and industry, and bodies, minds,
souls of Fiji and Congo, are judged
almost solely by the quotations on
the Bourse.
The beginning of wisdom ininterracialcontact is the establishmen
The day ofpeoples.
such worldorganiza
political institutions amongsuppressed
The habit of democ
earth. Despite the attempt to prove made for it in other ages, the 20th
century must
to judge
menis as
that its practice is the secret and
divine
gift ofcome
the few,
no habit
more
natural or more widely spread among men and not as material and labor.
primitive people, or more easily capable of development among masses.
The
great
industrial
problem
Local self-government with a
minimum
of help and oversight can be
which has hitherto been regarded as
established tomorrow in Asia, in
the domestic problem of culture
Africa, in America and in the Isles
lands, must be viewed far more
of the Sea. It will in many instances
broadly, if it is ever to reach just
need general control and guidance,
settlement. Labor and capital in England, F
but it will fail only when thatguidanceseeks ignorantly and con
sim
solve their problem as long as a
people's liberty and good.
poverty and injustice marks the
relat
estimate, which half the peoples of
earth put on the other half, depends
mainly on their ability to squeeze
profit out of them.
Surely in the 20th century of the
Prince of Peace, in the millenium of
OPINION
7
If we are coming to recognize that
ignorance among the natives,
the great modern problem is to correct has enslaved them and is stillensl
maladjustment in the distribution of declined even to try to train black
wealth, it must be remembered that and brown men in realself-government,to
the basic maladjustment is in the folks as civilized, or to grant to colored co
outrageously unjust distribution of government which it freely gives to
world income between the dominant white men.
and suppressed peoples; in the rape
of land and raw material, and monopoly of technique and culture. And
in this crime white labor is particeps
andis consciously,
carelessly
criminis with white capital.Unconsciously
Belgium
a nation which
has but
and deliberately, the vast power of recently assumed responsibility for
has been
cajoled some
and flatt
the white labor vote in moderndemocracies
her colonies, and
has taken
enslave and debauch black, brown steps to lift them from the worst
they are regime;
themselves
and yellow labor, until with fatalretribution,
abuses of the autocratic
but toda
bound and gagged and renderedimpotent
by theto resulting
monop
she has not confirmed
the people
the world's raw material in the the possession of their land and
labo
few. any voice in their
hands of a dominant, cruel andirresponsible
allow the natives
own government, or to provide for
their political future.
Her colonial
policy is still mainly dominated by
the banks and great corporations.
But we are glad to learn that the
present government is considering
a liberal program of reform for the
future.
And, too, just as curiously, the
educated and cultured of the world,
the well-born and well-bred, and even
Portugal and Spain have never
the deeply pious and philanthropic, drawn a legal caste line against persons o f
receive their training and comfort Negro descent. Portugal has a
huma
on condition
and luxury, the ministrations of delicate
and sensibility,
But, beauty
the industrial
unfortunately,
and the methods of distribution or concessions of Portuguese Africa are
interfere with the legal props which almost wholly in the hands offorei
rest on a pitiful human foundation will not control, and who are exploiting
of writhing white and yellow and African slave trade.
brown and black bodies.
W e claim no perfectness of our
own nor do we seek to escape the
The United States of Americaaf
blame which of right falls on the
black folks suddenly emancipated
backward for failure to advance, but
them and began their education; but
noblesse oblige, and we arraigncivilizationand more especially thec
it acted without system orforetho
their own better conscience.
educating them withoutthoroughnes
them the while to lynching,lawlessn
England, with
her courts of
commerce and a
has nevertheless
her Pax Britannica,
justice, established
certain apparentrecognitionof native law and custom
systematically fostered
s
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to give her a single bit of help,
aid or sympathy.
their own government, theyenfranchized
the Negro and then whend
What do those wish who see these
thousands of educated and civilized
evils of the
line and
black folk to be lawlesslydisfranchised
and color
subjected
to aracialdiscri
caste system
1812, 1861, 1897, and 1917, they divine right of suppressed andback
asked and allowed thousands of be free?
black men to offer up their lives as
a sacrifice to the country whichdespisedand despises them.
The Negro race through itsthin
I—The recognition of civilized
men as civilized despite their race or
France alone of the great colonial color
II—Local
powers has sought to place her cultured black
citizens self
on agovernment
plane of for
absolute legal and social equality backward groups, deliberately rising
as experience
and highestlegislat
knowledge grow
with her white and given themrepresentation
in her
to complete selfmust
government
under by
state education. This splendidbeginning
be completed
the
limitations
of
a
self
governed
indigenes the ownership of the soil,
by protecting native labor against world
III—Education in self knowledge,
the aggression of established capital,
and by asking no man, black or white, in scientific truth and in industrial
to be a soldier unless the country technique, undivorced from the art
of beauty
gives him a voice in his own government.
IV—Freedom in their own
religi
right to be different and non-conformi
V—Co-operation with the rest
of the world in government,ind
Freedom and Peace
The independence of Abyssinia,
VI—The ancient commonowne
Liberia Haiti and San Domingo, is
fruits
and defence
theunre
absolutely necessary to anysustained
belief against
of the black
folk i
sincerity and honesty of the white.
These nations have earned the right
VII—The establishment under the
a11
to be free, they deserve the recognitionLeague
of the of
world;
notwithstanding
Nations
of aninternatio
their faults and mistakes, and the problems
fact that they are behind the most
advanced civilization of the day,neverthelessthey compare favorably
with the past, and even more recent,
VIII—The establishment of aninte
history of most European nations, with the protection of native labor.
and it shames civilization that the
treaty of London practically invited
Italy to aggression in Abyssinia, and
The world must face two eventualiti
that free America has unjustly and the great world states, with political,
cruelly seized Haiti, murdered and civil and social power and privileges
for a time enslaved her workmen, absolutely equal for its black and
overthrown her free institutions by white citizens, or the rise of a great
force, and has so far failed in returnblack African state founded in Peace
and Good Will, based on popularedu
GENERAL LUIS
9
SORELAS
THE
1(1
CRISIS
of any State than has devolved
freedom of trade; autonomous and
sovereign in its internal policy, but upon yours in re the Negroes of
from its beginning a part of a great Phillips County condemned to death
society of peoples in which it takes in the electric chair and so sentenced
its place with others as co-rulers of by the courts of your State. It is a
the world.
deed to be contemplated with extreme
In the execution of these
In some such words and thoughts horror.
as these we seek to express our will men, a race is suffering crucifixion."
T oletter,
our aidProf.
we call
all men
and ideal, and the end of our untiring effort.
In his
Kerlin
explains
of the Earth who love Justice and the iniquities of the peonage system
Mercy. Out of the depths we have and the travesty of trial given the
cried unto the deaf and dumb masters
of the
world. The
Out letter
of the received
depths
Elaine
Negroes.
we cry to our own sleeping souls.
much publicity and was so resented
The answer is written in the stars.
ROBERT
T.
KERLIN
by the Board of the Virginia Military
Institute that Prof. Kerlin'sresign
the Board, which stated that "he had
rendered his further connection with
the Virginia Military Institute undesirab
R E A D E R S of T H E CRISIS will
remember the appearance a
year ago of a compilation of
Negro opinion gathered in a
volume entitled "The Voice of the
We can not express too deeply our
Negro." Here for the first time we appreciation of Prof. Kerlin's course
had a book bringing to the white as in sending his letter to the Governor
well as the colored reader theNegro's
criticism,
through hi
of Arkansas, and
in standingunsw
press, of America's treatment of him dealings with his Board. Virginia
and his race. The book contained Military Institute, designed topro
an interesting preface by its compiler,hasProf.
Robert from
T. Kerlin,profes
dismissed
its force a man
Institute, Lexington, Va. Prof.Kerlin
displaying the finestfollowed
couragethis
the by aIns
"Contemporary Negro Poetry." He
might have continued his literaryeffortsundisturbed ; but th
wrongs of the Negro pressed upon
him, and when he read of thecondemnationto death of the six
Neg
Only through self criticism can an
Elaine riots, he used his splendid
command of English to publish an individual or a nation progress. The
open letter to Thomas C. McRae, South steadily suppresses self criticism
Governor of Arkansas, entreating showing itself more and more and
more sterile.
cannot suppress
a
It sentence
to the
of the courts
the Governor to give earnestconsideration
pronounced upon these Negroes. man like Mr. Kerlin, but judging
"Not in the history of our Republic." from its past acts, with the Ku Klux
Prof. Kerlin said, "has a more tre­ spirit, it will drive him beyond its
Perhaps more than any
mendous responsibility before God borders.
other
section
of the world, the South
and the civilized world devolved
refuses
to
listen
to the voice that cries
upon the shoulders of the chief executive
in the wilderness.
KU
t
KLUX
KLAN
HE white knights are on the
run. Their flowing robes no
longer present the dignified
. appearance made familiar to
millions of Americans by "The Birth
OPINION
1 1
of A Nation." Instead they stream in The overhead expense is being cared
for by York
the city
and has
state,
but eachthemisc
Since the
New
World
described
ridiculous tatters.
is ended. W e have learned a great racial or national group is expected
exhibit
deal about their Grand Wizard and to defray the expenses of its own
their Kleagles and we know now that
the Klan is a money-making affair
Negroes have been invited to participate a
selling stock based on race prejudice.
all the conferences at which the
plans of the enterprise have been
worked out. The committee on Negro exhi
James Weldon Johnson and as its
Congratulations to the New York secretary, Eugene Kinckle Jones.
World for its wonderful exposure.
The part that the Association took
This committee plans to have a
in the exposure, the assistance that
it was able to give, is told in this continuous exhibit showing the contribution of
number under National Association and labor. On Thursday night,Novem
several hundred voices and an
orchestra
notes.
this time a primer of Negroaccomplishment
"AMERICA'S
M A K I N G "
gain direct information concerning
THEpart which each group has the Negro's worth to America.
had in the development of
this land will be clearly shown
in "America's Making," a
pageant and exhibit which will show
three centuries of racial andimmigrantcontributions to our national
life. From October 29 to November
12, through pageants, festivities and
exhibits, the gift of each race to
The educational value of this exhibit
America will be set forth. Thisdemonstration
is under the
cannot be estimated.
Forgeneralsuperv
a modest
budget of $3000, it is believed that
the committee on the Negro exhibit
can provide a program which will
favorably compare with any other.
L'UNION
CONGOLAISE, BELGIUM
IMPRESSIONS OF THE SECOND PAN-AFRICAN
CONGRESS
JESSIE F A U S E T
i
were there and the men and women of
A f r i c a n blood w h o were at that time
re
dream o f a P a n - A f r i c a n Congress
had already come true in 1919. Y e t it
fearfulT h a t was
thata wwonderful
e ventured meeting.
to realize I it think
afresh
was with hearts half-wondering, half
that at first w e did not realize h o w
wonderful.
1921. So tenuous, so delicate had been its
and Rev. J e r n a g i n o f W a s h i n g t o n presided;
beginnings. Had the black world, although
the second day Dr. D u B o i s and M r . Archer, e x
once stirred by the terrific rumblings o f
necessity those first meetings had to be
the Great W a r , relapsed into its l e t h a r g y ?
hearts. N a t i v e A f r i c a n and native American st
Then out of A f r i c a j u s t before it was time
this is m y l o t ; tell me w h a t is y o u r s ! "
to cross the Atlantic came a letter, one of
The
many, but this the most appealing w o r d
cannot
from the E g y p t i a n S u d a n :
"Sir: We
sum ( $ 1 7 . 3 2 ) , to help toward the expenses
of the P a n - A f r i c a n Congress. Oh Sir, w e
are looking to you f o r we need help s o r e l y ! "
So with this in mind we crossed the seas
not knowing just w h a t would be the plan of
action for the Congress, f o r would not its
members come from the four corners of the
earth and must there not of necessity be
a diversity o f opinion, o f thought, of
was that Ethiopia's sons through delegates
were stretching out their hands from all
over the black and yearning world.
come but we are sending you this sm
M r . H . A . H u n t o f F o r t V a l l e y , Ga., M r .
R. P. Sims o f Bluefield, W . V a . , D r .Wilb
Bainbridge, Ga., R e v . W . H . J e r n a g i n of
Washington, D . C , Dr. H. R. Butler o f
Mr. W h i t e , M r s . Kelley and Miss Fauset—
all these told o f A m e r i c a . A n d in return
Dr. Olaribigbee and M r . T h o m a s o f W e s t
A f r i c a , Mr. A
u g uthe
s t o main
o f L athing,
g o s , Mthe
r s . gDavis
r e a t thi
But
project?
of South A f r i c a , M r . M a r r y s h o w o f
Gre
V a r m a and M r . S a t k a l a v a r a o f India told
the tale o f A f r i c a and o f other countries
of which the A m e r i c a n s k n e w little o r nothing.
II
'"P'HEN
one day, the 27th of A u g u s t , we
met in London in Central Hall, under
the shadow o f Westminster A b b e y . Many
significant happenings had those cloisters
looked down on, but surely on none more
W e listened well.
W h a t can b e m o r e
significant than on this g r o u p of men and
women of A f r i c a n descent, so different in
fascinating than learning at first h a n d that
rearing and tradition and yet so similar
the s t r a n g e r across the seas, h o w e v e r
differ
nohad
difference
o f hfeel
e a r tthe
? irWown
e w e r e community
all one
in purpose.
The rod of the common oppressor
made them
family in London. W h a t small divergences
of
opinion, slight
suspicions,
doubtful
glances there m a y have been at first were
Men f r o m strange and diverse lands
quickly
W e felt o uthe
r
comm
came together. W e were all o f us
foreigners. allSouth
A f rdissipated.
i c a was represented,
Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and L a g o s ,
Grenada,
the United States o f A m e r i c a ,Mart
of E a s t A f r i c a came, yet men w h o had
lived there presented and discussed their
problems.
British Guiana and Jamaica
Out o f the flood o f talk e m e r g e d real
fact
12
and
purpose
f o r the
A m e r i c a ndel
SECOND PAN-AFRICAN
CONGRESS
13
large cities, alive and bustling, with its
o f land but had imminentsomethingelse, the problem o f politica
share of noise. A l l about us were beautiful,
and the heavy and insulting problem of
large buildings and commodious stores,
exce
segregation.
T h e E a s t A f r i c a n , on the
centuries old, recalled the splendor and
dig
other hand, and also the South A f r i c a n had
the shadow o f monarchical government.
no vestige o f a vote ( s a v e in N a t a l ) , had
True London is the heart o f a monarchy,
been utterly despoiled o f the best portions
too, but the stranger does not feel it unless
of his land, n o r could he buy it back. In
he is passing Buckingham Palace o r
watchin
addition to this the E a s t A f r i c a n had to
consider the influx o f the E a s t Indian w h o
m i g h t p r o v e a friend, o r m i g h t prove as
harsh a taskmaster as the E u r o p e a n de­
spoiler.
A t first it was not so noticeable.
W e had been invited b y Paul Otlet and
T h r o u g h the inter-play o f speech and
description
and idea, t w o propositions flashed
Senator
L a F o n t a i n e and had been helped
out—one, the proposition of M r . A u g u s t o ,
greatly by M. Paul Panda, a native of the
a splendid, fearless speaker f r o m L a g o s ,
been educated
in
Belgian Congo w h o had
that the P a n - A f r i c a n Congress shouldaccomplish
something
v e r y concrete.
Belgium. The Congress itself was held in
urged that w e s t a r t with the material in
the marvellous Palais Mondial, the W o r l d
hand and advance to better things.
First
Palace situated in the Cinquantenaire Park.
of all let us begin b y financing the Liberian
W e could not have asked for
a better
loan. Liberia is a N e g r o Independencyalready
founded.
" L e t setting.
us," pl
place,
there
were
many
more
white
first
conscious black world t o w a r d its development."
than colored people—there are not many of
us in Brussells—and it was not long
bef
deeper, m o r e immediately significant than
that o f the white people we had foundelsew
material interests centre in A f r i c a in the
Belgian Congo. A n y interference with the
T h e other proposition was that of M r .
natives might result in an interference with
M a r r y s h o w , o f Grenada, and o f Professor
the sources from which so many Belgian
Hutto o f G e o r g i a . " W e must remember,"
capitalists drew their prosperity.
both o f them pointed out, "that not words
but actions are needed. W e must be
prepared
to put o u r hands in our p o c k e t s
must make sacrifices to help each other.
" T e l l us w h a t to d o , " said M r . Hutto, "and
the Knights o f P y t h i a s of Georgia stand
A f t e r all, who were these dark strangers
ready, 80,000 strong, to do their part."
speaking another tongue and introducing
Heaven only knew w h a t ideas to be
carr
T h o s e w e r e fine, constructive words.
of the strides which colored A m e r i c a had
Then at the last meeting w e listened to
made in education I suggested to M. Panda
the resolutions which Dr. D u B o i s had
that perhaps some A m e r i c a n colored teachers migh
drawn up.
Bold and glorious resolutions
and help with the instruction of the natives.
they were, couched in winged,unambiguousw o r d s .
W i t h o u t a single dissenti
vote the members of the Congress accepted
them.
W e clasped hands with our newly
found brethren and departed, feeling that
n o ! " he Nexclaimed,
add
it was g o c d to be alive and m o s t
wonderful " O h ,tono,b eno,
colored.
o t one o f and
us but
e
never permit that, the colored A m e r i c a n s
n e w and p e r f e c t A f r i c a n brotherhood.
are too malins
(clever)."
Ill
D
O W N to D o v e r we flew, up the English
Channel to Ostend, and thence to
Brussels.
Brussels was different.
H o w shall I
A f t e r we had visited the Congo Museum
we were better able to understand the un­
spoken determination o f the Belgians to let
nothing interfere with their dominion in
the Congo. Such treasures! Suchillim
plainly be f o r them. F o r the first time in
my life I was able to envisage what
explain
it?
T h e city was like mo
14
THE
CRISIS
A f r i c a means to Europe, depleted as she has
There was no doubt but that o u r
assembly
become through the ages by w a r and
famine
and plague. In the museum were th
from the International University g a v e us
seeds of hundreds of edible p l a n t s ; there
a welcome f r o m students of all n a t i o n s ; w e
was w o o d — g r e a t trunks o f dense,finegrainedm a h o g a n y as thick as a man's
were invited to a reception at the Hotel de
is wide and as long as half a N e w Y o r k
Ville ( C i t y H a l l ) in the ancient public
block.
E l e p h a n t s ' tusks gleamed, w h i t e
square, and on the last day General Sorelas
and shapely, seven feet long from tip to
and his beautiful w i f e and daughters received u
base without allowing for the curve, and as
All the
broad through as a man's arm.
A n d yet the shadow of Colonial dominion
wealth of the world—skins and furs, gold
governed. A l w a y s the careful Belgian eye
and copper—would seem to center in the
watched and peered, the Belgian ear
listene
Congo.
m u r m u r of complaint o f Black A f r i c a ,
without
intelligible the greatest set o f w r o n g s
against human beings t h a t the modern
N o r was this all. A r o u n d us in the
spacious
were the
an
world rooms
has known.
W e expression
realized o f ofcourse
earlier but well developed art,wood-carvings
showing
beyondsituation
the shadow
a doubt
how delicate
the Belgian
w a so fand
Dearesthow o fsensitive
all, yet asomehow
leastthe
surprising
to
the inherent artistry of the A f r i c a n .
conscience
nation had
us, was the number of musical instruments.
because of the atrocities o f the Leopold
There is not a single musical instrument
regime.
W e knew the tremendous p o w e r
in the world, I would venture to say, of
of capital organized to exploit the C o n g o ;
which the Congo cannot furnish a prototype. but despite this w e proposed before the
Congress w a s o v e r to voice the w r o n g s o f
Negroes temperately but clearly.
We
assu
Indeed
our hosts in a v e r y literal sense.
as we afterward found, w e were r e c k o n i n g
Native wealth, native art lay about us
without
without our own presiding officer, f o r
in profusion even in the museum.
Small
had undoubtedly felt called on to assure
wonder that the Belgian men and women
the Belgian Government that no " r a d i c a l "
watched us with careful eyes.
step would be taken b y the C o n g r e s s . H e
T h e program in Brussels was naturally
sponsored therefore a mild resolutionsugg
different from that in London. W e
undertook
to learn something o f the culture
Mondial stating that N e g r o e s w e r e "susceptible"
which colored people had achieved in the
the international m o v e m e n t in B e l g i u m .
different parts of the world, but w e hoped
When the London resolutions ( w h i c h are
also to hear of actual native conditions as
published this month as o u r leadingedit
we had heard o f them in thefirstconference.M. Panda spoke o f the generaldevelo
alarmed, and our Belgian visitors w e r e
excited
of the Congolese woman. Miss Fauset told
and f o r a while it looked as t h o u g h the
of the colored graduates in the United
main session o f the P a n - A f r i c a n C o n g r e s s
States and showed the pictures of the first
was destined to end in a r a t h e r disgraceful
women who had obtained the degree of
Doctor
of Philosophy.
Bishop Phillip
row. It w a s here, h o w e v e r , that the American delega
Nashville and Bishop Hurst of Baltimore
DuBois, showed themselves the real
master
greeted the assembly. Mrs. Curtis told of
Liberia, the presiding office
M. Barthelemy from the Pas de Calais, in
the French Chamber o f Deputies, ably assisted.
Belgian officialdom was wellrepresented.General Sorelas of Spain spoke of
problem of the mixed race. A n o t h e r
General,
a Belgian, splendid in ribbons and
orders, was on the platform, and two
members
of the Belgian Colonial Office were
present, "unofficially."
SECOND
PAN-AFRICAN
CONGRESS
and dignified protest, they allowed M .
D i a g n e to " j a m t h r o u g h " his resolutions
and adjourn the session; but they kept their
own resolutions in place before the
Congress
Paris, and they maintained the closing of
the session in Brussels in order and unity.
I suppose the white w o r l d of E u r o p e has
never seen a finer example o f unity and
trust on the p a r t of N e g r o e s toward a
N e g r o leader.
15
to come up for final consideration
B u t we left Belgium in thoughtful and
puzzled mood. H o w g r e a t was this smothering p o w e r which made it impossible f o r
men even in a scientific Congress to be
frank and to express their inmost desires?
N o t one w o r d , f o r instance, had been said
d u r i n g the w h o l e Congress by Belgian
white o r black, o r French presiding officer which w o u l d lead one to suspect that
Leopold and his tribe had ever been other
than the C o n g o ' s tutelary angels.Apparentlynot even an improvement
hinted at. A n d the f e w A f r i c a n s who were
present said nothing.
But at that last
meeting j u s t b e f o r e we left, a Congolese
came f o r w a r d and fastened the button of
the C o n g o Union in D r . D u B o i s ' coat.
What
lay behind
that impassive
could
face?
IV
last P a r i s !
Between Brussels and the queen
city o f the world we saw blasted town, ravaged village and
whose basic motif had been the rape of
A f r i c a . W h a t should we learn of the black
man in F r a n c e ?
At
plain,
ruined
in
a
war
A l r e a d y we had realized that the black
colonial's problem while the sameintrinsically,w o r e on the face o f it a different
M. P A U L P A N D A
was it that we had learned more quickly
organization,
o f frankness,
freedom
o f speech?
and better than they the value o f
Madagascar,
from A n on fa m
.
I looked
at
W e wondered then and we w o n d e r still
that sea of dark faces and my heart was
though Heaven knows in all humility.
moved within me.
H o w e v e r their white
B u t P a r i s at last, with its g l o w and
lights and its indefinable a t t r a c t i o n !
its
overlords or their minions might plot and
plan and thwart, nothing could dislodge
from the minds o f all of them the
knowledge
to black, hands of hope and the promise of
unity though seas and armies divided.
W e met in the Salle des Ingenieurs(Engineers'H a l l ) in little R u e Blanche
o f the Opera.
L o g a n w a s there, Beton
On the platform was, I suppose, theintel
and D r . Jackson, men w h o had worked
To A m e r i c a n eyes and, according to the
p
f a i t h f u l l y and well f o r us even b e f o r e
first, f o r he had first envisaged this
movement
we had come to Paris. A n d around us were
m o r e s t r a n g e f a c e s — n e w types to us—from
Senegal, f r o m the French C o n g o , from
16
THE
CRISIS
not given the right to speak said to m e
the Haitian minister to F r a n c e and
Haitian delegate t o the assembly o f the after hearing D r . D u B o i s ' exposition o f
League o f Nations.
Beside him sat the the meaning and purpose o f t h ePan-Afr
chance to speak t o D r . D u B o i s ? T h e r e is
g r a v e and dignified delegate from the Liga
o f Lisbon, Portugal, a n d o n the much I would tell h i m . "
Africana
other side the presiding officer, M. D i a g n e
c e Guadeloupe.
is a colonial A
pow
e r but
r a n side
c e is
and his colleague, M. Candace, French
deputy F fr raonm
little
to F
one
a republic. A n d so
when o u
resolutions
sat the A m e r i c a n R a y f o r d Logan,assistant
secretary
o rf the
Pan-African C
w e r e presented
once more
this t h e final
at Paris and our interpreter. H i s translations, made
off-hand without
a to
moment's
session o f the P a n - A f r i c a n C o n g r e s s , that
preparation, w e r e a remarkable exhibition.
audience felt that here at last was the
fearless
their hearts, here was comprehension, here
was the translation o f hitherto unsyllabled,
unuttered prayers.
The f e w paragraphs
In the audience besides those faithful
about capitalism M . D i a g n e postponed " f o r
A m e r i c a n delegates* who had followed us
the consideration o f t h e n e x t P a n - A f r i c a n
from London on, were other friends, H e n r y
Congress."
B u t the rest that y e a r n i n g ,
O. Tanner, Captain and Mrs. Napoleon
g r o p i n g audience accepted with their souls.
Marshall, w h o had joined us in Paris,
Bishop and Mrs. Hurst, who had come back
from Brussels t o Paris with us, Captain
The last session o f the last day was over.
and Mrs. A r t h u r Spingarn, white delegates
It was midnight a n d spent and h a p p y w e
from A m e r i c a , who had attended thecosferences
laughed a
found o u r w a y h o m eregularly
t h r o u g h and
the had
streets
worked with us in between whiles.
of Paris which never sleeps.
V
The situation in Paris w a s less tense,
" Y E T after all the real task was a t Gen­
one felt the difference between monarchy
eva. The city struck us dumb a t first
and republic. But again the A m e r i c a n was
its beauty
o f sky and
and water—the
blue
temporarily puzzled. Even allowing for natural with
differences
o f training
tradition,
and white
f the September
heavens
above,
it seemed absurd to have the floor given
repeatedly
to ospeakers
w h o dwelt
on the
Lake Geneva a n d the Rhone R i v e r g l i d i n g
glories o f France and the honor o f being
green and transparent under stone bridges,
a black Frenchman, when what w e and most
black and white swans, red-beaked,floa
of those humble delegates wanted t o learn
above and beyond all in the f a r distance
was about us.
Mont Blanc rising hoary, serene and
majestic
The contrast between the speakers o f the
Eastern and Western hemispheres with
But scant time w e h a d f o r l o o k i n g a t
striking.
but t w o exceptions w a s most
that! The A s s e m b l y o f the L e a g u e o f
Nation
Messieurs Diagne and Candace gave us fine
in process
o f beingprese
resolutions w e r e But
the speeches
o f Dr. DuBois, o
oratory, magnificent gestures—butplatitudes.
Edward Frazier, o f W a l t e r W h i t e , o f D r . here and men o f international name a n d
fame were presiding. H o w w e r e w e to gain
Jackson, o f a young and and fiery Jamaican
audience?
and o f M. Bellegarde, gave facts and food
f o r thought.
T h e exceptions were the
speeches o f M. Challaye, a white member
of the Society for the Defense o f A f r i c a n
Natives, and those o f the grave and courtly
Portuguese,
Messieurs
Magalhaens and
Santos-Pinto.
But this audience was different from that
in Brussells. T o begin with, its members
were mainly black and being black, h a d
suffered. More than one man to w h o m the
unusually autocratic presiding officer had
*A
list
of
t h e delegates
will
be published
later.
Fortunately f o r us Dr. D u B o i s ' n a m e and
reputation proved the open sesame. H e
had not been in t h e city t w o hours b e f o r e
a n d requests f o r interviews
invitations
poured in. One o f o u r staunchest helpers
was a n English w o m a n , L a d y Cecelia, wife
of that Mr. Roberts w h o had worked with
Montague in India. She presided a t meals
at a l o n g table in the dining r o o m o f t h e
Hotel des Familles
and here D r . D u B o i s
was made a welcome guest t h r o u g h o u t h i s
whole stay.
Here came to meet and
SECOND
PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS
17
c o n f e r with him on o u r cause M r . R o b e r t s
Professor M u r r a y writes us, with "quiterem
himself, M r . Lief-Jones, M.P., Professor
year it m a y be quite suitable to put it
Africa
at the A s s e m b l y o f the League o f
Gilbert M u r r a y (representing South
down as a resolution."
S l a v e r y and A b o r i g i n e s ' Protection Society.
M. Bellegarde, Haitian Minister to F r a n c e
VI
and delegate to the A s s e m b l y , w a s also at
that hotel and g a v e us generously of his aid
RESULTS
are hard t o define. But I must
and assistance.
strive to point out a f e w . F i r s t then,
out of these two preliminary conferences o f
1919 and 1921, a definite organization has
evolved,the
t o English
be known
as of
thePan-Af
On M o n d a y night, September 13, Dr. DuBoisbeen
addressed
Club
Geneva
in these pages.
Naturally w o r k i n g with
and conveyed to them some idea of what
people f r o m all over the world, with the
the black world was thinking, feeling and
necessity f o r using at least t w o languages,
doing with r e g a r d to the N e g r o problem.
with the
limited and
detailed
knowledge
people,
thinkers
students
thoughwhich
they
I am sure that m a n y of that g r o u p of
the black foreigner is permitted to get of
were, had never dreamed before that there
A f r i c a and with the pressure b r o u g h t to
m i g h t even be a black point o f view. B u t
bear on many A f r i c a n s to prevent them
they took their instruction b r a v e l y and
from frank
be slow
afterwards thanked Dr. D u B o i s with
shining
eyes speech—action
and w a r m hand must
clasps.
and v e r y careful. It will take years f o r an
institution of this sort to function. But it
is on its own feet n o w and the burden no
Besides meeting and c o n f e r r i n g with
longer is on black A m e r i c a . It must stand
these distinguished personages Dr. D u B o i s
or fall by its own merits.
had luncheon conferences with Rene
Claparede
o f the executive committee o f theSo
Indigenes
and with W i l l i a m R a p p a r d , head
W e have gained proof that organization
of the Mandates Commission of the League
on our part arrests the attention of the
of Nations, a dinner conference with G.
world. W e had no need to seek publicity.
Spiller, f o r m e r secretary of the Races
Congress,
and an interview with A l b e r t T h o m a s ,
If we had wanted to w e could not have
esca
head o f the International Bureau of Labor.
T h e white w o r l d is feverishly anxious to
k n o w o f o u r thoughts, our hopes, our
dreams.
Organization is our
strongest
weapon.
A t the end o f a week of steady driving,
by dint o f interviewing, o f c o p y i n g , o f
translating, o f r e c o p y i n g , w e were ready to
It was especially arresting to notice that
present and did present to Sir E r i cDrummond,secretary
of th
e L e a g uAssembly
e of Na
the P a n - A f r i c a n Congress and
the
o T h e Wmethods.
o r l d (see Neither
a c o p y in French and E n g l i s h of the resolutionsa entitled
page
whit in Tessential
attempted
5) and o f the manifesto (see page 1 8 ) .
activities.
There had to be much talk,
M r . T h o m a s and M. R a p p a r d w h o both
m a n y explanations, an infinity o f time and
heartily endorsed the appointment o f a
patience and then talk again. Neither the
" m a n o f N e g r o descent" to the Mandates
w r o n g s o f A f r i c a nor o f the world, can be
Commission,
Professor
Gilbert
Murray,
righted in a day n o r in a decade. W e can
and M. Bellegarde also received copies.
only make beginnings.
A n d between whiles w e listened to
world s t r i v i n g to r i g h t its w r o n g s at
A s s e m b l y o f the L e a g u e o f Nations.
the
the
T h e most important result w a s our
realization
ahead o f all o f us. W e have g o t to learn
everything—facts about A f rm
i cear, i cthe
difference
O f course w e w e r e at a disadvantagebecauseA
a , not
beingbetw
in
one foreign language at least ( F r e n c h or
Nations, had n o delegate.
B ut P r o f e s s o r
S p a n i s h ) , new points o f view, generosity
M u r r a y suggested to M . Bellegarde, the
of ideal and of act. All the possibilities of
H a i t i a n delegate, that he state the second
alldebate
black men are
to weld
together
resolution (see m a n i f e s t o ) d u r i ng the
on needed
Mandates.
This
he did, as
THE
18
the black men o f the world against the day
when black and white meet to do battle.
God g r a n t that when that d a y comes w e
CRISIS
shall be so powerful that the enemy will
say, " B u t b e h o l d ! these men are o u r brothers."
MANIFESTO T O T H E LEAGUE OF N A T I O N S
T
H E second P a n - A f r i c a n Congress which
labor would be through investigation of
nativ
met in London, Brussels and Paris,
A u g u s t 28, 29 and 31 and September 2, 3,
S e c o n d l y : T h e second P a n - A f r i c a nCon
5 and 6, represented 26 different groups o f
the modern world moves t o w a r dself-governm
people of N e g r o descent: namely, British
and nations and that consequently the
Nigeria, Gold Coast and Sierra L e o n e ; the
mandated areas, being peopled as they are
E g y p t i a n Sudan, British E a s t A f r i c a ,former
r i c a ; Fre
so l a r g e l y by black folk, German
h a v e a E raisgt h tA fto
the French Congo and M a d a g a s c a r ;Belgian
o ; Portuguese St. Thom
ask that a man o f N e gCr oon gdescent,properlyfi
and
Mozambique;
Liberia;
Abyssinia;
Haiti;
British
Jamaica
and
Grenada;
French Martinique and Guadeloupe;BritishGuiana; the United States
Negroes resident in England, France, Belgium and Portugal, and fraternal visitors
from India, Morocco, the Philippines and
T h i r d l y and
finally:
T h e second PanAnnam.
A f r i c a n Congress desires m o s t earnestly
and emphatically to ask the good offices and
careful attention o f the L e a g u e of Nations
to the condition of civilized persons o f
Negro
world today a widespread and g r o w i n g
it is permissible
treat
civilized
differingthat
somewhat
in detail to but
The Congress adopted two sets of resolutionsfeeling
result unanimously
o f this attitude
essentially identical. The first set of resolutionsThe
(adopted
at and
L o n dmoann) y consequent laws,
that a bitter feeling o f resentment,pers
is presented in its original English t e x t ;
the world a m o n g those v e r y persons whose
the second set (discussed at Brussels and
rise is the hope o f the N e g r o r a c e .
adopted unanimously at P a r i s ) is presented
in its original French
text.
The Congress directed its executive
officers
to approach the League of Nations
with three earnest requests, believing that
the greatest international body in the world
must sooner o r later turn its attention to
W e are fully aware that the L e a g u e o f
the great racial problem as it today affects
Nations has little if a n y direct p o w e r to
persons of N e g r o descent.
adjust these matters, but it has the vast
moral p o w e r o f world public opinion and
of a b o d y conceived asks
to p rthat
o m o tin
e peace
and
First:
The second P a n - A f r i c a nCongress
the International
justice
among
men.
F
o
r
this
reason
of Labor a section be set aside to deal
particularly
and in detail with the conditions we
ask and urge that the L e a g u e o f N a t i o n s
and needs o f native N e g r o labor especially
in A f r i c a and in the Islands of the Sea. take a firm stand on the absolute equality
of races and that it s u g g e s t to the
Colonial
P
It is the earnest belief of the Congress
International
Nations the
o r m i n g o f or
an properly
that the labor problems of the world
cannot
be funderstood
settled so
Institute f o r the study o f the N e g r o P r o b ­
long as colored and especially N e g r o labor
lems, and f o r the E v o l u t i o n and Protection
is enslaved and neglected, and that a first
of the N e g r o R a c e .
step toward the world emancipation o f
W . E . BURGHARDT D u B o i s ,
Geneva, September 15, 1921.
Secretary.
WATCHING
A BASEBALL
GAME AT T H E
CRESCENT
STARS
AMUSEMENT
BASEBALL
PARK,
NEW
ORLEANS
A N E W ORLEANS BASEBALL PARK
a search for suitable grounds which colored peo
Cohen, a Negro, who assisted not only with
his broad experience, but also with his
influence with the city authorities.
A Board of Directors was formed, consisting o
bought at least $1,000 worth of stock. Mr.
Wallace C. Marine was elected president;
Mr. F. V. Fauria, treasurer, and Mr. C. C.
Uejoie, secretary. Other members of the
Board of Directors are: Messrs. Walter L.
Cohen, Dr. P. H. V. Dejoie, AlbertWork
J. Bigard, Joseph W. Elliott, Edward E.
Woodruff, George Andre, ArnoldDufourch
Dr. F. T. Jones.
After a capital stock of $25,000 had been
subscribed by the members of the Board of
Directors, the common stock was opened to
the public, and $45,000 was subscribed, the
shares being $50 each.
The ground has been named The Crescent
Stars' Amusement Baseball Park. The site
W A L L A C E C. M A R I N E
is situated in the Seventh Ward, which is
N E G R 0 E S
better known as the downtown or Creole
Orleans have developed
a liking for picnics, fairs and
District—-"Faubourg Treme." It is four
baseball games.
For these amusements squares from St. Bernard Boulevard, which
they were compelled to use the
Fair is one
Grounds,
which is thoroughfares
owned and controlled
in New by
of the prettiest
white people. The owners charged the
colored
people enormous prices for rental, and
Orleans.
would not permit them to rent the ground
on holidays, and seldom on Sundays.
i n
N
e
w
The Park was planned and built by
Negro
Club, of which Mr. Marine is the Manager,
is a great attraction. The park has a
seating
any time for a nominal sum.
This state of affairs became aggravated
when a committee of colored men planned
an affair for July 4. They succeeded in
renting the grounds, paying the required
deposit, and began their advertising. When,
however, the owners realized that they had
New Orleans, therefore, can well boast
people for July
they is
revoked
colored
inadvertently rented the grounds to
of her amusement
place 4,which
owned,the
privilege, and only through the services of
controlled and operated solely by Negroes.
a lawyer were the Negroes given satisfaction. This enterprise is but one of the many
indications of the new spirit which is gradually inv
Mr. Wallace C. Marine, thereupon, began
20
Nationalassociationforthe
Advancement of Colored-People.
THE 24TH INFANTRY PRISONERS
We are a delegation representing the
50,000 signers of this petition which we
Wednesday, September 28, a
delegation
30 leading
colored you,
menand
andwe
On
have theofhonor
to lay before
women, headed by James Weldon Johnson, come not only as a representative of those
who signed the petition, but we are
spokesmen
Secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., had an
or more of Negro
citizens
of the
Unitedpersons,
audience with President Harding and
presented
a
petition,
signed
by
50,000
States.
asking for the pardon of the 61 soldiers of
as ayou
result
rioting
Leavenworth
the 24th Infantry who are confined in
The petition,
will of
note,
asks in
forHouston,
their
previous
re
pardon on three grounds: first, the
Texas, in August, 1917.
the provocation of local animosity which
manifested itself in insults, threats and
acts of violence against colored soldiers;
third, the heavy punishment meted out to
In the delegation with Mr. Johnson, or members of the 24th Infantry of whom 19
lending their names to it, were the Hon. were hanged, 13 of them summarily and
Mr. Archibald Grimke, president of the without right of appeal to the Secretary
Washington Branch; Major R. R. Moton, of War or to the President, theirCornmander-in-C
shocked the entire country and appeared
principal of Tuskegee Institute; R. S. to the colored people to savor of vengeance
Abbott, editor of the Chicago Defender; rather than justice. Sixty-one members of
serving
Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the the 24th Infantry are still in prison
Secretary of War during the World War;
Prof. George W. Cook and Kelly Miller, of
Howard University; Robert R. Church,coloredRepublican leader in Te
Charles E. Bentley, of Chicago; Miss
Nannie
H. Burroughs; Mrs. Mary B. Talbert,
honorary president of the NationalAssociation
Colored Women's
Clubs; M
Contrary to all ofprecedent,
the provost
Mary Church Terrell; Mrs. Alice Dunbar guard of this colored regiment had been
insult
Nelson, Harry H. Pace, John Hope, the disarmed in a state and in a city where
daily experience. Following a long series
Hon. Mr. J. C. Asbury, memberPennsylvania
Harry
E. Davis,
of humiliatingLegislature;
and harassing
incidents,
one membe
of the Ohio Legislature; Drs. William H. soldier was brutally beaten and a wellbel
Washington and W. W. Wolfe, of Newark, woman by local policemen. The report
spread amongGa.;
the James
regiment
N. J.; the Rev. Mr. R. H. Singleton, of
Atlanta,
A. that
Cobb,theirnoncommi
counsel for the
had been killed. Whatever acts may have
N. A. A. C. P., and John R. Hawkins,financial
secretary
of not
the A.
been committed by these
men were
the M. E. C
result of any premeditated design.
The
men were goaded to sudden and frenzied
action. This is borne out by the long
recor
part of this regiment throughout its whole
history up to that time.
Mr. Johnson in presenting the petition
said:
white citizensofofColored
Moreover, although
As Secretary of the NationalAssociation
for the Advancement
Houston were involved in these riots and
composed of persons and representatives
of bodies deeply concerned for America's the regiment to which these men belonged
good name, I have the honor to present a was officered entirely by white men, none
but Negroes, so far as white
we have
ablepraying
petition signed by 50,000 Americancitizens,
andbeen
black,
to learn, have ever been prosecuted or
exercise executive clemency, and pardon
punished. In consequence, the wholesale
the 61 members of the 24th U. S. Infantry
soldiers
now in the Federal Prison at Leavenworth, punishment meted out to these colored
Kansas, convicted on charges of rioting at visitation upon their color rather than upon
their crime. The attention of coloredpeo
Houston, Texas, in August, 1917.
21
22
THE CRISIS
focussed upon the action which it may Association's attention was called to the
please you to take.
fact that the Klan was using an address
In consideration, therefore, of the almost in New York in an attempt to recruit members. Th
five years already served in prison by the
to record
the New
to
the city officials
61 men and of the foregoing facts, and
because
of thebutlong
for York
bravery,d
World, and to
thetheKlan's
representative
was
crisis of the nation, we bespeak your
attention
petition
which we beg
here
traced to the Army and Navy Club in New
York.
Meanwhile, through press stories sent
broadcast throughout the country, by mass
The President promised to review the meetings and magazine articles, the Associatio
testimony in the cases of the soldiers and to of the Klan. So well and so thoroughly
take the request made in this important pe­ was this work done that the Searchlight,
tition under advisement. Mr. Johnson also published in Atlanta as the organ of the
made reference to the gratification of the Klan, called the National Association for
colored people that the government through the Advancement of Colored People its most
dangerousKufoe;
denunciation of the
two channels was investigating the
nefarious
Kluxand
Klan.
Klan began to be heard not only from the
pulpit but in the editorial columns of the
FIGHTING TREASON
most reputable white southern newspapers.
Among the agencies which denounced the
HE treason which consists ofcommercializedrace hatred and masquerades
Klan in the South were the inter-racialcom
as Americanism has found a dangerousantagonistin the National Associatio
of the Confederacy in Virginia.
Advancement of Colored People. For more
than a year the Association has fought the
Ku Klux Klan with the weapons of
publicity
and fact-telling, until such a
po
In September, 1921, the New York World,
New York World became convinced of the
after
an exhaustive
began
necessity of taking up the fight. The
in theinvestigation,
expose
World has torn
the alast r
secrecy off the Klan's mummery and it is series of twenty articles upon the Ku Klux
Klan. Not only was it shown that the
shown to be the lowest and vilest sort of
Ne
money-making scheme conducted by those Klan was attempting to suppress the
who are ready to play upon prejudices of anti-Catholic propaganda of a mostvir
Japanese
and Jews.
against
any and every sort for their own advantage.prejudice
This expose
travelled
the length
and The
Klan was
shown of
to powerful
be bound newspapers.
by un
American
in dozens
breadth of the United States, being
reprinted
To the World, the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People had
the privilege of contributing information
which was publicly acknowledged in the
World's articles. The National Association
two months before the articles began to
the disposal of a representative of the
Even before the election of 1920, in which
World. Lists of the atrocities attributed
r.he Ku Klux Klan attempted to intimidate
to the Ku Klux Klan were published in the
colored voters, the National Association
World, and public acknowledgment by the
for the Advancement of Colored People
Klan of its responsibility in a number of
was endeavoring to obtain facts about these
cases.
bed-sheet heroes. An officer of theAssociationdiscovered, when he was invi
join the Klan under the mistakenimpressionthat he was a white man, th
Klan intended to organize in New York
City. The attention of the New YorkPoliceDepartment, the May
menace and both the Mayor and the District Attorney assured the people of New
York that the Klan would not be permitted
within the city's limits. Subsequently, the
The personal lives of the leaders of the
Klan, who pretended to be leading in a
ca
the World published the fact that two of
the leaders of the Klan had been arrested
in a disorderly house in Atlanta and fined,
T
N. A. A. C. P.
23
one of those arrested being the chief woman
in the Klan.
a report on the Klan, and William J. Burns,
head of the Federal secret service, turned
over such a report to President Harding.
To such an extent was the NationalAssociationfor the Advancement of Colo
People useful in exposing the Klan, that
THE ARKANSAS CASES
the Klan actually attempted to employ a
The fight still goes on in the Arkansas
traitorous colored man to create dissension
in theinAssociation's
ranks.
former
executed
September are
still A
alive.
Klansman, C. Anderson Wright, writing in
the New York American, of September 16,
An appeal to the Governor for reprieve
spoke of this dastardly attempt as follows: was unsuccessful. Then our attorneys applied for
stay to the execution. On learning that the
Another subject of serious discussion was writ of certiorari could not be obtained
the realization that the power of the Negro in time to stop the execution, as the judges
society, known as the Society for the Advancement
of Colored
people,not
wasbebecoming
of the Federal
Court would
in Washington
a great menace in the expansion of the Ku
application was made for a writ of habeas
Klux Klan, as it was continually giving to corpus. This was granted and maderetur
the press publicity on the Klan'sunderhandedmethods. This society was getting
active in State Legislative work, having
already succeeded in having introduced by
a Negro legislator from Chicago, a bill
denouncing
the Klan in the IllinoisLegisla
from joining or associating in any manner
On
Tuesday,
September 27, a telegram
with the Ku Klux Klan.
was received, stating that the writ was
sustained
Evidence is now in hand which should
have large weight towards securing the
This activity on the part of the Negro, freedom of the prisoners who are yet to
in the judgment of Clarke, warranted
come to trial and which will favorably affect the
prompt action, and it was decided to set up
The other cases will be tried in Marianna,
a rival organization to the Society for the
the near
will
be the
Advancement of Colored People without delay. Ark.,
Clarkeinbegan
withfuture.
a NegroThis
in his
own
first opportunity to use the new evidence.
employ, a man of unusual intelligence, who
was in charge of the servants on his farm
The Association is leaving no stone
unturned
on the outskirts of Atlanta. This servant these men.
enlisted the services of other Negroes as
spies, and they attended the meetings of
the society and reported everything that
was said and done. Also, these spies sought
We urgently appeal for contributions to
to create dissatisfaction and discord among the Arkansas Defense Fund to meet this
the members of the society.
critical moment in the defense of these
innocent
It is, therefore, established, practically
conclusively, that the Klan has actually
CERTIFICATE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
been driven to employ spies to try to
create At dissension
in the
National itAssociation
the Atlanta
Conference
was voted
for the Advancement of Colored People. The
that an attorney be employed by the
Association is gratified at the Klan's lack
Association who should give his whole time
of success and feels this attention on the to its work. It was thought that such an
part of the Klan to be a tribute to its
effectiveness
fighting the Ku
Klan's
arrangement, insupplementing
the Klux
voluntary
treason to the principles upon which the service of the Legal Committee of theAssoc
American State rests.
Following the exposure of the Ku Klux
Klan's hypocrisy and treason, the National
Association appealed to President Harding
in a telegram urging his endorsement of a
complete Federal investigation of the
Klan's activities and Congressional action
should that prove necessary.
At about
that time, Attorney General Daugherty
ordered the Department of Justice to make
At the Detroit Conference it was voted
that as soon as the Association found
itself
be done towards organization in all sections
of the country.
The Association so far has found itself
unable to carry out these recommendations
and also unable to do many other things
24
THE CRISIS
that it would like to enter upon because of
1919 Drive22,8751920 (no drive held)
lack of funds. One dollar from its
members
will not furnish sufficient revenue to
do the work which needs to be done. It 1921 Drive:—
has not been our good fortune to secure New members gained. . 44,200
New branches organized but we37
hope that the hab
many bequests from our well-to-docitizens,
Branches o v e r 1,000
soon be established. Over 90 percent of
13
members now
our support comes from colored people, and
Branches o v e r 1,000
members before the
it is well that this should be so; but most
3
Drive
of these are One Dollar members. It is
Branches over 500 mem­
because One Dollar a year will not furnish
18
bers now
sufficient means, that the branches are now
Branches over 500 mem­
being urged to conduct some time in October
7
bers before the Drive
or November a one-week CertificateMembershipRECEIPTS
Drive. In every branch there
Receipts from the Drive
$28,243.53
persons whose means are such that they
DISBURSEMENTS
should donate each year to the Association
Printing
$1,668.84
$25, $50, $100, or more. Almost every Buttons
822.92
member in all our branches can. without Salaries
996.46
600.00
undue sacrifice, become either a Gold or a Postage
Blue Certificate member. The Gold
Certificate
at $10 a year means the spending of
$6,284.11
less than 20c per week for the work of
securing
justice for our group. The Blue
Sales of buttons and lit­
Certificate at $5 a year means spending
erature
1,360.12
less than 10c per week for this end. None
Net disbursements
of our members is so poor that he
cannot
afford, if he would, 20c or$ 4,923.99
10c a week.
This is very little to pay for liberty.
Net receipts from the
Drive
$23,319.54
THE CASE OF HARLEM HOSPITAL
ARLEM HOSPITAL is one of the
units under the control of Bellevue
and Allied Hospitals' Association—themu
City.
H
One Dollar members may become Gold
or Blue Certificate members by paying $9
or $4, respectively. It is hoped that every
branch will enter this one-week intensive
campaign. The pioneer in this idea is our
branch at Florence, S. C , in which a large
proportion of the members are certificate
members.
Harlem has 150,000 colored people, and
the hospital from its location is fitted to
serve their needs.
But there have been so many rumors
and statements of alleged graft,mistrea
Harlem Hospital that the colored residents
prefer to go to any other hospital in the
city. It is significant that the 109th Street
The one-week intensive drive is to beconducted
primarily
perwithin
cent, the
of bra
Hospital states that twenty
every branch take as its motto: One Hundredtheir
Percent
total Certificate
admissionsMembership!
are colored, and that
eighty per cent, of these are from Harlem.
The Presbyterian and St. Luke's Hospitals
also have an unusually large percentage of
DRIVE OF THE N. A. A. C. P.
E have had many queries concerning colored admissions. These are all out of
d
the final drive report. We are herewith
theprinting
colored it.district.
At the same
In spite
timeofwetheir
wish
to congratulate the branches on the
splendid
they Harlem
did under
the very
patientswork
of the
Hospital
are adverse
colored.
circumstances produced by the economic depression.
W
It will be of interest to review at the
same time the previous drives of the Asso­
ciation.
Moorfield Storey Drive (1918), new
membership gained
26,916
In January, Mr. Cosmo O'Neil, the Superint
been notably fair in his attitude towards
colored people and who had placed colored
physicians on the hospital staff, was
de
N. A. A. C. P.
26
Alderman George W. Harris, deeming it colored committee, the consultants of the
necessary to have a friend of the colored American Hospital Association are alleged
people at Bellevue, and feeling that the to have offered, after the second hearing,
demotion was not the result of anyincompetency,
took up
the hospital
matter ifwith
to secure a $2,000,000
Negro
the Mayo
Hylan, seeking the reinstatement of Mr. matter would be dropped.
O'Neil. At this time, it was thought well
The committee is reported to have
replied
to bring up the matter of the treatment
doctors
of colored patients at Harlem Hospital and the rights of colored patients, nurses,
and not in securing a segregatedinstitu
to seek a remedy.
Harlem Medical Association, the
organization
and pharmacists, who fully endorsed their
fight and employed a Morton,
special investigator
Mr. Harris, Dr. Allen B. Graves,Attorney
and Mr. Walter
assistant secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., and two attorneys to help in the matter.
Mr. William
Colson
was to
employed
as theinvestig
formed a committee representing the
colored
citizens N.
who
sought
reinstate
superintendent, but without success. After Ferdinand Morton as counsellors. All of
meeting with the Board, who pushed aside these did excellent work.
their requests, the committee then brought
before the Mayor a mass of data they had
collected concerning alleged graft,mistreatmentand shameless neglect of colored
patients.
It was made clear that the crux of the
The Mayor appointed Commissioner of whole question is the admission of colored
Accounts Hirschfield to hear the complaints, nurses and internes. The strong objection
and the defense. Five hearings in all were —it is alleged—is based on the necessary
held. A mass of evidence was produced in social intermingling this would entail.
The entire matter is not yet settled, but
the form of sworn affidavits and personal
witnesses, charging the hospital authorities there have been certain importantimme
with grave offenses against colored patients.
1. Bellevue and Allied Hospital Boards,
together with the local board of Harlem Hosp
The committee averred that these conditions colored
only could
be remedied
the
presence
physicians
are by
determined
to
and Surgical Board of Harlem Hospital,
fight for their full rights.
and made as its minimum demand that
there be appointed two such members, and
that visiting physicians with the full rights 2. Two physicals who were in theMed
of the hospital and visiting surgeons with
transferred to the Surgical Out-patient
full rights to the hospital be appointed.
Department—a promotion. These are
Dr. Louis T. Wright and Dr. Douglass
Johnson. Two other physicians have
appointed
in the
Commissioner Hirshfield had the hospital been
records
of January
andMedicalOut-pa
Februaryexam
and Dr. Ralph Young.
that forty-six per cent, of all admissions
were colored, he stated that it was but fair
that colored people have representation on
3. Two others have been permitted to work
the Board.
in the hospital, Dr. Ernest Alexander
in the Skin Department and Dr. Vernon
Much publicity was given the hearings
Ayer in the X-Ray Department.
through the reports in the New York News,
the Harlem Home News, and the New York 4 Colored Red Cross nurses have been
permitte
Tribune.
As a result of the pressure occasioned 5. The hospital also has promised to admit
colored nurses.
by the publicity given to the work of the
Men of the Month.
O
Jer
volunteer ofsocial
service worker
in New
N October 1, 1888, during theadministration
Lord Sackville
West, Charles
born
in
Washington,
D.
C
,
44
years
ago,
Fleurence Meline Browne enter.d the
service
of the Chancery of the British Emb
b e i n g the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
He has served as a messenger and clerical
Brooks. She served as a clerk to thesuper
assistant through the administrations of
and was for several years a supervisor of
Lord Paunceforte, Sir Michael Herbert, Sir
first year work in the public schools of
Mortimer Durand, Viscount Bryce, Sir
Washington.
Attorney
Eugene Sir
Cecil A. Spring-Rice, Lord Reading, Sir
Edward
GreyShe
andmarried
the present
incumbent,
M. Gregory, a graduate of HarvardUniv
Auckland Geddes, a period of 33 years.
Jersey and New York.
The Order of the British Empire was
the most popular medals given by the
Crown. Mr. Browne is the first Negro, and
one of the few persons in the United States,
to be awarded this medal.
Mr. Browne was born in Washington, D.
C , December 24, 1871. He studied in the
public schools of the District of Columbia
and was graduated from the law school of
Howard University in 1898.
created
King George
in 1917
and is one o
Among Mrs.byGregory's
activities
in NewJersey W e r e the offices of vice-president of
the Newark Branch of the NationalAssoc
the New J e r s e y Federation of ColoredWom
and the Colored Mission of the Diocesan
Auxiliary of the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine, and a director of the Music School
Settlement.
T
HE late Dr. Samuel John Ross was
president of the College of West Africa,
A scholarship in memory of Mrs.
Gregory
Liberia.
He was born in British Guiana,
Training and Industrial School for Colored
South America, September 19, 1880. In 1902
Youth at Bordentown, N. J., by the
Federati
he came to the United States and entered
Lincoln University, where he was given
the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and
Bachelor
of Divinity in 1907. He was president
medals forwas
oratory.
and valedictorian of his class and the
winner
of three gold
A U R E L I O EDUARDO
BERMUDEZ
1908 he matriculated at the College of
Physicians
and was
born inand
the Surgeons,
Province in
of Chicago,
Colon, August
graduated in 1912 with honors.
1, 1893. He joined the police force when
fourteen years of age, being the youngest
member of that body, and became attached
to the Bureau of Investigation.
He is
In 1913 Dr. Ross married Miss Pearl F. known as the only finger-print expert in
Thomasson, of Chicago, and during the year
Central America.
they sailed for Porto Rico, where Dr. Ross
In 1912 Mr. Bermudez was appointed
did interne work at Yauco. He practiced
Chief of the Investigation Bureau of the
medicine in the United States from 1915-'18;
City of Colon, with the rank ofSub-Lieutena
then he was appointed Medical Missionary
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, last
to Liberia by the Board of Foreign Missions
October. In January of this year he was
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Under
appointed Captain of the InvestigationDepa
Africa
grew
fromCaptain
an enrollment
of 250 to
his administration the College of West
and only
Negro
on the Isthmus.
-356. In collaboration with Mrs. Ross, a
Y. W. C. A., a Y. M. C. A „ and an athletic
association were established, being the first
of their kind in Liberia.
"Fifty
years ago, David JonathanPhi
College and the Pharmacy School of the
""THE late Mrs. Musette Brooks Gregory
of Newark. N. J., was a prominent
26
CHARLES
F.
M.
A.URELIO
BROWNE
DR.
THE
LATE
DR.
SAMUEL
J.
ROSS
DAVID
J.
E.
BERMUDEZ
PHILLIPS
THE
LATE
MRS.
MUSETTE
B.
GREGORY
THE CRISIS
28
Dr,
Darrington
Weaver
Dr.
Harvey
A.
Murray
Dr.
T.
E.
Stevens
Dr.
Douglas
B.
Johnson
N St. Louis, Mo., Dr. Darrington Weaver
Public Hospital, in Kingston, and wasappointedresident
at the Falm
received the appointment of dispenser
CityPost-M
Public Hospital. After three years he
resigned
from
Government
service
and
establishe
per year. Dr.
Weaver
was born
in Hearne,
Spring. He came to the United States and
Texas, December 31, 1889. He was
graduated
fro
enrolled, in 1894, at the Medical Chirugical
College of Philadelphia, from which he was
graduated in 1898, as the winner of the
Spencer Morris Special Prize of $100 for the
MEMBER of the Board of Health at
best examination in medical jurisprudence
Wilmington, Del., is Dr. HarveyAl
d Examination,m
and toxicology. He passed thePennsylvaniaMedical
State Boar
staff of the Babies' Hospital
and
Day
Nursery.
time. Then he studied in Canada, where November 8, 1891. He is a graduate of the
he was graduated from the Medical School Medical School of Howard University, 1913.
of the University of Bishop's College, taking with first honors the degrees of M.D.,
CM. Later, in London, he passed the
examination
of the Royal College of Surgeons
and Physicians, and was awarded the
degrees
of M.R.C.S. (England), and L.R.C.P.
(London). He has served as assistant physician at the Royal South London Opthalmic
R. T. E. STEVENS was born in Tuskegee, Al
Hospital and as an assistant at the Royal
Victoria Nose and Throat Hospital. In graduated from Meharry Medical College.
1917 he was elected a member of the City In Tennessee, he has served as a member of
the Board of Health, at Jellico, and of the
Council of Kingston.
Board of Aldermen, at Cleveland.
I
A
D
In 1914 Dr. Douglas B. Johnson was graduated from
College of Medicine. He passed the
Virginia
was born February 19, 1888, in Petersburg,
Va., where he was one of the founders of
the William A. Crowder MemorialHosp
in America and abroad. Dr. Johnson is a
While in Philadelphia, Dr. Phillips was member of the Visiting Staff of the Harlem Hosp
New York City.
Hospital and chairma
resident physician at the FrederickDouglassMemorial
the Board of Trustees of Zion Baptist
Church. He was a founder of the Banneker
Building and Loan Society, and is still its
president.
TheLookingGlass
mummy with hands upraised, symbolizing
the self-emancipation of that race from
ignorance into educated, self-reliantcitiz
is being modelled at the artist's Boston
studio and will be life size.
LITERATURE
My Race
Y life were lost, if I should keep
M
A hope-forlorn and gloomy face,
And brood upon my ills, and weep
And mourn the travail of my race.
Mrs. Fuller is a pupil of Rodin and
was educated at the Philadelphia Academy
of Fine Arts.
Who are my brothers? Only those
Who were my own complexion swart?
Ah no, but all through whom there flows
The blood-stream of a manly art.
FAR
Wherever the light of dreams is shed,
And faith and love to toil are bound,
There will I stay to break my bread,
For there my kinsmen will be found.
LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL, in
FLUNG
PROPAGANDA
EVEN
Denmark has been penetrated by
anti-American Negro propaganda. The
"Birth of a Nation" has lifted up its ugly
lying head in Copenhagen. Fortunately for
us Edward Franklin Frazier, who is now
studying at the University of Copenhagen,
was there to protest and to publish the
main facts of Reconstruction in theCopenh
his
"Wings of Oppression."
* * *
Lyman Abbott writes in The Independent
of Booker T. Washington:
Mr. Frazier protests against thehistor
Only once did I ever know him to "let
himself go." This was at the graduating
exercises at Hampton Institute. He and I
A young American student of Negro
descent,
spoke on that occasion on the same platform.
The senior
certainly—if
my
of the class
American
fellowship
Scandinavian
memory serves me right, all the Institute Foundation
(Niels-Poulsen Foundation),
students—were gathered on this platform, has sent us the following:
wnile the visitors, mostly white, were
seated
upon the floor of the great building.
I write the following criticism of the
The speaker's task was a difficult one. He
film,
"The
Birth of a Nation," merely in the
had to stand at one side between the two
audiences and play the part of Mr. "Facing- defense of truth. The film might be allowed
Both-Ways." Mr. Washington turned first to pass as any other piece offictionlacking-realismbut
toward one, then toward the other, of the substantiation and its veiled attack upon a
two audiences as he spoke. He appealed to righteous cause and the race that benefitted
byrespect
the triumph of
of that
theircause.
white neighbors, not by
the members of his race to secure the
eloquent portrait of what the race had done
After
the
recent
World
War the South,
since emancipation to justify self-respect
he swung himself around as on a pivot and, fearing that the Negroes because of their
speaking with unaccustomed vehemence to part in the struggle would thereafterres
Klan. Even in the Southern States the
the white portion of his audience, cried
idea of a secret organization dispensing
out: "I tell you, we are as proud of our
race as you are of yours." It was like a justice was opposed by some citizens. In
ordered
flash from a before silent and supposedly the city of New York the police were
unloaded gun. How the Negroes on the Klan as other criminals. In spite of this
opposition an attempt was made to
popularize
platform cheered him!
educative force in America—the moving
picture. Where the picture was shown,
riots generally resulted not only because
of the resentment on the part of Negroes
but also because of the infuriated ignorant
whites. The picture is barred from some
* * *
cities while in other cities it is only
permitted
America's Making News tells of the piece real artistic setting, this picture has come
to Europe
to poison
minds ofunsuspec
of art to be exhibited by Meta Warrick
Fuller
at the
comingtheexposition,
"America's
Making."
Mrs. Fuller is now at work on a
commission
given by the Negro Group. She. is
designing a statue which will be in the
centre
of the Negro exhibit, showing a fem
figure emerging from the wrappings of a
29
THE CRISIS
30
The most serious indictment against the certain positions in order to free themselves
from foreign
picture is that it falsifies history and
glorifies
the tutelage.
most notorious band of crimin
Such was the proved
basic idea
first
Panin American history. Congressionalinvestigations
that of
thea Ku
Klux
Klan
African Congress
heldinnocent
in ParisNegroes
in 1919but
ana als
a dangerous band of criminals bent on
murdering
not only
conscientious whites, who sought to erect presided over by M. Diagne, the French
Deputy from Senegal andhighCommissioner
political institutions on the ruins of the
there were present at these meetingsdel
slave oligarchy. Nowhere can one find
either in written records or tradition the over the g l o b e great majority of the
delegates came, however,
from
during
Reconstruc
crimes charged in the picture againstNegroes
the America
where there are at present 12 millions of
never dominated the legislature of any
60years ago who,
state during the Reconstruction Period. Negroes emancipated
aided by the United States, have continued
Only once and then for only two years in
the Lower House in South Carolina did the to work out their intellectual, economic and
Negroes outnumber the whites; the ratio political emancipation. There are several
being 3:2 and not as the picture charges financial institutions in America, founded
and run by Negroes,
the b
more than 5:1. Laws permittingintermarriage
could and
not the
havefortune
been of
passed
Negroes even then, for the whites always blacks in the United States is estimated at
taken
similar
development
picture
had an overwhelming majority in the Upper 5 billions.
Chamber. A The
does nothas
show
the fact that Negroes established the first place in the intellectual and educational
aw
free public school system in the South. Nor fields. Negroes have created over there,
only
andgranted
even atheuniversity
South
do we find in it the fact thatsuffrage—restricted—wasnot
Negroes attended
until
the bv
members of their own race so that today
subterfuges as: A Negro found without
the American
Negroes
havefor
reallyaccom
suitable employment shall be hired
preferably
to his former
master
his board
and lodging; and a Negro impudent to a
white by word or gesture is guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall be returned to his
master on the same terms.
These colored men, to use a currentexp
the world, and who found themselves during t
of a sacred cause, finally felt the desire to
found a native organization—that is to say,
they asked themselves what, after all, was
their original country, and if they should
not lay claim to it and show that by their
efforts to emancipate themselves, they had
conquered the right to aspire to the
obtainm
hadbecause
not been,
as itoffense
were, to
allowed
to
Griffith's other play was barred, I understand,
it gave
Germany.
But, alas! the Negro is the defenseless
victim of lies and can only appeal to the
conscience of mankind. I address these
remarks
to the good people of Copenhagen
because the world has suffered so much by
This original country, according to them,
ignoring the mandate of the Man who said
is Africa. Hence this Pan-AfricanCo
nearly 2,000 years ago: "Ye shall know the in Paris revealed the means of civilization
truth and the truth shall make you free." and of emancipation possessed by these
colo
The movement is very interesting to
study. Those who are engrossed with the
THE
Belgian L'Exportateur Beige writes question of the future and the evolution
of a race that was formerly
badlyRayf
of the sessions of the Pan-AfricanCongress
held in rather
Brussels.
treated and—as History tells us—for a
translates:
long time held in the bonds of slavery are
beginning to have that idea.
The promoters of the first Congress are
After contributing with their well-known
courage and self-sacrifice to the operations planning to hold a second session in Brussels.
of war that finally assured once more the
maintenance of threatened civilization, the
Negroes, fighting in the ranks of the
various
allied armies,
began toVIOLENCE
reflect in the
CONCERNING
MOB
different parts of Europe where they were
The
Indianapolis
News
of
Indiana
in contact with a way of living and of
organizing
life totally unfamiliar to tells
them,
and said to one another, that it would
perhapsus: be well to study, in their turn, the
means of creating a mode of living similar
One cannot read the papers even in the
to that in Europe and at the same time most casual way without being impressed
of qualifying themselves to fulfill, like the and shocked by the growing popularity of
whites, certain functions and to occupy
lynch law in this country. Whether the
and feathered, burned at the stake or
hanged, the act is, in essence, lynching­
FROM
BRUSSELS
THE LOOKING GLASS
t h o u g h perhaps not technically so. F o r it
is the execution o f a sentence passed b ,
those w h o have no r i g h t to pass it, and the
" l a w " e n f o r c e d is nothing more than the
will or w h i m o f those w h o set themselves
up as the guardians o f w h a t is s u p p o s e d by the guardians—to be the public welfare.
* * *
T o which the Rochester, N . Y . , Herald
adds:
Racial r a n c o r and anciently implanted
antipathies are not peculiar to any section
o r limited b y climatic or political bounda­
ries, if recent happenings are to be taken
as evidence. Even the rockribbed conserva­
tism of N e w E n g l a n d seems not to be proof
against the l y n c h i n g f e v e r when the neces
sary incentive is applied.
:
*
* *
T h e Buffalo, N. Y . , Evening
Times gives
us the following thoughts on mob violence,
and points out the w a y to stop it.
T h e "authorities" in the various com­
munities seem to be paralyzrd with fright
o r incapacity, and indeed in some instances
show a disposition entirely in sympathy
with the mobs.
T h e thing is getting to be a fashion. Cus­
tom soon becomes law. It is a serious sit­
u a t i o n ; but it raises a question still more
serious,—are w e degenerating as a people,
or are w e merely s h o w i n g ourselves in our
true c o l o r s ? T h e w a r has torn the masks
from m a n y nations. Is its influence divest­
ing us o f a masquerade?
W h e t h e r these queries are answered in
the affirmative or the negative, one thing
is certain—this w a v e of lawlessness could,
and can, be stopped forthwith by those w h o
have been sworn to uphold the law. I f the
President o f the United States were to is­
sue a proclamation denouncing "lynch l a w "
and directing the A t t o r n e y General's De­
partment to pursue and punish with merci­
less severity within the Federal jurisdic­
tion e v e r y person convicted of participation
in such outrages, and if the President would
further appeal to the Governors o f the vari­
ous States to follow his example with simi­
lar proclamations and direction? to the
District A t t o r n e y s of all counties in the
different Commonwealths, the c o w a r d l y and
dastardly
" l y n c h i n g p a r t i e s " would in­
stantly seek cover after the fashion of such
g r e g a r i o u s assassins.
*
* *
T h r o u g h the Herald,
o f Erie, Pa., we
learn:
Massachusetts and Tennessee, a northern
and a southern st'-ite, have just been fur­
nishing commendable illustrations o f h o w
to prevent lynching. T h e y have both dem­
onstrated that m o b violence cannot prevail
w h e r e the constituted authorities are pos­
sessed o f the moral c o u r a g e and the will to
suppress it.
Barnstable and K n o x v i l l e were fortunate
in the possession o f resolute officials at a
31
time when c o u r a g e and resolution were
most needed. In the Massachusetts case
the mob displayed the usual mob character­
istics and cowered when it saw itself op­
posed by armed authority.
A t Knoxville
a little blood-letting was found necessary,
but the mob did not stand f o r much of it
and has probably learned its lesson.
Promptness and energy in the suppres­
sion o f lawlessness is always effective.
In­
decision and a disposition to compromise
with the mob spirit always encourages vio­
lence.
Knoxville and Barnstable have furnished
two excellent examples of law enforcement
which will have the unqualified approval
of all w h o believe in A m e r i c a n ideals.
*
* *
Further, we read in the Cincinnati, Ohio,
Commercial
Tribune,
these
encouraging
words:
In the matter o f lynch law and mob exe­
cution in protection of women from the
menace of brutish baseness there has just
been given an expression by southern wom­
en that is at once illuminating and inspir­
ing. T h e emanation is in form of a state
ment issued from a special section of the
Georgia State Committee on Inter-Racial
Co-operation. The membership of this sec­
tion, it is stated, is composed entirely of
southern women. T h e statement r e a d s :
We believe that no falser appeal can be
made to southern manhood than that mob
violence is necessary for the protection of
womanhood,
or that the brutal practice of
lynching and burning human beings is an
expression
of chivalry.
We believe
that
these methods are no protection to anything
or anybody, but that they jeopardize
every
right and every security
that we
possess.
T h a t is a preachment in behalf of orderly
observance of law founded on a principle
«-i<f>t adhered to « s here set forth, cannot
but b r i n g about rigorous, righteous enforce­
ment of law. It is an appeal from lawless
r.ess to law, from the specious argument of
curing violence by violence of the sound
argument o f insuring immunity under law
by referring all crimes and misdemeanors
to adjudication through law.
This may be womanly intuition of which
we are wont to prate. It is essentially w o ­
manly intelligence sensing right which
alone is cure f o r w r o n g .
* * *
The Brooklyn, N. Y . , Eagle, o b s e r v e s :
It is a pleasure to note that women as
women, even Georgia women, are tired
of what has camouflaged the lynching ter­
ror for half a century.
F o r m e r G o v e r n o r Hugh Dorsey, whose
manly attack on Judge Lynch was univer
sally applauded by right-thinking persons,
seemed to have been beaten down by the
reactionaries when H a r d w i c k became Gov­
ernor and the executive policy was changed.
But this new development gives fresh illus­
tration to the proposition that right conduct
THE CRISIS
32
and true speaking are never without per­
manent effect, no matter how unpopular
for the moment. T h e State of Georgia will
be brought close to D o r s e y ' s position if
these energetic women keep up their w o r k .
A n d to the material industrial interests o f
Georgia no greater service can be done
than the establishment o f fair play to the
Negroes, on whose skilled and unskilled
labor the State must long depend.
THE
VOTE
I
N the Call o f N e w Y o r k , we r e a d :
W e have had occasion the past year or
two to call attention to the changing po­
litical conditions o f the South as a result
of the increasing importance of capitalist
production in that section. W e have point­
ed out that the Republican p a r t y has been
gradually dumping its N e g r o traditions to
win the support of the southern oligarchy
T o d a y the views of the party as formulated
by Lincoln, Sumner and Seward have been
practically repudiated.
If these men were
to return today they would find a rapidly
increasing coalition of the Republican party
with the southern ruling class and that the
terms o f the coalition are the sacrifice of
the N e g r o . Over his prostrate body the
ruling classes o f two sections make peace.
A dispatch to the Evening
Post
from
Richmond, V a . , shows that the bargain is
being consummated.
It is agreed by the
Republicans of that state that they are to
be a "white man's p a r t y . " More significant
still is the statement: "It is understood
that this innovation meets with entire ap­
proval at W a s h i n g t o n . " This means that the
bargain with southern Democrats has the
approval o f the national Republican lead­
ers. N e g r o Republicans were barred from
the Republican Club o f Richmond by the
police when they sought to participate in
the election of delegates to the state con­
vention.
"In exchange f o r the loss o f its N e g r o
auxiliaries," w e read, "the Renublicans in
Virginia have gained the suptiort of manv
men o f influence and wealth."
Among
these are railroad presidents, hankers, cap­
italists and business men of R c h m o n d , Nor­
folk, L y n c h b u r g and other cities. In short,
the Republican aggregation is admitted to
be a consolidation of catrtalist wealth and
power.
It is to maintain an unwritten
agreement with the Democratic c a r r y f o r
the complete exclusion of the N e ° r o from
elections. The agreement frees the ruling
class of V i r g i n i a from dependence upon
one political machine.
O n ° congressional district has been car­
ried b y the Republicans f o r a number o f
years and the Republican vote has boen
s r o w i n e in other districts.
T h e Republi­
can national committee has already taken
steps to eliminate the N e ? r o from its coun­
cils and Republican conventions with the
exnectat on that a "lily w h i t e " Republican
parfv will increase in power in the South
All this follows the marked economic
:
;
changes of the last half century which are
slowly t r a n s f o r m i n g the South into an im­
age of the capitalist North.
It. indicates
the sweep o f capitalist production to the
Gulf. The old political traditions o f Lin­
coln and other early leaders o f the Repub­
lican p a r t y are being abandoned and the
b a r g a i n consists o f the c o m p l e t e social, eco
nomic and political degradation o f the Ne­
g r o w o r k e r s of the South. It also carries
with it a similar degradation f o r m a n y
hundreds o f thousands o f w h i t e workers
w h o are excluded f r o m the franchise by
various exception laws.
T h e last semblance o f difference between
both political parties in national politics
is being wiped out. Capitalism is national
and its parties at last b e c o m e national in
scope. T h e N e g r o Republican leaders who
have led masses o f N e g r o e s to their be­
trayal are themselves b e i n g kicked in the
face f o r their treachery.
A final chapter
in the orientation o f the t w o - p a r t y machine
of capitalism is b e i n g written f o r the in­
struction o f the w o r k i n g class o f all colors
and degrees o f e c o n o m i c servitude.
THE
SOUTH
AND
"MR."
T N an article in The Christian
States­
*
wan, the H o n . Bolton Smith o f Memphis,
Tenn., has this to s a y :
The white people in every locality o f the
South should get in close touch with the
conservative local N e g r o
leaders.
They
should g r a n t all possible requests coming
from them f o r the i m p r o v e m e n t o f the
schools and living c o n d i t o n s o f their peo­
ple and f o r their protection in person and
property.
Such leaders
should be
en­
couraged to speak with frankness to local
white leaders o f the conditions o f which
their people complain and fault should not
readily be found with them f o r w h a t they
m a y say to their own people. If w e think
them mistaken w e should reason with them,
not threaten them. If they are not allowed
a certain freedom in their intercourse with
their people, w e cannot e x p e c t them to
have influence with them. W e must begin
to show, in o u r address to the N e g r o lead­
ers f o r w h o m we feel respect, some o f that
respect w e should s h o w to the m o s t or­
dinary members o f o u r own race. A N e g r o
leader o f standing and c h a r a c t e r is enti­
tled to be addressed as Mr., and his wife
as Mrs., f o r in our own t o n g u e w e h a v e no
other title of respect. W e do it n o w n cor­
respondence and I believe w e must do it in
speech. This will be difficult to m a n y of
us, but I can see no other course if w e
hope to maintain relations o f genuine s y m ­
pathy with these leaders. T h i s s the only
civilized country in the world in which all
Negroes—high
and
low—are
addressed
alike. In other lands it has been the ef­
fort to so treat the N e g r o leader that
he would side with the white man's g o v ­
ernment. T h e difficulty o f o u r problem has
been increased b y o u r f a i l u r e to do this
:
:
;
AMERICAN NEGRO MINISTERS A T THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF METHODISM. IN LONDON,
W i t h portraits of Bishops Coppin, Smith and Jones; Secretaries Hawkins and W r i g h t ; Dr. W . S. Scarborough; Mrs. J.
F. Hurst;
and
others.
The Horizon
C O M P I L E D
BV
M A D E L I N E
G .
A L L I S O N
School at the age of eleven.
C Colored high school students in Brook­
lyn, N . Y . , have organized the Alplm
Chi
Sigma F r a t e r n i t y in the interest o f higher
scholarship. W i l l i a m A . Hunton, Jr., is the
secretary.
C G o v e r n o r H y d e has released $100,000 for
the erection o f a d o r m i t o r y at Lincoln
University, Jefferson City, M o .
G The State B o a r d o f Education has voted
to discontinue secondary w o r k at W e s t Vir­
Units o f work
ginia Collegiate Institute.
now include colleges o f education, engineer­
ing, agriculture, industrial education, arts,
science, home economics and business ad­
ministration.
Messrs. F. C. Sumner, Ph.D.,
p s y c h o l o g y ; A . P. Hamblin, B.S., b i o l o g y ;
.and E. L. Kelly, B.S., home economics, have
been added to the faculty.
T h e president
is John W . Davis.
MUSIC AND ART
S T U D E N T S of Myrtilla Miner Normal
School, Washington, D. C , have pre­
sented a pageant, " T h e Beckoning Spirit,"
which depicts the history o f their school.
The w o r k was under the direction of J.
Francis G r e g o r y of the English Depart­
ment.
(i Granville L. Stewart, tenor, Louie V .
Jones, violinist, and William S. L a w r e n c e
pianist-accompanist, have been making ;
tour of towns in Nova Scoti i.
Numbers
that have particularly pleased their audi­
ences are "Reflection," taken from Dunba
by William S. L a w r e n c e ; " R i s i n g Sun," by
R. Nathaniel Dett; and N e g r o "Spirituals,'
by H. T. Burleigh.
G Elmer C. Bartlett has given an o r g a r
recital at First A . M. E. Church, Los A n g e
les, Cal. His p r o g r a m included works i
Bach, Coleridge-Taylor, Guilmant, Dubois
and Horatio Parker.
(I M a y o r Hylan's Committee on City Mu­
sic, in N e w Y o r k City, included the Ne­
gro in its presentations.
T h e 15th Regi­
ment Band and Revella E. Hughes, soprano,
rendered
numbers,
among which
were
Tchaikowsky's " 1 8 1 2 , " Arditi's " A h W o n ­
drous M o r n " and "II B a c i o , " and Coleridge
Taylor's " E x p l a n a t i o n . "
C Mamie Smith, the colored " j a z z " singer
for phonograph records, has filled a 3-day
engagement at the Regent Theatre, Balti­
more, Md., where she was paid $1,000 per
day.
G A t the University o f C h i c a g o , H . Coun­
cill Trenholm has been awarded the de­
gree of Bachelor o f P h i l o s o p h y with hon­
ors.
He is a member o f the Alphi
Phi
Alpha F r a t e r n i t y . M r . T r e n h o ' m will teach
at the State N o r m a l School in M o n t g o m e r y ,
Ala., this year.
EDUCATION
Atlanta School o f Social Sen-ice is
conducting its 2nd session at Morehouse
College. Courses lead to secretaryships of
associated charities, anti-tuberculosis asso­
ciations and Urban L e a g u e s ; probation and
attendance officers; recreation directors and
welfare workers in churches, Y . M. C. A . ' s ,
Y . W . C. A.'s and industries.
G Mildred D. Brown, a colored girl in Jer­
sey City, N. J., has entered Lincoln High
THE
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C Meta L. Christy, a colored girl of Koko­
mo, Ind., has received the degree o f Doc­
tor o f Osteopathy f r o m the Philadelphia
College and Hospital f o r Osteopathy.
C W a l t e r L. Smith has been appointed to
succeed Garnet G. Wilkinson as principal
of Dunbar High School in W a s h i n g t o n ,
D. C. M r . Smith is a g r a d u a t e o f H o w a r d
University.
H e has been a teacher in
W a s h i n g t o n since 1902.
C Prof. Roscoe C. B r u c e , f o r m e r l y Assist­
ant Superintendent o f Colored Schools, in
W a s h i n g t o n , D . C , has accepted the po­
sition o f Rural Supervisor o f Schools in
Huntington, W . V a . H i s s a l a r y is $3,000
a year.
Cl F o r t Dearborn Hospital and T r a i n i n g
School f o r Nurses has been opened in Chi­
c a g o , 111. N e g r o e s m a y enter f o r nurse
training and interneship.
THE HORIZON
C Since the b e g i n n i n g of the present school
session, 15 rural school houses have been
opened f o r N e g r o e s in Tennessee. Julius
Rosenwald contributed $50,000 t o w a r d fi­
n a n c i n g this w o r k .
C T h e Colored H i g h School at L y n c h b u r g ,
V a . , opened this t e r m with a N e g r o faculty.
M a n y f o r m e r students, w h o had dropped
out while white teachers were in c h a r g e ,
have re-enrolled.
(I John W . Lee has been awarded a scholar­
ship at the University of Pennsylvania.
C B y making Grade A a v e r a g e , Charles
H . Houston, a N e g r o law student at H a r ­
vard University, has automatically become
one o f the editors of the Harvard Law Re­
view.
H i s a v e r a g e , 75 percent, is the high­
est ever made b y a colored law student.
C Estella L o v e t t has been appointed A s ­
sistant Principal at the B o o k e r T. W a s h ­
ington School in Kansas City, M o . Miss
Lovett was f o r m e r l y Girls' W o r k Secretary
at the P a s e o B r a n c h of the Y . W . C. A .
C. In W a s h i n g t o n , D . C , the Dunbar High
School opened this y e a r with an enrollment
of 1,267 as against 1,120 last y e a r ; the
A r m s t r o n g Manual T r a i n i n g School report*
an enrollment of 731, an increase of 2 4 2 ;
at the S h a w Junior High School there are
319 students as compared with 215 on open­
ing day last year.
(I Charles Chandler, a N e g r o student in the
Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y L a w School, has been ap­
pointed a contributing editor o f the Yale
Law
Journal.
MEETINGS
OVER
8,000 people were in attendance
at the National Baptist Convention,
Inc., which was held in Chicago. Dr. E . C.
Morris, o f Little Rock, A r k . , was re-elected
president.
T h e R e v . M r . L. G. Jordan re­
signed the secretaryship, after 26 y e a r s '
service. H e was m a d e secretary emeritus
with a salary o f $1,200 per year and a purse
of $2,500. Dr. J, E . E a s t , a returned mis­
sionary f r o m A f r i c a , was elected to suc­
ceed M r . J o r d a n .
The
financ'al
report
shows $323,860 raised during the year. Dr.
M o r r i s denounced the plan o f northern
white Baptists to set up regional organiza­
tions a m o n g N e g r o e s .
C T h e L o t t - C a r e y F o r e i g n Mission Conven­
tion and the W o m e n ' s A u x i l i a r y have been
held in N e w a r k , N . J. T h e sum o f $38,000
was raised f o r w o r k in A f r i c a , South A m e r ­
ica and Haiti. D r . C. S. B r o w n and Mrs.
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J. H. Randolph, o f Richmond, V a . , are pres
idents o f the convention and the auxiliary.
C More than 300 delegates attended the
8th triennial convention o f St. Joseph's
Aid Society, which convened in Jersey City,
N. J.
T h e organization has 100,000 mem­
bers and property valued at $100,000; its
cash balance is $50,000. Dr. Thomas H. B.
Walker, o f Jacksonville, Fla., is president.
C F o u r thousand people attended the Bap­
tist Convention, unincorporated, which was
held in N e w Orleans, with Dr. E. P. Jones
presiding. Dr. R. H. Boyd, corresponding
secretary of the National Baptist Publish­
ing Board, reported that more than $225,­
000 had been collected by the Board. With
the addition of the National Baptist Theo­
logical Seminary and T r a i n i n g School at
Nashville, worth $250,000, the publishing
plant is valued at $750,000.
INDUSTRY
Square Deal Realty & Loan Com­
pany, a N e g r o enterprise in Kansas
City, Mo., is conducting departments in real
estate, insurance, m o r t g a g e loans and home
building. Its capital o f $250,000 is fully
paid and non-assessable. It is p a y i n g quar­
terly dividends of 8 percent.
Samuel R.
Hopkins is president.
C A t Buffalo, N. Y „ the Haitian-African
Coffee Company, a N e g r o concern, owns a
4-story building where colored people are
employed in roasting and blending coffee.
C Mr. R. S. Cobb, secretary of the Missouri
N e g r o Industrial Commission, has published
a bulletin on housing and health conditions
in Missouri.
THE
C A N e g r o clerk in the Jersey City, N . J.,
Post Office, R o b e r t Evans, has been pro­
moted to the position of statistician.
C A m o n g employees in the Department of
Finance of Jersey City, N. J., are the fol­
lowing Ne<rroes: James Tate and Clarence
Jones, rent inspectors; Gilbert B r o w n , jit­
ney inspector, and Louis Faulkner, deputy
sheriff.
C In A k r o n , Ohio, Norman K e r r is a sten­
ographer in the Engineer's Office, being the
first N e g r o clerk in this office.
(I Zova E. O. Tinsley, a blind N e g r o in
Muskogee, Okla., owns 45 miles of tele­
phone service. He has 49 subscribers who
pay from $2.50 to $3.50 per month.
Mr.
Tinsley does his own line work, repairs in­
struments and makes installations.
C Fourteen years ago, Charles Copper, a
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THE CRISIS
N e g r o , entered the Civil Service o f Chicago,
111., as a j u n i o r clerk.
He n o w holds a
position in the Division o f Pipe Y a r d s and
Stores, with 17 clerks, 13 o f w h o m are
white, under his charge.
C U p to A p r i l 30, 1921, the colored Berry
& Ross M a n u f a c t u r i n g C o m p a n y , in N e w
Y o r k City, made a net sale o f $37,312; it
paid to its colored workers, $14,560.
0 T h e report o f the L a b o r e r s ' Penny Sav­
ings and Loan Company, in W a y c r o s s , Ga.,
shows that during the fiscal year ending
A u g u s t 31, 1921, the paid-in capital had
increased from $28,811 to $47,463; deposits,
from $68,318 to $97,060; total resources,
from $107,705 to $149,677. The bank o w n s
$16,025 worth o f real estate, $7,301 in stock
and Liberty Bonds, and has no bills pay­
able. A dividend o f 8 percent was declared.
The officers a r e : Carlton W . Gains, presi­
dent; Dr. H. C. Scarlett, vice-president; J.
C. M c G r a w , t r e a s u r e r ; and O. R. Harper,
cashier.
C W i l l i a m A . Cornelius, a N e g r o in N e w
Y o r k City, has been appointed to a clerk­
ship in the Office of the Collector of In­
ternal Revenue. His salary is $1,600 per
year.
C In the City T a x Office in Philadelphia,
Pa., there are 2 colored deputy delinquent
tax collectors, 2 deputy collectors, 7 senior
grade clerks and 2 janitors.
CRIME
following lynchings have taken
place since our last r e c o r d :
Aiken, S. C , September 8, Mansfield
Butler, shot; attacking w o m a n .
Aiken, S. C , September
8,
Charlie
Thompson, shot; attacking woman.
Columbia, La., September 13, Gilman
Holmes, burned; attacking ticket agent.
Pittsboro, N. C , September 18, Ernest
Daniels, h a n g e d ; attacking woman.
McComb, Miss., September 19, E d w a r d
McDowell.
THE
POLITICS
NEGROES
have f o r the first time been
appointed to the Hudson County, N . J.,
Board of Election. The appointees are Mrs.
Florence Jerome, Mrs. Rosa Frazier, Miss
M. Goldsborough, Mrs. Ella
Barksdale
B r o w n , Dr. G. W a r r e n Hooper, C. Bion
Jones and Alderwin Thomas.
C In the primary election in Baltimore,
t w o Negro Republicans won nomination as
delegates to the M a r y l a n d Legislature. The
nominees are A t t o r n e y A r t h u r E . Briscoe,
w h o has served a clerkship in the Legisla­
ture, and David R o b i n s o n , a business man.
Each candidate w a s fourth on his district
list, with 1,148 and 1,700 votes, respec­
tively.
C A m o s W . Scott, a N e g r o in Philadelphia,
won Republican nomination f o r City Magis­
trate.
(I In the p r i m a r y election in N e w York
City, t w o N e g r o members o f the B o a r d of
A l d e r m e n — D r . Charles H. R o b e r t s and
G e o r g e W . H a r r i s , w e r e re-nominated.
d N e g r o e s in Louisville, K y . , have organ­
ized the Lincoln Independent P a r t y . A full
city and c o u n t y ticket, with the exception
of the j u d i c i a r y , will be put into the field.
FRATERNITIES
IN Jacksonville, Fla., the
Progressive
Order o f Men and W o m e n has held its
first Grand C o n g r e s s .
T h e Order, which
was organized 10 years a g o , h a s a member­
ship o f 1,500. D r . H . W . J a m e s , Dr. John
E . F o r d and P r o f e s s o r N . W . Collier are
officials, and the H o n . M r . G e o r g e E . Tay­
lor is general organizer. A m o n g measures
adopted by the Congress is the erection of
a $100,000 temple.
C Masons in Indianapolis, Ind., have laid
the cornerstone o f a $100,000 temple.
C T h e m o r t g a g e on the M a s o n i c Temple in
Jacksonville, Fla., has been burned.
The
temple is valued at $500,000. M r . O. D.
Powell is Grand Master.
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
THIRTEEN
meetings to p r o m o t e health
educational plans w e r e held last month
f o r ministers, physicians and leaders of
public thought in C h i c a g o b y the Chicago
Urban League. Dr. Ralph B. S t e w a r t , of
the United States Public Health Service,
and Franklin O. Nichols, o f the American
Social H y g i e n e A s s o c i a t i o n , w e r e the speak­
ers.
C T. A r n o l d Hill, E x e c u t i v e S e c r e t a r y of
the Chicago Urban L e a g u e , is s e r v i n g as a
member o f the E x e c u t i v e Committee o f the
U n e m p l o y m e n t Conference f o r m e d t o han­
dle unemployment in t h a t city.
C T h r o u g h the A r m s t r o n g A s s o c i a t i o n of
Philadelphia, affiliated with the National
Urban League, an athletic director f o r girls
at the D u r h a m Public School has been ap­
pointed.
Besides her athletic w o r k with
THE HORIZON
girls d u r i n g the period allotted f o r recrea­
tion, she is developing self-governing clubs.
C T h e H o m e and School V i s t o r s , f o r m e r l y
employed b y the A r m s t r o n g Association as
a demonstration
o f the possibilities of
school visiting, have been taken over b y the
public school system—thus j u s t i f y i n g the
experiment o f the A r m s t r o n g Association.
d In the neighborhood o f one public school
in Philadelphia, which has about 1,400 col­
ored pupils, the w o r k o f a H o m e and School
V i s t o r has resulted in the establishment o f
one o f the best equipped day nurseries in
Philadelphia, the H a r r i s o n D a y Nursery.
It has a c c o m m o d a t i o n s f o r 70 children.
C The M a y o r ' s U n e m p l o y m e n t Committee
of N e w Y o r k City h a s as one o f its mem­
bers, James H . Hubert, E x e c u t i v e Secre­
t a r y of the N e w Y o r k Urban League.
C T h e " F e l l o w s " appointed b y the N a t i o n
al Urban L e a g u e f o r the school y e a r 1921­
22 a r e : T. Lloyd Hickman, graduate of
Denison University, assigned to the N e w
Y o r k School o f Social W o r k ; Miss Kather­
ine B . W a t t s , g r a d u a t e o f Fisk University,
assigned to the N e w Y o r k School o f Social
W o r k ; and Miss Myrtle D . Hull, graduate
of Spelman Seminary, assigned to the
School o f E c o n o m i c s o f the University of
Pittsburgh.
C The A n n u a l Conference o f the National
Urban L e a g u e was held in C h i c a g o , October
19 to 22. A m o n g subjects discussed w e r e
unemployment, the N e g r o migrant, plans
f o r recording and interpreting statistics as
a basis f o r practical social effort, industrial
relations
and co-operation between
the
races.
(I The Department o f Research and Inves­
tigations o f the National Urban League,
of which Charles S. Johnson is the director,
has completed a social survey of the Ne­
groes in Flushing, L. I., and is n o w at
w o r k on a similar study in H a r t f o r d , Conn.
It is w o r k i n g under the immediate auspices
of the M a y o r ' s A m e r i c a n i z a t i o n Commit­
tee.
r
C A s a result o f the child hygiene w o r k
which is being done in N e w a r k , N . J., by
three colored nurses appointed through the
efforts o f the N e w Jersey Urban League,
Dr. Julius L e v y , D i r e c t o r o f the Bureau o f
Child H y g i e n e , reports that infant mortal­
ity a m o n g colored babies f o r the first six
months o f 1921 w a s 106 per 1,000 births,
while f o r 1920 it w a s 173 per 1,000 births,
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and f o r 1919 it was 171 per 1,000 births.
T h i s is a reduction in one year o f 67 points.
d Dr. George E . Haynes was appointed a
member o f President Harding's Unemploy­
ment Conference, following protests o f the
National Urban League and its branches
against the omission of N e g r o representa­
tion.
D r . Haynes was assigned special
w o r k with the Committee on Community
Civic and E m e r g e n c y Measures in dealing
with unemployment.
Col. A r t h u r W o o d s ,
of N e w Y o r k , is chairman of this commit­
tee.
SOCIAL PROGRESS
THE Reconnaissance
Francaise, a bronze
medal, has been awarded to Dr. Har­
riet A . Rice b y the French Government f o r
services in the French military hospitals
during the world w a r . Dr. Rice is a N e g r o
graduate of Wellesley College and of the
W o m e n ' s Medical College of N e w Y o r k .
(I V i c t o r R. D a l y has been appointed to
the staff o f the Journal of Negro
History,
in W a s h i n g t o n , D . C , as business manager.
M r . D a l y is a graduate o f Cornell.
He
served as a Lieutenant in the 367 " B u f f a l o "
Regiment.
C Mrs. E. D . Cannaday, a colored woman
of Portland, Ore., has been admitted to the
Bar. She recently pleaded a case in Judge
M o r r o w ' s court and won her action.
(I N e w Y o r k City has its first N e g r o detec­
tive sergeant, in the person of W e s l e y Red­
ding. M r . Redding has been connected with
the Police Department 18 months.
C A tablet in memory o f H a y w a r d Shep­
pard is to be erected in H a r p e r ' s Ferry,
W . V a . , b y the Daughters o f the Confed­
eracy. Mr. Sheppard, a N e g r o porter, was
the first person killed in the raid of John
Brown.
(T The price of business property which
Dr. Charles E. Herriot purchased in St.
Louis, Mo., is $30,000 instead of $80,000.
d M r . C. G. Williams, o f Booneville, has
been appointed Inspector of N e g r o Schools
in Missouri.
C The 25th anniversary of the Northeast­
ern Federation o f Colored W o m e n ' s Clubs
has been celebrated in Baltimore, Md.
Miss Elizabeth Carter, o f N e w Bedford,
Mass., is president.
d In the national tennis championship meet,
Tally Holmes, o f W a s h i n g t o n , D. C , won
in men's singles, defeating Dr. O. B. Wil­
liams, o f Chicago. The scores were 6—4,
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THE
9—7,
6—3. In the women's singles, Miss
Lucy Slowe, of W a s h i n g t o n , D. C , defeated
Miss Isadore Channels, of Chicago. T a l l y
Holmes and Sylvester Smith were victors
in the finals o f the men's doubles. The
mixed doubles championship went to Miss
Esther Hawkins and Harold Freeman. Ted
Thompson w o n the national j u n i o r title.
d Miss Bessie Coleman, a colored woman
of Chicago, 111., has become a certified avia­
trix, after a course in aviation at the Con­
drau School in F r a n c e .
C Charles S. Gilpin, the N e g r o star in Eu­
gene O'Neill's " T h e E m p e r o r Jones," has
been received in private audience by Presi­
dent Harding.
C A t its recent session in Milwaukee, W i s . ,
the A r m y and N a v y Union elected John E.
Smith, a N e g r o of Washington, D . C , as
national historian. The vote was 149-17.
C John H. Pride, a N e g r o in Elizabeth,
N. J., is the winner of the 50 target mer­
chandise event of the Duane Gun Club.
Mr. Pride broke 49 clay birds out of a pos­
sible 50; he had two competitors t r y i n g for
second honors, with 47. In a 100 target
match, Mr. Pride broke 97 birds.
C Samuel A . Barnett has been awarded a
verdict o f $100 against the Philadelphia
Confectionery Company of Hackensack, N.
J., for discrimination.
C Earl Johnson, a N e g r o athlete, of Braddock, Pa., won the Masonic marathon race
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Buy one and you will buy
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257 W. 138th Street
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New York, N. Y.
COMMUNITY
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NATIONAL CAPITAL CODE OF ETIQUETTE
Combined
with
SHORT STORIES FOR COLORED PEOPLE
ETIQUETTE
PART i
A Book absolutely in a class by itself.
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Wonderful pictures of
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How to converse intelligently; how to know when to talk
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STORIES
PART 2
A wonderful collection of Short Stories for Young and
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Stories that will hold your attention from start to fin­
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Stories of Pluck
6tories of Success
Stories of Great Hen
Stories of Adventure
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A NARRATIVE OF T H E NEGRO.
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MADAM
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IS T H E S E C R E T
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