EXPOSITION
of
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The Crisis
NOVEMBER
-1913-
Ten
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National Emancipation Exposition
OCTOBER
12th Regiment Armory
22 to 31, 1913
New York City
SPECIAL
DAYS
EVENINGS
AFTERNOONS
Oct. 22
Wednesday
Albany
Saratoga
Troy
Fraternal
Orders
Opening
Exercises
Oct. 23
Thursday
New
Masons and
Odd Fellows
Pageant
Oct. 24
Friday
Governor's Day
Syracuse
Stenographers
and Artisans
Music School
Settlement
Concert
Oct. 25
Saturday
Mount Vernon
White Plains
A l l Southern
Day
Pageant
Athletic
Meet
Oct. 26
Sunday
Douglass Day
Rochester
Inter-church
Chorus
Rochelle
W i l l Marion
Cook and
Double
Quartette
C O N G R E S S
R E L I G I O U S
Oct. 27
Monday
Lincoln, 111.,
Day, Yonkers
Professional
Men
Banquet
SOCIOLOGICAL CONGRESS
Oct. 28
Tuesday
Baltimore
Buffalo
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Oct. 29
Wednesday
Oct. 30
Thursday
Oct. 31
Friday
Children's
Day
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Binghamton, Elmira,
Ithaca, Auburn
Washington,
D. C , Kings­
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Ossining,
Poughkeepsie
Greater New
York
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Pageant
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Business
Men
Clef Club
Concert
West
Pageant
Indians
Native
New Yorkers
Mention T H E CRISIS.
Exposition
Band Concert
and Costume
Ball
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A n Octoroon.
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EXPOSITION
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T H E MUSLIN PRIEST A N D T H E H E A T H E N .
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T H E F R E E D O M O F T H E F R E E . A Poem.
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Atlanta University
Is beautifully located in the City of Atlanta, Ga
The
courses of study include H i g h School, Nor­
mal
School and College, with manual training
and
domestic science.
Among the teachers
are
graduates
of Yale,
Harvard, Dartmouth, Smith
and
Wellesley.
Forty-two years
of
successful
work have been completed.
Students come from
all
parts of the South.
Graduates are almost
universally successful.
For
further information
President
address
EDWARD
WARE
T.
ATLANTA, GA.
Knoxville
College
Offers full courses in the following departments:
College, Normal, H i g h School, Grammar School and
Industrial.
Good water, steam heat, electric lights, good
drainage. Expenses very reasonable.
Opportunity for Self-help.
Fall Term Began September, 1913.
information address
President
R. W . M c G R A N A H A N
KNOXVILLE,
" In the Heart of the Healthy Hills "
The Agricultural and
Mechanical College
NORMAL,
ALABAMA
Makes a special effort to meet the needs of
young people who must work out their own salva­
tion.
It gives breadwinners a chance to go to
school and so puts a first-class E n g l i s h education and
a trade within the reach of every young person of
push and purpose.
Board, lodging and washing cost $9 per month.
An entrance fee of $10 covers medicine, hospital
care and doctor's bill for the year.
School opens the first Monday in October and
closes the last Thursday in M a y .
W A L T E R S. B U C H A N A N ,
Beautiful Situation.
Healthful Location
The Best Moral and Spiritual Environment.
A Splendid Intellectual Atmosphere.
Noted for Honest and Thorough Work.
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TENN.
President
Virginia Theological Seminary and
College, Lynchburg, V a .
COLLEGE
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Bachelor of Arts Course ( B . A . ) .
Scientific Course
leading to the degree Bachelor of Science ( B . S . ) .
THEOLOGICAL
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and Social Psychology.
A C A D E M I C C O U R S E — W h i c h prepares for col­
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Doing extensive work in Pedagogy
and Education. Co-educational.
Three hundred and five students last year, repre­
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South America and British West Indies.
Strong, efficient, experienced faculty.
R O B E R T C. W O O D S ,
President.
Virginia Union University
Agricultural
RICHMOND, VA.
and Mechanical College
A College Department,
modern curriculum.
of
high
standards
and
A
Theological Department, with
all subjects
generally required in the best theological seminaries.
Maintained
by
the
govern­
ments of North Carolina and of
the United States.
year
round.
Fall
term
1913.
$7
For
began
males
the
only.
September
Strong faculty.
equipment.
ates.
Open all
1,
month.
further
For
information
J A M E S
B.
giving
a
The
positive moral and religious aim of the
school, its high standards of entrance and of class
work, its fine new buildings and well-equipped
laboratories and library prepare a faithful student
for a life of wide usefulness.
GEORGE
RICE
HOVEY,
President
Excellent
Successful
gradu­
Board, lodging and tuition,
per
An
Academy, with manual training,
preparation for life or for college.
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D U D L E Y
President
GREENSBORO, N. C.
ST. M A R Y ' S
SCHOOL
An Episcopal boarding and day school
for girls, under the direction of the Sisters
of St. Mary.
Address:
THE
SISTER-IN-CHARGE
611 N . 43d St.
W . Philadelphia, Pa.
BISHOP C O L L E G E , M A R S H A L L , T E X .
Maintains college, academic, theological, musical, normal,
grammar and Industrial departments.
Offers the most a d ­
vanced courses and Is the best-equipped school for Negroes In
the Southwest.
F o r Information address
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1913
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ALONG T H E COLOR LINE
SOCIAL
UPLIFT.
LOUIS
G R I F F I T H S , who served on the
•*-*' staff o f the commander at the national
camp of the G r a n d A r m y of the R e p u b l i c
held i n Chattanooga, Tenn., i n September,
was the first colored man to serve i n this
capacity.
<J D r . A . B . Schultz-Knighten, a colored
woman, was one of the jurors on the t h i r d
j u r y of women appointed by Judge Owen i n
Chicago for the t r i a l of insane women.
*I A black Z u l u speaking three E u r o p e a n
languages has been ordained a priest i n
Rome.
<J A m o s W i l l i a m s , a colored farmer l i v i n g
near Poughkeepsie, N . Y . , recently saved the
lives o f a white man and his wife who were
i n danger of being killed i n a runaway
accident.
<J Rev. A . J . Carey represented the Negro
race at the P e r r y centennial celebration at
P u t - i n - B a y , L a k e E r i e , 0 . H e was one of
four speakers.
<I F a t h e r J o h n M c G u i r e , the pastor of the
colored Catholic church i n St. Louis, is
establishing a Negro settlement and t r a i n i n g
school for colored w o r k i n g girls i n that city.
<I Negroes i n Cleveland, 0 . , have purchased
thirty-four acres of land i n H a m i l t o n
County on which they . propose to erect a
school f o r boys.
<J The colored people of New Orleans are
to have a new branch l i b r a r y .
«I A colored woman, M r s . Joseph Shreeves,
represented Illinois at the annual convention
of the Spanish-American war veterans
Buffalo, N . Y .
in
*J W i l l i a m R e i l l y , a Southern landowner, has
furnished homes and small farms for thirty
Negroes formerly i n his employ.
*5 The colored churches of P h i l a d e l p h i a have
presented a memorial to the late J . D .
K e l l y , a prominent member o f the relief
committee of reconstruction times.
<B Reports submitted at the meeting of the
A l a b a m a Federation of Colored Women's
Clubs showed that the clubs of this State had
distributed $12,000 d u r i n g the year for
reform and educational work.
*fl A . C . Taylor, a colored aviator, will make
his first flight i n an aeroplane, which he is
constructing, at the State f a i r i n Richmond.
A memorial has been erected to D r .
E d w a r d W i l m o t B l y d e n i n Sierra Leone,
where he spent his last years. A subscrip­
tion fund for final payments on the memo­
r i a l has been started i n E n g l a n d .
*J The building which is to
National
Industrial
Orphan
Centralia, C a l . , for Negroes
started.
house the
School
at
has been
*I A l l the members of the white longshore­
men's union i n Mobile, A l a . , are on strike to
enforce
the
demands
of 2,000
Negro
longshoremen.
*I The Southern L a b o r Congress which met
at Nashville recently, representing nearly all
the trades unions of the South, decided, after
a long debate, to admit colored men to the
organization.
THE
320
^ Two young colored fellows, Sloan and
Thompson, saved 317 lives i n the D a y t o n
flood.
They have been recommended f o r
Carnegie medals.
*2 H e n r y West, a one-armed colored flagman
i n A s b u r y P a r k , lost his life i n saving two
9-year-old boys who were d r i v i n g a pony
across the tracks before an approaching
train.
EDUCATION.
THE board of education has ordered
•*•
seven new schools erected f o r Negroes
i n Mecklenburg County, N . C. The board
w i l l furnish the material and the people of
the districts w i l l erect the buildings.
*I M a n y have sent subscriptions for the
support of the Berean M a n u a l T r a i n i n g
School i n Philadelphia.
This school, for­
merly supported by the State, was cut off
entirely by Governor Tener when he acted
on the a p p r o p r i a t i o n bills passed by the
last legislature.
<I St. M a r t i n ' s College, i n Philadelphia,
which had enrolled thirty or forty colored
youths from the poorer sections of the town,
has been compelled to close down because of
the lack of funds.
*I F i s k U n i v e r s i t y received $1,000 from the
estate of the late W i l l i a m C u t t i n g .
*II A site has been purchased near Eagle
F o r d , Tex., for the projected rescue normal
and industrial institute for Negroes.
*I The M a n u a l and Industrial School f o r
Colored Youths, at Bordentown, N . J . , has
been reorganized on a vocational basis and
the school term has been lengthened sixty
days.
^ Miss D o r a Holmes, who has been ap­
pointed to teach i n the public "schools of
H a v e r h i l l , Mass., w i l l be the first colored
teacher appointed in these schools.
<I I n addition to the $15,000 which the
National Baptist Association has been con­
tributing yearly to home missions, the asso­
ciation now plans a theological school i n
Tennessee for the t r a i n i n g of Negroes.
•I W h i t e teachers have been appointed i n
the M c C a r t h y school for Negroes i n N e w
Orleans.
*I A f t e r a long controversy the decision that
Chinese are not colored permits the children
of this race to attend the white public
schools in Covington, K y .
CRISIS
ECONOMICS.
THE Ohio business directory of colored
men and women f o r 1913 has been
published and shows, o f the entire p o p u l a ­
tion of 4,767,121, a colored p o p u l a t i o n o f
223,994.
There are 1,215 business enter­
prises i n the fifty-one towns represented i n
the directory.
«I Sarah Rector, a 10-year-old colored g i r l
of Muskogee, Okla., has a y e a r l y income o f
$11,000 f r o m o i l wells which she
has
inherited.
<I Negroes i n Charleston, S. C ,
have
opened a ten-cent store w h i c h gives employ­
ment to twenty-five colored people.
<1 D r . J . T. W i l l i a m s , a colored citizen of
Charlotte, N . C., has opened a hotel i n that
city f o r the accommodation of members of
his race.
The hotel contains twenty bed­
rooms and a l l modern appointments.
*I M o n e y is being raised by the colored
people of Chicago f o r a wholesale house and
a department store which w i l l give employ­
ment to 300 Negroes.
*I D r . Clinton Barnett, a colored p h y s i c i a n
of H u n t i n g t o n , W . V a . , owns and manages
a modern private hospital valued at $25,000.
<fl Negroes of W a s h i n g t o n , D . C ,
opened the Industrial Savings B a n k .
have
*I Negroes have opened a bank i n Ocala, F l a .
MEETINGS.
THE national B a p t i s t convention and
jubilee anniversary of the Negroes'
freedom was held i n Nashville, Tenn., Sep­
tember 17. The exposition connected w i t h
the convention was held two miles f r o m the
city i n a forty-acre p a r k w o r t h $300,000 and
owned by an ex-slave.
*J The Freedmen's
R e l i e f Committee o f
P h i l a d e l p h i a held their fiftieth anniversary
celebration i n P h i l a d e l p h i a September 8-17.
<I The Sigma P i P h i , a national Greekletter fraternity of colored college gradu­
ates, had their grand boule at W a s h i n g t o n ,
D . C , September 10-12.
*J Semi-centennial celebrations of the eman­
cipation of the Negro are being held i n
Chicago, R i c h m o n d , Ind., N e w Orleans and
other places.
A t a l l of these celebrations
the main purpose is to show the progress
of the Negro i n his fifty years of freedom.
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The sixth annual session of the National
Association of Colored Nurses was held in
P h i l a d e l p h i a September 3-5. Two hundred
and fifty were present.
*J Arrangements have been completed for the
Clef Club to make a tour of several large
cities after their initial concert at the eman­
cipation exposition.
^ The
National
Independent
Political
League met i n Boston during September to
devise a campaign i n defense of colored
citizens.
PERSONAL.
*I The National E m a n c i p a t i o n Commemora­
tive Society, of Washington, D . C , celebrated
the emancipation anniversary on September
22.
*J A l t h o u g h Connecticut has no State ap­
propriation, the colored citizens held a threedays celebration at W h i t e C i t y , Savin Rock,
which began September 25.
*I Negro mail clerks met i n St. Louis
October 2-4 and organized a national
association.
*I The tenth annual session of the N a t i o n a l
Association of Teachers i n Colored Schools
met i n Little Rock, A r k . , August 3.
PHILADELPHIA
was represented at the
*
International
Congress
on
School
Hygiene, held i n Buffalo, by D r . J o h n P .
Turner, the only colored inspector of that
city. D r . Turner's exhibit, which won the
first prize, was selected from a long list.
*I D a v i d F r a n c i s , a colored scholar, who was
a sort of recluse, died at Flemington, N . J . ,
recently, leaving an estate which is valued
at $250,000.
*J I n the September C R I S I S we stated incor­
rectly that M r . Bourne is chief proofreader
for the Riverside Press. H e has charge of
the mechanical department of the
Atlantic
Monthly.
^ J . A . C r a w f o r d , of Boston, has
appointed bail commissioner.
been
*][ The Beecher centennial was held i n
P l y m o u t h Church, B r o o k l y n , October 21.
P r o f . K e l l y M i l l e r and M r s . A . W . H u n t o n
were the chief speakers.
*J A l f r e d Cowan, the well-known B r o o k l y n
lawyer, died i n N o r f o l k on September 9. H i s
widow is also a lawyer.
*J R i c h m o n d , V a . , is holding a semi-centen­
nial celebration.
*3 F r e d . N . Campbell, a colored boy of
London, Canada, has invented an airship
destroyer. H e claims that two of them w i l l
protect a city as large as Toronto.
MUSIC
A N DART.
A B E N E F I T performance was held under
the auspices of the R i c h m o n d M u s i c
Association and the Richmond Commercial
Club, both white organisations, for Wesley
H o w a r d , a y o u n g colored violinist, who
graduated from high school i n R i c h m o n d
this s p r i n g . Over $500 was netted.
<I A large colored company under the direc­
tion of G . G . W i l l i a m s w i l l give E d w i n H .
Haekley's musical romance, "The Ambas­
sador," i n P h i l a d e l p h i a on November 6.
<I M i s s
Effie
Grant, a young colored
vocalist of exceptional talent and the first
colored graduate from the Y a l e M u s i c a l
Conservatory, with M i s s Helen M i n n i s , a
brilliant young pianist, gave a recital at the
W h i t e Congregational Church, of Racine,
Wis.
<I M r s . H a c k l e y conducted a class i n oratorio
f o r a month in the H a m p t o n Institute sum­
mer school. She w i l l i n the future devote
her time to g i v i n g the masses of Negroes
vocal training.
*I A colored man, M r . J . B . Clarke, has been
appointed to teach Spanish i n the evening
high schools of New Y o r k . H e received the
highest rating i n the competitive examina­
tions for men.
*J Lavelette W i t t e n , a young colored g i r l of
Springfield, Mass., won a prize for essay
writing, competing with forty others.
<I A t the fourth annual A m e n i a ( N . Y . )
field day on August 16 Miss M a r y C a r l , a
colored g i r l , took the part of Mother Nature
i n a play festival representing "The F o u r
Seasons," i n which a l l the other dancers,
about seventy in number, were white. Miss
Carl's part was the most important.
FOREIGN.
THE local labor federation of Perth,
A u s t r a l i a , has protested to the post­
master-general that the employment of a
colored doctor on the mail steamer "Orontes"
is a contravention of the white labor con­
dition i n the mail contract.
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THE
*I I n China, d u r i n g the past year, sentences
v a r y i n g from ten to twenty years have been
passed on many colored coolies for " r i o t i n g "
and
"attempting murders" of E u r o p e a n
estate owners.
I n most cases the trouble
resulted from the failure of the managers to
p a y the coolies p r o m p t l y and the habit of
abusing them when they wanted to stop
work. Retaliation of the laborers resulted
in the imprisonment. To remedy this a b i l l
has been introduced which w i l l enforce
punctual payment of the coolies.
The late S i r A l f r e d Jones, president of
the E l d e r Dempster Steamship Co., has
bequeathed $20,000 for the promotion of
technical education i n B r i t i s h West A f r i c a ,
and considerable sums f o r the study and
treatment of tropical diseases, with hospitals
and laboratories at S i e r r a Leone and at
Liverpool.
*I A t Barbados, the West I n d i a island which
has the best educational system, a b i l l to
raise the age limit for attendance i n the
grade schools to 16 years from 14 was
defeated, largely through the efforts of
colored men prominent i n the legislature
and government service. A s the result of a
petition signed by 6,000 persons under the
leadership of another group of colored men,
the white majority o f the legislature and
board of education compromised by v o t i n g
to permit the attendance at school of
children who could show some good reason
for f a i l i n g to complete their course between
the ages of 7 and 14, the present maximum.
<J T h i r t y - f o u r native and colored women who
rebelled against the Pass laws of Bloemfontein, South A f r i c a , have been sentenced
to two months' hard labor, but still remain
firm i n their determination not to be treated
as chattels.
*I A great outcry comes f r o m the natives of
South A f r i c a against the l a n d act which
has just been passed.
This act forbids
natives to acquire l a n d or an interest i n
land outside of the areas set aside as the
native reserves. The purpose of the law is
to segregate natives from Europeans.
CRISIS
with criminals, mental defectives, those w i t h
tubercular diseases, etc.
<I The citizens o f N e w Y o r k C i t y are
m a k i n g plans for the organization • o f a
civic league which w i l l conduct a campaign
to secure Negro representation i n the ad­
ministration of the city's affairs.
*I R a l p h E . L a n g s t o n has been appointed
special agent under agent J o h n W . Sinsel, o f
the N e w Y o r k division o f the I n t e r n a l
Revenue Department.
*I Representative H e n r y George was referred
to the Southern Senators by the President
when he wished to recommend several
Negroes
in
his
district
for
Federal
appointments.
T H E GHETTO.
THE p r i n c i p a l of the N e w Jersey A v e n u e
school, i n A t l a n t i c C i t y , refused to
enroll colored children at the beginning o f
this school year.
^ H e n r y K e a r n e y , who was sentenced to
serve ten years i n Jackson, Miss., f o r m a n ­
slaughter, has been pardoned because one
member of the j u r y confessed that some o f
the j u r o r s convicted h i m s i m p l y "to keep the
Negro down."
*I A white carriage driver i n C i n c i n n a t i
refused to drive a carriage occupied by
colored people.
H e claimed that it was
against the rules of the drivers' union to
drive any open carriage containing Negroes.
«I Springfield, 111., is p a y i n g $45,000 to the
relatives of those slain i n the riot of 1908.
<I " J i m C r o w " cars
contrary to the laws.
still
go
into
Ohio
<I J . H . D u c k e r y wished to take a summer
course at the Y . M . C . A . i n P h i l a d e l p h i a ,
but was refused on account o f color.
The
young man's father threatened to p u b l i s h
the actions of the Y . M . C . A . and demand
that the name C h r i s t i a n be taken f r o m the
organization.
D u c k e r y was then admitted.
POLITICAL.
*I A l l of the colored girls w o r k i n g i n B u t l e r
Brothers' wholesale house i n Dallas, Tex.,
except one, left because they were not
allowed to use the passenger elevator.
THE
Jefferson
Political
League, of
Denver, C o l . , has sent a strong pro­
test to Congress against the " J i m C r o w "
marriage law which places A f r i c a n s and
those of A f r i c a n descent i n the same class
*I S i x t y colored school children marched to
the R o s l y n , L . I., p u b l i c school demanding
entrance and the abolishment o f the separate
school provided for them.
They were
threatened with arrest i f they did not leave.
'
ALONG
T H E COLOR
<I A n d r e w Sims, a Negro, o f Newark, N . J . ,
has brought suit against Isaac B o y l a n d ,
alleging that he was refused admittance to a
motion-picture theatre owned by Boyland.
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323
houses owned by colored people i n Baltimore
were attacked at about the same time.
Negro soldiers i n the P h i l i p p i n e s are said
to be compelled to labor with pick and shovel
i n mud and water, even on Sundays, while the
white soldiers are exempt from this labor.
€ The Camberwell poor-law guardians of
London, E n g l a n d , refused to appoint a
colored physician whose qualifications were
above those of the other candidates, on the
ground (hat the fastidious poor would refuse
to be attended by a Negro.
^ "When a colored real-estate dealer of
Los Angeles called at the property assessor's
office recently he found no names of Negro
owners or occupants i n the books, but i n
each case s i m p l y "occupied by niggers."
<I Postmaster B . H . Jones, of the A t l a n t a ,
Ga., postoffice, began his administration by
placing the white employees on the eastern
and most desirable side of the office and the
colored employees on the western side.
*I Georgia C u r r y , a colored woman, who was
asked some time ago to vacate her seat i n
F o x ' s Theatre i n B r o o k l y n , N . Y . , won a
suit against the company for $150.
*I A white hotel keeper was compelled by
the white citizens to leave W y n n e , A r k . ,
because he had his white waitresses serve
supper to a large number of Negroes en
route to the national B a p t i s t convention.
<J A colored mail clerk between Norfolk and
Raleigh, N . C , had as a subordinate a white
man who had passed a less creditable exam­
ination than the Negro. The matter was
complained of and now the positions of the
white and colored man have been reversed.
*II M a x i n e E l l i o t , i n a cablegram to
New Y o r k Age, denied the report that
had refused to be borne from the stage
two colored men i n the p l a y i n which
is appearing i n London.
the
she
by
she
*I E i g h t of twelve colored convicts confined
i n a dark cell were suffocated at H a r l e m
State farm, Tex. There were four one-inch
ventilation holes i n the cell over which the
survivors held their faces. The ages of the
victims ranged from 17 to 19 years. Two
guards and one sergeant, who were at first
placed under appearance bonds on charge of
murder, have been permanently released from
the charge.
<I A meeting was held by white people
l i v i n g i n Sunbrook P a r k , Baltimore, to pro­
test against the moving of M o r g a n College
for Negroes to that vicinity.
A s a result
Judge Duncan, o f the Baltimore circuit
court, has granted an injunction restraining
M o r g a n College from t a k i n g any action that
would result i n the settlement i n this vicinity
of any Negroes or persons of Negro descent,
"except i n the capacity of servants."
*I Commander George R . Downs refused to
allow discrimination against the Negro at the
army and navy union at Philadelphia.
«I W i l l i a m H . Webster, white, and Nellie
Rolls, colored, were arrested i n Baltimore
on their return from Washington, D . C ,
where they had been married, charged with
violating
the
miscegenation
laws
of
Virginia.
*J Students who formerly attended Southern
University i n New Orleans have no place to
go now, as the Negro schools do not provide
f o r any course above the sixth grade. The
school board had planned to establish a
Negro industrial and high school i n the
Southern U n i v e r s i t y building, but because of
a strong protest from the property owners
against h a v i n g a Negro school i n that
v i c i n i t y the board has abandoned this idea.
<$ A house recently bought and occupied by
Owens F u l l e r , a Baltimore Negro, was bom­
barded by a crowd o f white men and boys
who shattered window panes and battered
the woodwork.
The police, although the
stationhouse was only two blocks away, did
not come u p o n the scene of the mob until
twelve hours after it happened. Three other
<I George H o w e , a colored resident of 95
H a r f o r d Avenue, Baltimore, i n the attempt
to protect his home, fired into the mob at­
tacking the house and injured four men.
H e was arrested while the mob threatened to
lynch him and was struck by several mem­
bers of the mob. W h e n tried he was given
a sentence of two months each for the first
three offenses, but through the efforts of the
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People these decisions were
appealed and he is now under $500 bail
awaiting a j u r y t r i a l for the fourth case.
None of his white assailants i n the mob
were arrested.
THE
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Q D r . H . E . Lee, of Houston, Tex., was
informed by the New Y o r k Post Graduate
H o s p i t a l that he would be admitted to their
clinics. W h e n he disclosed the fact that he
was colored the offer was withdrawn.
CRIME.
HENRY
C R O S B Y , a Negro, was lynched
at
Louisville,
Miss.,
because
he
frightened a white woman by his "strange
actions." The "strange actions" consisted i n
asking the woman i f her husband was at
home.
q One Negro was killed and
another
injured by a posse i n Cairo, Ill., after being
tracked by bloodhounds. The k i l l i n g was the
result of a dispute between the Negroes and
a merchant i n the town.
*I M r . Ralston, a well-known citizen of
W i c h i t a , K a n . , firing into a cornfield to
frighten some white boys who were i n his
watermelon patch, shot one of the boys who
had hidden i n the cornfield. B y eluding the
mob, which immediately formed, he reached
the A r d m o r e prison safely, but later, while
being taken to Paul's V a l l e y for trial, he was
taken from the officers and lynched.
*I W i l l i a m Davis was lynched on the charge
of k i l l i n g two white men and wounding a
third.
1 Joseph Richardson, a Negro charged with
attacking a white boy or g i r l (which, does
not seem to be clear), was taken from a j a i l
in Litchfield, K y . , by a posse and lynched.
q W a l t e r Brownloe, accused of attacking a
white woman, was taken from the prison i n
Hinchcliffe, Miss., and lynched.
*I I n an altercation between a white man,
M c G o u g a r , and Thomas Anderson, a Negro,
both were killed and the body o f the Negro
was smeared with oil and burned. The white
man was buried with elaborate ceremony.
*I W i l l i a m F a i r , who barely escaped lynch­
i n g on the charge of a crime against a white
woman, has been found not guilty.
q A Negro who enlisted in the M i s s i s s i p p i
National G u a r d without mentioning his race
barely escaped l y n c h i n g when it was dis­
covered that he was colored.
q Louis W h i t e , a colored overseer of a f a r m
i n Germantown, Tenn., and another Negro
were fired upon by two white boys as they
were d r i v i n g along near the farm.
White
was killed
and his companion
fatally
CRISIS
wounded.
The murderers have not been
found.
q Moses H o l m a n , on his w a y to C i n c i n n a t i ,
was passing through a white coach to get
to the coach f o r colored people when some
dispute arose between the Negro a n d several
white men.
H o l m a n was k i l l e d by a shot
from one man and a stab f r o m another.
q I n a recent race riot i n H a r r i s o n , Miss.,
ten were killed and t h i r t y wounded.
Two
Negroes who were accused o f b e g i n n i n g the
riot by shooting through the town were
lynched and the 2,000 colored inhabitants o f
H a r r i s o n were marched past their coffins
and compelled to view the mutilated re­
mains. N o w the mother o f these two Negroes,
accused of being the chief plotter, is i n j a i l
and an organized mob lies i n wait f o r her.
The majority o f those k i l l e d were Negroes.
*I George Deese, a M o n t g o m e r y constable,
was freed from the charge of k i l l i n g
B e n j a m i n Josephs, a Negro.
The defense
was that the Negro was reaching f o r his
revolver when Deese fired.
q Preston Jones, a Negro accused of k i l l i n g
Samuel H i c k e y , a white patrolman, has been
sentenced to hang i n Nashville, Tenn.
q Charles Guth, who killed his colored
chauffeur i n a dispute which arose because
G u t h didn't want his milk delivered at the
same time as his chauffeur's, has been freed
from the charge.
q A l b e r t Sorgee, the superintendent of the
A i k e n County chain gang, has been arrested
on the charge of m u r d e r i n g a Negro by
whipping.
q J u l i u s Dorsey, a 10-year-old colored boy
who was sent to the M i s s i s s i p p i penitentiary,
has been pardoned by Governor B r e w e r , who
considers him too y o u n g to be serving the
State.
q G . S. N a n c h , a white man of B r o c k i n g h a m
N . C , who murdered his wife and had been
pronounced insane, was threatened w i t h
lynching. The sheriff got advance i n f o r m a ­
tion, however, and s k i l f u l l y "evaded the
angry mob."
r
q A mob of s t r i k i n g miners assaulted three
colored non-union men when they left the
train at T r i n i d a d , C o l . The hack driver, who
was at the station with a justice o f the
peace i n the hack, was compelled to drive
away, so the fate of the three Negroes is
not known. J o h n Stone was the only one
of the three whose name was k n o w n .
MEN OF THE MONTH
A
FLORIST.
PEYTON M . D e W I T T , of Bridgewater,
*
P a . , is rated by Bradstreet at $40,000.
M r . D e W i t t is one of the most successful
horticulturalists i n the country and has
worked up i n his trade from gardener's
assistant to the proprietor of a large business
which has put several new varieties of
flowers on the market.
H e was born i n
Georgia just before the outbreak of the C i v i l
W a r , and came with his mother and her
three other children to B r i s t o l , P a . A t the
age o f 8 he was a mule driver on the
canal and then became a gardener.
I n the summer of 1880 came the first
undertaking—a partnership with his brother
i n a small house, 12x50, at B r i s t o l .
After
DR. G E O R G E W.
BUCKNER.
seven years of successful effort he became the
sole proprietor of a large establishment at
Torresdale. F o r the past fifteen years the
plant, has been beautifully located at Bridgewater upon a tract of thirty acres.
The
plant comprises, roughly, eight greenhouses,
each having a depth of 150 feet and a
breadth o f twenty feet, covered by 20,000
feet of glass; a central hot-water plant under
pressure, fed by two boilers of twenty-five
and f o r t y horse power, respectively; a water
tank of 15,000 gallons capacity and other
necessary equipment.
P E Y T O N M . DeWITT.
A regular force of six men is employed,
including a very capable foreman, who has
been i n M r . D e W i t t ' s service for eighteen
years.
THE
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ME.
DeWITT'S
D u r i n g the busy season, f r o m October to
June, from 500 to 1,000 carnations and
chrysanthemums are shipped daily to two
leading
wholesale
houses i n P h i l a d e l ­
phia.
W h i l e other
varieties of flowers
are cultivated, carna­
tions and chrysanthemums
are M r .
DeWitt's
specialty.
A few years ago he
succeeded in market­
ing a new variety—a
dark pink carna tion—known as the
Pennsylvania,
but
called by many the
D e W i t t . A t present
he has other good
varieties on trial, a
white one
being
especially promising.
CRISIS
CONSERVATORIES.
George W . Buckner, o f E v a n s v i l l e , Ind., as
U n i t e d States M i n i s t e r to L i b e r i a .
Dr.
B u c k n e r was born i n Greens County, K y . ,
and was educated i n
the public schools of
Indianapolis
and
Terre
Haute.
He
took his m e d i c a l
course at the Eclectic
M e d i c a l College o f
Indianapolis,
where
he was graduated i n
1890. H e is a prac­
tising p h y s i c i a n i n
E v a n s v i l l e and has a
wife
and
four
children.
A
M
THE
MINISTER
LIBERIA.
TO
P R E S I D E N T
WILSON has
nominated and the
Senate has confirmed
W.
W.
SANDERS.
STATE
LIBRARIAN.
MR. W I L L I A M
W A L T E R
S A N D E R S has just
been appointed State
l i b r a r i a n of W e s t
Virginia.
Mr.
Sanders was born
H e n r y County, V a . ,
October
16,
1873.
H e was educated i n
MEN
MR.
OF T H E MONTH
BLODGETT
the district schools and the Presbyterian
School of Martinsville and at
Lincoln
University, where he graduated f r o m the
college department i n 1897 and the theo­
logical department i n 1900. F o r ten years
he was the pastor of the H o p e Presbyterian
Church, Chambersburg, P a . Thence he went
to West V i r g i n i a as teacher i n the public
schools.
gg
A
CONTRACTOR.
MR. L . M . B L O D G E T T , one of the lead•*•
i n g contractors of Los Angeles, C a l . ,
was born i n Summerville, S. C , thirty-five
years ago. H i s family belonged i n A u g u s t a
and returned there when he was 10 years of
age.
H e attended the local schools and
learned his trade of mason and finally decided
to settle in C a l i f o r n i a . H e says:
AND HIS
327
HOME.
" O n coming to C a l i f o r n i a I found that I
was still a colored man and for which fact the
people here thought that I should be debarred
from making a l i v i n g at my trade as a
journeyman. B u t there was plenty of work
and I knew how to do it right. So I began
taking small contracts and increasing the
size as my capital and w o r k i n g force
increased. This color business, which seemed
to be a bar, turned to be advertisement for us.
" I have employed more than 1,512 men
during the last year.
The total amount
actually contracted for d u r i n g the year was
$107,730.26.
I employed both skilled and
unskilled labor of a l l races and denomina­
tions. I own my own teams, concrete mixer,
hoists and such machinery as is required i n
the erection of a building."
OFFICERS O F T H E L A W
IN one year fifty murders done,
W i t h flashing knife and banging gun—
Y o u should w o r r y !
Some twenty girls found in fresh blood;
N e a r them are tracks, inch deep i n mud—
Y o u should w o r r y !
The clumsy slayer's still at large;
N o clue, as yet, much less a charge—
Y o u should w o r r y !
One death is London's sole disgrace,
While fifty shame A t l a n t a ' s face—
Y o u should w o r r y !
F o r spooning at the capitol
N o w shakes your brave,
chivalric—
What a crime!
Courageously you seize the p a i r
W h o make love i n the open air—
W h a t a crime!
Now secretly 'twould be all r i g h t ;
B u t out there i n the starlit night—
W h a t a crime!
A kiss! Oh, help ! Some hugging, too—
O f course, these things Y O U never do!
W h a t a crime!
W h o thinks you'd face a killer's gun,
That's seen you from a mad dog r u n ?
B u t drag a maid's name to disgrace
F o r an innocent kiss i n a public place—
A h ! W h a t a valiant thing to do,
Since horsewhips have their dangers, too.
—Atlanta
Constitution.
Opinion
M a n y people find it difficult to '
follow
the
logic
of
white
SOUTHERN
S o u t h e r n e r s i n regard to
LOGIC.
Negroes.
Certainly the three
extracts from Southern papers which f o l ­
low w i l l not lessen their difficulties.
The
South Carolina lynchings have stirred the
Columbia State to strong e d i t o r i a l ; and one
white correspondent says:
SOME
" I have lately reached a point to which
years of consideration of this matter of pub­
lic murder of Negroes have been b r i n g i n g
me; I assume as a matter of fact that the
lynched Negro is not only a murdered man,
but an innocent murdered man, and I am
pretty sure I am not alone i n this state of
mind. W h y should I be? A t the present
time a Negro can be murdered by any body
of white men i n South Carolina with i m ­
punity, i f only a woman, an anonymous
woman, b r i n g an
indefinite accusation
against him. Y o u r readers must have noticed
that neither the husband's nor the father's
name was given i n the papers i n connection
with this supposed assault i n Anderson.
Certainly there are most obvious reasons for
not publishing names, but very little thought
is needed to see the horrible danger to the
community i f vague accusations by anony­
mous women are sufficient to j u s t i f y a man
hunt, as the sport of Negro murder is well
called. Soon an unpopular white man may
be considered a fit quarry for that sort of
chase—a man, let us say, whose views on the
subject of 'Negro domination' do not agree
exactly with those of his neighbors.
" A g a i n I want to make myself clear.
Though villainous men can easily, and no
doubt have more than once before this i n ­
vented such anonymous charges and so used
some woman as a pretext for a lynching, I
have no doubt almost all such cases come
about quite innocently. A sudden attack of
panic arising from general nervousness and
overstimulation of the imagination by ac­
counts o f other 'attacks,' 'man hunts,' l y n c h ings and similar occurrences, a n d a woman
can i n a moment cause a murder, when the
other conditions are r i p e . Moreover, every
doctor knows, and every other man should
know, that women are p e c u l i a r l y subject to
conditions of delusion on just this point.
The constant talk of danger f r o m Negroes
makes lonely communities often into hotbeds
for this delusion. Then some poor woman
loses her self-command i n a moment of
fright, and the mischief is done.
"Three years ago about this time there was
talk of l y n c h i n g a Negro who had just been
condemned and was that moment to be
brought out f r o m the R i c h l a n d county court­
house here i n Columbia. I m i x e d w i t h the
crowd and talked to several o f those 'pro­
tectors of Southern womanhood.' Those I
saw were all d r i n k i n g . M u c h whiskey was i n
circulation through the crowd.
"L. P.
CHAMBERLAYNE.
" C o l u m b i a , September 22."
A s i l l u s t r a t i n g the k i n d o f hysteria to
which M r . Chamberlayne refers, we cannot
resist p u b l i s h i n g the complaint o f editor
B i r d s a l l as given i n the Y a z o o C i t y (Miss.)
Sentinel. A s a frank exposition o f the views
of a certain type of Southern m i n d we com­
mend this gem to our readers:
"There occurred last week an incident i n
which the editor of this paper was con­
cerned, upon w h i c h we want to make some
comment, not to a i r a personal grievance,
but to consider an action which sets a prece­
dent that w i l l act as a solvent i n destroying
that w a l l of protection against Negro domi­
nation which was built by those who strove
f o r t y years ago to assert and m a i n t a i n white
supremacy.
" A yellow nigger by the name of W i l l
Stewart came to the residence of the editor
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in the m o r n i n g to sell some chickens.
It
was so early that none of the family was
completely dressed, and the cook took the
chickens upstairs for inspection. The cook,
a reliable servant that had been with the
family for four years, afterward stated that
when she took the chickens upstairs she saw
the usual morning milk sitting on the walk
near Stewart; and that she had a short time
previously seen the milkboy leave it there.
Less than three minutes after she saw the
milk sitting near Stewart, when she re­
turned to pay him for the chickens, the milk
was gone.
"The evidence that he had stolen it was
conclusive. The editor had him arrested, not
because of the value of the milk, which was
a trifle, but as a lesson against petty p i l ­
fering.
The mulatto tried to employ M r .
Jas. G . Holmes, of the firm of Holmes &
Holmes, to defend him, but M r . Holmes de­
clined to take the case. The mulatto then
went to M r . W . A . H e n r y , J r . , who accepted
the case for a fee of $10, we understand.
The fee was secured by M r . J . W . Gregory,
according to his subsequent admission to the
editor.
" D u r i n g the progress of the trial
the
Negro uttered an infamous and most out­
rageous slander as to the editor's wife, i m ­
p u t i n g to her language that no lady would
use, and which no man, with a spark of
manhood, would have heard without resent­
ment.
The insult was p r o m p t l y and vigo­
rously resented by violence on the part o f
the editor with the only weapons at hand—
those provided by nature. The nigger lost
no time i n getting away, but was subse­
quently brought back by two officers.
''The mulatto's attorney apologized for the
coon's language, which he said he knew was
untrue, but proceeded to make a very elo­
quent plea for his acquittal, in face of the
flagrant insult to a lady who had been his
loyal and steadfast friend from boyhood.
"The Negro was acquitted and discharged,
i n face o f the very strongest circumstantial
evidence, by the following j u r y :
Will
Rosenthall, W . R . Jones, Simon Stubblefield,
Lee Cummins, W . H . H a m e l and B . E .
Bridges. I n justice to M r . Bridges, it should
be stated that he said to the editor after the
t r i a l that he was thoroughly convinced of
the nigger's guilt, and that he only con­
sented to the verdict, after considerable pro­
test, because he was sick, and did not want
to be detained all night on a hung j u r y .
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" F e e l i n g incensed and outraged to the
highest degree by the foul and infamous
slander, we sought the Negro that night and
the next morning with the fixed purpose of
inflicting a just punishment denied by the
court (1).
The Negro appealed to M r .
Gregory for protection and advice. Instead
of following a custom universal throughout
the South, he told him "he didn't know what
was to be done except to put the white man
under a peace bond! Just think of it, ye
men o f Yazoo, whose proud boast has been
that the brave men of this county were the
first i n the State to overthrow nigger rule
and re-establish a white man's government
here—think of a white man advising a nigger
to put a white man under a peace bond for
wanting to punish a nigger for resenting an
insult to a white woman.
" T h i s nigger has a reputation of being an
insolent, drunken, quarrelsome coon, who has
been mixed up i n a number of cutting
scrapes with other Negroes, and we are told
has been laid off by his employer, M r .
Gregory, more than once for drunkenness.
" M r . Gregory went to the mayor, where
the nigger also appeared. A n affidavit was
made against the editor by direction of
M a y o r Campbell, and was served by his
officers. W e declined to make the bond until
we had time to consult an attorney, who was
absent from the city at the time. W e made
vigorous protest to M a y o r Campbell, citing
him to the fact that a search of the records
of every court i n every city i n every State
in the South would not reveal a similar case
—law or no law—where a white man was
required to give a bond to keep the peace
against a nigger who had offered an insult
to a white woman. B u t M a y o r Campbell,
with a tardily awakened sense of his duty,
said he had a duty to perform, and under
his oath he must perform i t ! W i t h a great
show of authority he set the machinery of
his office i n motion and almost the entire
police force was out after a white man to
put h i m under a peace bond that the nigger
might be protected.
The editor went to
consult a friend for a half hour as to the
matter, and then at his usual hour leisurely
wended his way home, over the route always
traveled.
" F i n a l l y we appeared before Police Justice
R . R . Norquist, who had a bond prepared
in the sum of $5,000! A bank robber, a
safe blower, or desperate highwayman,
would have been treated with more con-
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sideration.
B u t the nigger must be pro­
tected—regardless of the insult to the white
woman.
U p o n request of our attorney,
however, the bond was finally reduced by the
justice to $1,000.
"Now, here is a white man who is for­
bidden by white officials to administer
punishment to a wretched, drunken, inso­
lent yellow coon f o r an insult offered to his
wife i n a court presided over by a white
man. W e have a white man, J . W . Gregory,
who aids and abets this insolent nigger i n
his insolence, defending him from the conse­
quences of it. M r . Gregory, we are told,
w i l l be a candidate f o r sheriff.
W i l l the
white voters o f Yazoo County put a mam
like that i n the highest executive office i n
the county—a man who would protect a
yellow nigger who publicly slanders and i n ­
sults a white woman who has always lived
her life on the highest level; a woman o f
intellect, character and firmness, which others
would do well to emulate?
" A n d then the mayor, forsooth, saying
that he must do his d u t y ! A man whose
administration has been notoriously feeble
and inefficient, who. when numberless ap­
peals have been made to him to enforce the
sanitary and other laws, has evaded action.
A n d yet, 'for solemn duty's sake,' he must
protect a yellow nigger i n his assault on the
respectability of a pure white woman. W e
do not say 'lady,' for it seems the coons are
the only 'ladies' nowadays.
"Not long ago an A s s y r i a n , a friendless
member of an alien race, made complaint of
assault by a white man, and asked f o r a
peace bond as protection.
The case was
literally laughed out of court as a joke.
"Some time last year a man claiming to
represent the Salvation A r m y made i m ­
proper advances to a highly respected young
lady of this city.
N o punishment, but to
prevent the rightful vengeance of the out­
raged father the offender was advised by the
officials to leave town.
"Not long ago A d a M a r t i n , who has
operated a blind tiger i n this city i n no­
torious violation of the law for the last
twenty years, was convicted, and afterward
released on a bond of $100, subsequently
j u m p i n g her bond, and yet the police judge,
in his wisdom and mature judgment, pro­
posed putting the editor of this paper, who
had committed no crime, and who is certainly
of respectable standing i n this community,
under a bond of $5,000!
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" N o w let us see what w i l l be the effect o f
this course: The law w i l l not p u n i s h verbal
assaults on white women by Negroes, and yet
it prohibits personal punishment. A nigger
w i l l do a n y t h i n g i f he thinks he has a white
man behind h i m . I n this case the nigger
knew that Stewart was protected by M r .
Gregory, who, by the way, is an alderman,
and by the whole city administration. This
w i l l be construed by them as license to offer
other insults, and no woman i n the future
w i l l be safe against them.
The niggers,
under the circumstances, w i l l be justified i n
believing that they can do a n y t h i n g with
impunity.
W e must make them feel that
they must respect white men and white
women, whether they w i l l or not. I n default
of the law, i n d i v i d u a l w i l l must a n d shall
control.
" F o r many years the white people o f the
South have asserted and maintained moral,
social and political supremacy. M o r a l and
intellectual superiority has been a l l that
has sustained such supremacy.
S u c h cases
as the one under discussion w i l l soon destroy
the Negro's belief i n the superiority—hence
the supremacy—of the white man.
"The lesson taught by the official act o f the
mayor, the alderman and the police justice
w i l l not be lost on the ignorant black race.
Its f r u i t w i l l r i p e n i n the blood of white
men, i n nameless crimes on innocent white
women, and i n other outrages on the white
race—and the responsibility w i l l rest—not
upon the ignorant race—but upon the heads
of the shortsighted white officials who, under
the flimsy cry o f a 'duty to p e r f o r m , ' u p ­
hold a nigger against a white man f o r
taking a course that every self-respecting
white man should feel was the only course
left f o r any white man to take under the
circumstances."
W e confess to a sneaking sympathy w i t h
the persecuted editor, and we fear that there
w i l l be a political upheaval i n Y a z o o C i t y
at the next election.
The M a c o n Telegraph comes f o r w a r d w i t h
a suggestion that the abatement o f l y n c h i n g
has at least the charm o f novelty. We- give
it i n the correspondent's w o r d s :
"The g r a n d juries, petit juries and w i t ­
nesses are alike u n w i l l i n g to sacrifice a large
number of the members of their best f a m i ­
lies to avenge the u n l a w f u l k i l l i n g o f one
sorry Negro. I f the laws were so framed
that the penalty f o r p a r t i c i p a t i n g i n a
l y n c h i n g should be a misdemeanor, I don't
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believe that any t h i n k i n g person w i l l doubt
for a moment that the evidence to convict
would be forthcoming i n nearly every case
of lynching, and that grand juries would
willingly and gladly probe this class o f cases
with a view to breaking up the- offense, and
that petit juries would w i l l i n g l y do their
part toward breaking up the offense by con­
victing where the evidence authorized it.
Furthermore, it is almost certain that where
the people believe that they w i l l be brought
to the bars of justice and punished for com­
mitting this violation o f the law, they will
go much slower i n organizing a mob for
lynching a Negro, whereas, under
the
present conditions they feel practically as­
sured f r o m the beginning that there is
absolutely no danger of any punishment
whatever i n the courts.
' ' U n d e r our present law every lynching
constitutes what is called a 'riot,' which is a
misdemeanor.
I f our laws should be so
made that a lynching constituted a riot only,
and not the graver offense o f murder, it is
almost certain that lynchings would be
greatly reduced, i f not entirely broken u p .
Though such an act by our lawmaking body
might subject them to temporary criticism on
the part of Northern writers and speakers,
yet it is not probable that such criticism
would be much more severe than it is now.
However, any p l a n which w i l l tend to break
u p the lynchings i n Georgia would be wel­
come i n the l o n g r u n by all good people who
are interested i n maintaining the supremacy
of the law and the f a i r name of Georgia as
well as of the South.
W . H . GrjRR.
"Dawson, A u g u s t 16."
The Charlotte ( N . C.) Observer speaks
out w i t h regard to the lynching there i n no
uncertain w a y :
"Yesterday
m o r n i n g found
Charlotte
humiliated as never before by an occurrence
unparalleled i n its history, but at least it
has the consolation that as a community it
did not perpetrate and utterly abhors the
crime. The small mob which sneaked, just
before daylight, to the door of an institu­
tion devoted to the w o r k of ministering
religion among colored people was repre­
sentative of no element except the riffraff
that habitually hangs around cafes and the
red-light district at late hours o f the night.
This statement must be qualified i n one way.
That mob represented a sentiment well
known by it to exist also among some mem­
bers of the police, the man wounded by the
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victim o f the mob being a member of the
police force. W e do not at present under­
take to say whether at least morally posi­
tive assurances of police non-interference had
been received. It is certain that the police
headquarters (as also the sheriff and the
night newspaper reporters) were circum­
stantially informed from several quarters of
a lynching afoot; and that the newspaper
men, believing, later guided themselves by
'the story to the spot almost on the moment,
while the officers could not be gotten i n ­
terested enough. * * *
" I n the light of these facts we can but
say that the county was very poorly served
by those upon whom the immediate respon­
sibility for averring threatened lawlessness
and murder fell. It need not fear that the
machinery of the courts for punishing
murder w i l l fail without good efforts made.
There could not be a fitter judge than Judge
T. J . Shaw, solemnly and whole-heartedly to
direct investigation into this abominable out­
rage—committed while his court was i n
session here.
Solicitor W i l s o n has turned
over a l l his regular docket to former
Solicitor H e r i o t Clarkson that he might
direct his entire energies to punishing the
thirty-five murderers, who, as Judge Shaw
reminded the grand j u r y , are at large to­
day. N o court business that could possibly
interfere with this solemn duty w i l l be done.
The shamed and outraged sentiment of the
public is behind the representatives o f the
civilization which the mob violated, most
earnestly hoping that initial difficulties and
perjured alibis will not prevent their success.
M a y o r B l a n d , acting with promptness and
vigor, has offered $1,000 reward for the
arrest and conviction of each and every
murderer; and the State and county authori­
ties w i l l offer more.
The only lynching
Mecklenburg County has ever known i n all
its long and honorable history! The first
lynching to disgrace the State of N o r t h
Carolina in years. Justice cries to Heaven
for the vindication of the honor of city,
county and State."
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THE
AGITATION
started
by
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People against
the unjust and undemocratic segregation of
Federal employees in Washington has started
an agitation of deep significance.
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THE
F r o m Tacoma, Wash., comes this editorial
i n the News:
"The
protest
to President W o o d r o w
W i l s o n against the segregation of Negro
clerks i n the Federal offices in Washington,
with i r o n bars, screens and closed doors, is
justified by the laws of the land and the
dictates of freedom and fairness. It is but
a part of the ' J i m C r o w ' movement which,
while the South may understand, the N o r t h
cannot, nor can the N o r t h sympathize w i t h
it. The Southern democracy is i n the saddle
and the colored man as an officeholder is not
a desirable political aspect w i t h the domi­
nant party.
The South's attitude toward
the colored man is not that o f hostility,
but o f a k i n d of paternal guardianship mixed
sharply with the belief that the white is of
much superior clay. There won't be much
difference i n the last b i g wash.
" B u t the feeling exists and eradication is
a question of years and education—education
of both whites and blacks.
"The other day the dominant p a r t y re­
jected the nomination of a colored man for
an important post and soon afterward en­
dorsed an I n d i a n for the same post w i t h
a
rather
unexpected
unanimity
and
enthusiasm.
" W e shall have the Negro w i t h us f o r
many a year, and some of those who are
studying the race problem have expressed
the belief that the attitude of the white, and
not a racial blemish, is a chief hindrance to
the Negro's progress. B u t he is progressing.
No race yet has shown such an adaptability
for, such a facility to, civilization. H e is
getting rich, learned and cultivated. H e is
r u n n i n g all kinds of profitable business en­
terprises and he is building schools, churches
and libraries w i t h a persistence that predicts
great things f o r h i m i n the years to come.
"Instead of grilled windows and barred
doors to keep h i m ' i n his place,' the
politicians w i l l find that it w i l l be of less
political loss to discharge him. The k i n d of
segregation alleged w i l l not be objected to by
the Negro alone.
There are thousands of
white men and women who w i l l add their
voices."
The Public, of Chicago, sees the deeper
significance of the segregation movement
in an article on segregation and democracy:
"A
violation
of civil-service
reform
principles, less excusable than any com­
mitted by spoilsmen, is the recent order of
the Federal B u r e a u of P r i n t i n g and E n g r a v ­
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ing segregating colored employees.
The
order reserves certain duties f o r colored
workmen only and other duties f o r whites
exclusively.
A protest has been sent to
President W i l s o n by the N a t i o n a l A s s o c i a ­
tion f o r the Advancement o f
Colored
P e o p l e ; but it should not be left to that
organization to protest alone. The issue i n ­
volved is not merely one o f respecting the
feelings of colored persons.
The bugaboo
of 'social equality' does not enter into the
matter at a l l . The first t h i n g to bear i n m i n d
is that the B u r e a u of P r i n t i n g and E n g r a v ­
i n g does not exist f o r the purpose o f f o r m u ­
l a t i n g rules of social etiquette. It exists to
perform certain work f o r the government.
I n the performance o f that w o r k it is the
duty of those i n charge to put the most
competent employees i n the places where
they can p e r f o r m the best service.
This
cannot be done i f p l a c i n g of employees is
made to depend on other qualifications than
personal fitness. D i s c r i m i n a t i o n against an
employee for no better reason than his
choice of ancestors is as bad as f a v o r i t i s m .
I n p r i n c i p l e and i n effect this segregation
order is the same as nepotism. It is a f a r
greater injustice to the government than it
is to its Negro employees. I f civil-service
reform organizations and civil-service re­
formers shut their eyes to this v i o l a t i o n of
civil-service r e f o r m p r i n c i p l e s , then they
cannot consistently object to a return of the
old spoils system. F e a r of offending antiNegro prejudice is no excuse f o r such
neglect.
" O f course there are better reasons f o r
objecting to this segregation order than vio­
lation of civil-service r e f o r m p r i n c i p l e s . The
order is undemocratic. I n d i v i d u a l s have a
perfect right, f o r any reason or f o r no
reason, to refuse to associate w i t h other
individuals. B u t they have no right to force
third parties to conform to their likes or dis­
likes. This order places the government of
the U n i t e d States i n the position of endors­
i n g a prejudice which some individuals feel
toward a certain class o f citizens.
The
government has no right to recognize social
distinctions among citizens.
Least o f a l l
has the government of the U n i t e d States a
right to recognize an aristocracy o f birth.
The order should be rescinded and the official
or officials responsible therefor given a muchneeded lesson i n sound democracy and true
Americanism.
" B u t there is a lesson i n this incident that
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should not be lost either on the Negroes or on
the N a t i o n a l Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, an organization composed
largely of whites. The injustice done by this
segregation order is slight compared w i t h
other wrong's upon which most Negroes and
their friends look indifferently or even ap­
provingly. The infliction of an i n d i g n i t y or
insult on a person should not be as galling
as the fact that conditions compel submis­
sion to the affront lest an opportunity be
lost to earn a l i v i n g .
W e r e one-half the
indignation vented in fruitless protests
against the affront directed toward the con­
ditions which compel submission it could be
put to a far more effective use. Legalized
privilege creates these conditions and forces
white as well as Negro laborers to submit to
many things against which their manhood
rebels.
It is against privilege that their
protests should be leveled.
Yet many a
colored man whom a thoughtless use of the
epithet 'nigger' w i l l inflame to madness w i l l
east his vote to uphold privilege. So w i l l
many a white worker groaning under the
burdens that privilege inflicts. It is useless
to endeavor to escape injustice while up­
holding the cause o f i t . "
The New Y o r k Evening Post comments
on a "true note o f the new South," which
"comes to us i n an editorial i n the L e x i n g t o n
( K y . ) Herald i n regard to the segregation of
the colored employees of the government at
Washington. ' K n o w i n g , ' it says, 'that many
w i l l disagree with our views, and condemn
bitterly our expression thereof,' it none the
less protests against this policy of the
national government, 'the effect of which,
transmitted to lower channels, may be most
disastrous. N o greater calamity could befall
this nation,' it insists, 'than to have included
in its inhabitants millions of people of any
race in whose face the door of hope is shut,
who are not permitted to aspire to free and
independent citizenship, and to strive for
equal political, financial and industrial re­
ward that brawn or intellect brings to those
of any race.' These are brave words indeed,
in shining contrast with the utterances of
so many Southern senators who claim to
represent their section, and who certainly do
represent the reactionaries and the ignorant.
The L e x i n g t o n Herald,
edited by Desha
Breckinridge, bears witness to that r i s i n g
tide o f protest and dissatisfaction with exist­
ing race relations which found a notable ex­
pression, in a purely scientific way, at the
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recent meeting of the Southern Sociological
Congress. The lime must come when it is a
commonplace to say, as does the
Herald,
that 'no greater misfortune has come to the
South in our judgment than the enactment
of those laws the purpose of which is to pre­
vent a l l Negroes from voting.' W h a t a p i t y
it is that the W i l s o n administration must
bear the odium of this segregation policy."
The
Congregationalist
and
Christian
World repeats the facts in an editorial en­
titled " T u r n i n g the Negro B a c k " :
" D u r i n g the last few months orders have
been issued in the Treasury and Post Office
Departments which require white and colored
employees to use separate toilet rooms, to
be separated i n lunchrooms, and most of the
colored clerks i n the Post Office Department
have been gathered f r o m the various bureaus
and assembled i n the Dead Letter Office, i n a
room where they are separated from white
clerks by a row of lockers placed across the
middle of the room. One important colored
clerk, whose location cannot be changed con­
veniently, has been screened off, so as to con­
ceal h i m from the public view and from his
fellow workers. Two or three others have
been assigned to messenger service, although
having appointments as clerks. Watchmen
are stationed at the doors of the toilet rooms
to see that colored clerks use the special ones
assigned to them on the eighth floor of the
Post Office Department building. I n addition
to the humiliation involved i n segregation,
thousands of dollars are being lost i n time
spent i n going to the eighth floor from other
floors of a great building occupying a city
square, although toilet rooms heretofore
used are near to a l l . I n the Treasury
Department the toilet rooms assigned to
colored clerks are i n a corner of the base­
ment, and i n this great building similar loss
of time occurs.
"Soon after the issuance of these orders in
the Treasury Department segregation signs
were posted. F o l l o w i n g a protest the signs
were taken down, but verbal warnings affirm
that the order is in force. Segregation i n
work has been begun i n the B u r e a u of P r i n t ­
ing and E n g r a v i n g . Colored clerks who have
been reluctant to submit have been ad­
monished sharply, and a state of alarm has
spread among the colored employees of all
executive departments.
The fear that they
may lose their positions has led some of those
segregated to seek favor f r o m the administra­
tion by declaring that they are pleased with
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A correspondent writes to the Chicago
the new plan. They dare not protest, but
Evening Post and says among other t h i n g s :
privately they declare their indignation and
" A d m i t t i n g that the prejudices of the white
disapproval.
Southern opposition has de­
race against the black race is u n k i n d , per­
prived colored men of some of the few high
haps unjust i n many o f its results, i t exists,
appointive positions that have been occupied
and cannot be removed by f o r c i n g them into
for many years by members of their race.
relations of i n t i m a c y which are offensive,
The post of Register of the Treasury and that
of minister to the 'black republic' of H a y t i intensely offensive i n many instances, to the
white race.
are the most noteworthy instances.
"There may be white native-born A m e r i ­
"Meantime Senators V a r d a m a n , T i l l m a n ,
cans, even persons of colonial descent, who
H o k e Smith and other Southern members of
believe that the Negro should be treated pre­
Congress declare their purpose to force race
cisely as a white person of equal mental
segregation throughout a l l branches of the
and moral attributes, and received on an
Federal government.
Senator V a r d a m a n
equal footing i n business and social life. I
proposes to introduce a series of bills i n
have never k n o w n such a person, and i f I
December, the ultimate-effect of which would
should meet one who professed that degree
be to expel Negroes from a l l government
of liberality I should consider that he was
positions. H e says the holding of office is
self-deceived or something worse. W h a t call
the symbol of sovereignty, and Negroes
has the F e d e r a l government to enforce upon
must not exercise sovereignty; and then he
its employees an association which cannot
quotes Alexander Stephens' declaration that
but result i n the intensification o f their exist­
slavery was the natural and normal position
E s p e c i a l l y when the
of the Negro. Two bills have been intro­ i n g race prejudices?
only other result attained is to g r a t i f y the
duced i n Congress to require separate street
natural propensity of the N e g r o to force
cars for white and colored people i n the
himself where he is not w a n t e d ? "
District of Columbia. Injustice once started
To this the Post r e p l i e s :
is bound to spread apace.
" F o r white people to 'get along w i t h '
" S i x months ago a new administration
colored people on a democratic basis as
came into power at Washington. It came
fellow citizens, or even as fellow employees,
with promise of a ' N e w Freedom' to all our
let us say, instead of as 'superiors' and
people, avowing the s p i r i t of C h r i s t i a n
'inferiors,' requires breadth and intelligence,
democracy.
It came under obligation to
sympathy and insight. E n o u g h white people
many colored voters, who threw aside past
have done it to prove that it can be done,
political allegiance, worked for and voted
even though our correspondent seems never
for the election of a ticket the head of which
to have met anyone equal to the task. O u r
gave this assurance to the colored people:
own observations lead us to t h i n k that the
'Should I become President of the United
difficulties are i n certain minds absurdly
States they may count on me for absolute
exaggerated.
f a i r dealing and for everything by which I
could assist in advancing the interests of
" B u t it would be h a r d to exaggerate the
their race i n the United States.' "
difficulties which w i l l ultimately confront
It concludes with these r i n g i n g w o r d s :
us when we have followed the policy of
" A wave of racial prejudice is sweeping
segregation to its logical conclusion and have
over the w o r l d — i n Canada, i n I n d i a , i n
undertaken to force 10,000,000 o f colored—
A f r i c a , i n other lands. It leads to hate and
and
near-colored—people
into
a
rigid
w r o n g and strife.
Shall we make matters
economic and social caste. There are some
worse or shall we now take w a r n i n g ere too who can contemplate comfortably the spec­
late, and choose the better way, the way o f
tacle o f the suffering which that w i l l inflict
true democracy, the C h r i s t i a n w a y ?
This
upon the colored race, but it w o u l d prove
government is the Negroes' as well as ours,
utterly intolerable to millions of white people
colored Americans are our fellow citizens.
as it must prove to the colored people them­
The black man is the brother of the white
selves. W e are a century too late f o r such
man i n the sight of G o d . W h a t , therefore, medieval solution. W e aren't, as the say­
is the Christian white man's dutv i n a time
ing is, 'cut out f o r it.'
A n d while the
like this?
democratic solution is slow and difficult and
possibly even p a i n f u l at times, it is as solid
"Protest against the w r o n g ; demand
as the hills i n its foundations."
justice; keep on demanding it until we w i n . "
OPINION
BALTIMORE.
A l t h o u g h the f u l l text o f the
decision of the
Court of
A p p e a l s has not been handed down at this
writing , the Baltimore city council is already
at work on a new segregation ordinance, and
the courts have granted an injunction against
the M o r g a n College, a colored institution,
which is t r y i n g to get out of the crowded
city quarters. Charles J . Bonaparte says i n
the Baltimore Evening Sun i n regard to the
difficulties o f f r a m i n g a legal ordinance:
-
''These difficulties arise very largely from
the fact that the Fourteenth Amendment pre­
vents these enactments f r o m saying plainly
what their authors mean, and obliges the lat­
ter to profess a purpose which they do not
really entertain.
W h a t they wish is to
keep Negroes out o f desirable neighborhoods;
i f they could provide by law that, within the
city limits, no Negro should live on a high­
way more than twenty feet wide or own or
rent a house of more than twelve feet front,
this would perfectly satisfy them, and
they would pay no more heed to the question
whether white people also lived on these
alleys, as the Negroes' neighbors, than has
ever been p a i d by our m u n i c i p a l govern­
ment since we had such a government i n
Baltimore.
Unfortunately f o r their chari­
table and enlightened ends, they can't now
banish by law the 'niggers' to the slums, as
they might have done fifty years ago; and
this lamentable condition o f affairs compels
them to affect a ridiculously insincere solici­
tude lest the same p r o x i m i t y to black people
which the white people of Baltimore have
endured without apparent i n j u r y for more
than a century should suddenly become dis­
astrous to the morals and manners of the
very same white people.
N o w it is well
settled that the Fourteenth Amendment does
not forbid the consideration of race dif­
ferences i n legislation relating to such
subjects as intermarriage, coeducation or
even conveyance by common carriers, pro­
vided such legislation is not discriminatory
against any one o f the races affected by i t ;
and the authors of our 'segregation' ordi­
nances have tried to b r i n g them within the
class of laws thus upheld by imposing the
same, or strictly analogous, prohibitions as to
residence upon white men which they do
upon Negroes.
U n d e r the first o f M r .
Dashiell's ordinances, i f the writer's memory
serves him aright, a white woman was
actually prosecuted for coming back to live
335
i n her own house after a colored tenant had
given it up I
"The writer understands the Court of
A p p e a l s to have intimated that the city has
power, under its charter, to prohibit persons
of different races from l i v i n g within the
same designated areas, i f (and this is a
rather large ' i f ' ) it can manage to do this
without i n f r i n g i n g the vested rights of
property owners within the several areas thus
designated, these vested rights of property
being protected by other language in the
Fourteenth Amendment and by our State
constitution as well. Doubtless it w i l l not
prove impossible for competent counsel to
prepare an enactment .which may run the
gantlet of this test; but to do this w i l l not
be child's play and is rendered the more
difficult by the well-established rule of law
which obliges the courts to pass on the
reasonableness of a municipality's exercise
of its charter powers. The writer has no
apologies to make to anybody for describing
the whole business as petty, impolitic,
medieval i n conception, injurious to the
best interests o f the city, worthy, perhaps,
of Russia, certainly of Governor Blease and
Senator V a r d a m a n and the communities
which admire and trust those great men, but
unworthy of M a r y l a n d and especially of
B a l t i m o r e ; i f anybody from the South,
North, East or West doesn't like this descrip­
tion, he is at perfect liberty to dislike i t . "
A white real-estate owner adds this letter
in the Baltimore Evening
Sun:
" S I R : I herewith beg to deny that Negroes
are moving into 'the most desirable sections
or our f a i r city.' The assertion is pure rot!
Facts are the things that teach! The record
office records the fact that the writer is the
owner of property on D r u i d H i l l Avenue,
M c C u l l o h Street, Madison Avenue, Linden
Avenue, Bolton Street, P a r k Avenue, M a r y ­
land Avenue and intermediate points.
I
have lived i n the said section for at least
fifty years; this is another fact. It is also a
fact that i f I had not been acquainted with
what appreciated and depreciated property
i n that time I would have been i n Bayview
at the present time.
" D i d any one of your segregationists ever
hear what the Pennsylvania R a i l r o a d did to
M a r y l a n d Avenue? H e doesn't have to take
my word for it. A l l he has to do is to look and
see. The soot and the smoke and the cinders
are still there. The r i p and the roar and
the j a r of traffic are yet heard in the land.
THE
336
F o r m e r l y it was the custom to drive cattle,
steers, sheep and hogs to the depots i n the
vicinity.
This odor, mixed w i t h 'a savory
odor of Standard O i l , ' about emptied the
street.
" A n d yet another fact appears, v i z . : E v e r y
good Baltimorean f o r m e r l y stored his filth
i n a well i n his back yard. This custom like­
wise generated an odor which was a jewel i n
its way. I affirm that such circumstances
have and w i l l depreciate the value of any
property i n any section. I affirm the Negro
had no more to do w i t h it than I had.
I
deny that the Negro has depreciated property
on M a r y l a n d Avenue, for the simple reason
that the property was depreciated before the
Negro got there. I n fact, the property is
now more valuable than when the whites left.
" A short time ago a ground rent was
offered for sale on the said avenue.
The
investor refused to buy on account of the
colored man's presence.
A f t e r further i n ­
spection it was discovered the Negro paid
more rent for the leasehold, and p a i d it more
promptly, than the former white tenant. The
investor on this showing purchased the
ground rent, the same being recorded i n the
name of my unworthy self.
" I defy anyone to dispute these facts. I
have taken M a r y l a n d Avenue as i n some
degree an example of what happened to the
other streets. I n this matter your correspon­
dent has certain views on segregation which
may or may not be expressed later. W e may
not love the colored brother, but it is not
necessary to lie about h i m .
"WILLIAM
P.
CHUNK,
M.
D.
•"Baltimore, August 23."
Another one says:
"It has been my experience not to have
"found the small colored population of former
white neighborhoods a direct cause for
property depreciation as much as that of
other nationalities i n certain sections of the
•city.
Take, for example, West Fayette,
Lexington and L o m b a r d Streets, near F r e ­
mont Street. There are no colored inhabit­
ants there, and yet what part of the city
has
suffered
more
from
property
depreciation ?
"There are many reasons attributed to
changes i n neighborhoods, and simply be­
cause the respectable colored people wish to
improve their home conditions by coming
CRISIS
from alleys out into the open it does not
follow they desire to drive white residents
from their homes. On D r u i d H i l l A v e n u e ,
which is entirely occupied b y colored people
now, as far north as N o r t h A v e n u e , p r o p e r t y
values are f a r more substantial than they
were some years ago when the houses were
owned by white people, who cared f o r and
sought more modern houses elsewhere, and
were only too glad to dispose o f their p r o p ­
erties to colored people."
A n echo to this f r o m Y o n k e r s , N . Y . , has
brought
the
following
letter
to
the
Statesman :
" A n article i n two of our local papers o f
yesterday would convey to the m i n d of the
reading public an existing condition which
is new and s u r p r i s i n g to me.
" I have been i n Y o n k e r s since the 60's,
and have always had reason to believe that
the people here looked u p o n the w o r t h y
Negro w i t h commendation when he had taken
any step that pointed to a betterment o f
his condition, and I sincerely hope the realestate dealer w i l l not be responsible f o r the
suggested barbarism as the coat of tar and
feathers proposed to be meted out to future
purchasers of homes i n certain o f our
Yonkers sections.
"FRANCIS J .
SOLUTION
WANTED.
MOULTRIE."
" W a n t e d — S o l u t i o n to the R a c e
Problem.
This problem
has
bothered us long enough.
Must
have
solution
at
once.
Lynchings,
assimilation, democracy and other
pro­
posals have been t r i e d without success.
Solution must make it clear how the
South can continue to enslave the Negro
without violating the Constitution of the
U n i t e d States, and how the N o r t h can con­
tinue to profess a love f o r the N e g r o without
allowing h i m to enter into active competition.
The solution must show, i n short, how the
shrewd A m e r i c a n Northerner a n d Southerner
can continue to get a l l the advantages from
the i m p o r t a t i o n of an unassimilable race
without getting any of the disadvantages.
This is not so difficult as it sounds. It is
certainly no more difficult than the tariff or
the currency. Suitable r e w a r d to right party.
Address Servitude, W a s h i n g t o n , B . T . " —
Life.
EDITORIAL
•SOUTHERNERS."
WE A R E
d e l i g h t e d to l e a r n
that W a l t e r H . Page,
former
editor of
the
World's
Work
and now
A m b a s s a d o r to G r e a t
B r i t a i n ,
is not
a
'Southerner."
T h i s p o i n t is d e f i n i t e l y
s e t t l e d b y the e d i t o r s o f a S o u t h e r n
magazine published i n N e w Y o r k for
t h e c o n v e r s i o n o f the h e a t h e n .
4
W e h a d l o n g suspected this.
We
h a v e u s e d the t e r m " S o u t h e r n e r " i n a
r e s t r i c t e d sense.
It d i d not refer, for
i n s t a n c e , to a p e r s o n b o r n i n the S o u t h ,
otherwise
(Heaven
forfend!)
there
w o u l d
be
some
8,000,000 b l a c k
' S o u t h e r n e r s ' ' — a n u n t h i n k a b l e t h i n g.
" S o u t h e r n e r " means something special,
l i m i t e d , definite. It c o u l d not refer to
W a l t e r Page.
M r . Page, for instance,
h a s w o r k e d f o r the s o c i a l u p l i f t o f the
N e g r o , he has m e t N e g r o e s o n t e r m s o f
e q u a l i t y , t r e a t i n g t h e m , i n d e e d , as gen­
tlemen.
H e believes i n the r i g h t o f
b l a c k m e n to v o t e a n d a s p i r e .
4
Now
a l l t h i s we l e a r n , o n
the
a u t h o r i t y o f Neale's Monthly,
precludes
M r . Page from being a " S o u t h e r n e r . "
A " S o u t h e r n e r , " i t seems, m u s t be a
m a n w h o has a s s i m i l a t e d n o n e w i d e a s
a s to d e m o c r a c y a n d s o c i a l classes s i n c e
1 8 6 3 ; he m u s t be " h a u g h t y , " i n t o l e r a n t
a n d snobbish. H i s ancestors must have
b e e n " a r i s t o c r a t s " a n d he m u s t h a v e
h a d a b l a c k m a m m y w h o m he l o v e d ,
a n d as a n e v i d e n c e o f t h i s l o v e he n o w
and then lynches her grandchildren.
B u t the " S o u t h e r n e r " has one c h a r a c ­
t e r i s t i c a b o v e t h i s : he h a t e s N i g g e r s ;
he
pursues
them
vindictively;
he
chases a d r o p o f N e g r o b l o o d l i k e a
sleuth.
H e makes it his chief business
i n l i f e to h o u n d , o p p r e s s a n d i n s u l t
b l a c k f o l k , a n d to t e l l t h e m p e r s o n a l l y
as o f t e n as he c a n h o w u t t e r l y he
despises
them—except
their
women,
p r i v a t e l y . T h e s e he l i k e s . T h e " S o u t h ­
e r n e r " is i n t e n s e l y r e l i g i o u s a n d set o n
foreign missions. H e especially wishes
to c o n v e r t the h e a t h e n i n C h i n a a n d
the C o n g o V a l l e y . H e is also a f a m i l i a r
f r i e n d of G o d a n d k n o w s more about
the r e l i g i o n o f J e s u s C h r i s t t h a n a n y
other C h r i s t i a n .
T h i s i s the p i c t u r e o f the " S o u t h ­
e r n e r " d r a w n b y Neale's
Monthly
and
elaborated by T H E
CRISIS.
Is i t a t r u e p i c t u r e o f the s i x t e e n o r
m o r e m i l l i o n s o f w h i t e s i n the S o u t h ?
C e r t a i n l y not. I t is a l a u g h a b l e c a r i c a ­
t u r e . B u t — a n d t h i s is the s e r i o u s p a r t
— i t is a t r u e p i c t u r e o f c e r t a i n d o m i ­
n a n t e l e m e n t s i n the w h i t e S o u t h , a n d
the rest o f the w h i t e S o u t h is w i l l i n g
to let t h a t t y p e o f " S o u t h e r n e r " r e p r e ­
sent it.
Thus they repudiate W a l t e r
P a g e a n d accept James K . V a r d a m a n .
THE
SIMPLE W A Y .
S O M E w a y s o f l i f e are so
simple.
T h e r e was, f o r
instance, a few
years
ago, a s o l u t i o n o f the
N e g r o p r o b l e m so
ridiculously simple that
those w h o d i d n o t ' r e c e i v e i t as g o s p e l
were hooted i f not stoned.
The gist
was t h i s :
The Negro must
salvation.
w o r k out
his own
338
THE
The Negro must make himself useful
to his neighbors.
The Negro must not complain.
Duties must be taught Negroes—
never mind their rights.
Negroes must let politics alone.
Money talks—let the Negro get a
$5,000 brick house and his individual
problem is solved.
Etc., etc.
A l l this the Negro has done. He has
striven to solve his problems unaided.
He is so useful to his neighbors that
the problem of to-morrow will be the
Southern millionaire waxed fat on the
starvation wages of black peons.
The mass of Negroes has been so
ground down and oppressed that they
do not know what complaint is.
If
they did, segregation, the " J i m Crow"
car and disfranchisement would dis­
appear to-morrow. We have shivered
in the storm like dumb driven cattle
and forgotten our rights before we
learned them. We have "let politics
alone" so effectually that we practically
have no voice in our own government,
and we have accumulated brick houses
so fast that from Boston to Galveston
white nerves are being strained to
drive us out of them.
We are therefore listening to those
eminent and distinguished solvers of
the Negro problem, white and black,
who, with hat in hand, have in the last
twenty years been lulling this nation
to sleep and also feathering their own
nests; we are listening for further
advice and direction along the simple
way.
HOWELLS
A N DB L A C K
FOLK.
IN the composite picture
which William D e a n
Howells, as his life work,
has painted of America
he has not hesitated to be
truthful and to include the most signifi­
CRISIS
cant thing in the land—the black man.
With lie and twistings most Americans
seek to ignore the mighty and portentous
shadow of ten growing millions, or, if it
insists on darkening the landscape, to
label it as joke or crime. But Howells, in
his "Imperative D u t y , " faced our
national foolishness and shuffling and
evasion. Here was a white girl engaged
to a white man who discovers herself to
be "black." The problem looms before
her as tremendous, awful. The world
wavers. She peers beyond the Veil and
shudders and then—tells her story
frankly, marries her man, and goes her
way as thousands of others have done
and are doing.
It was Howells, too, that discovered
Dunbar. We have had a score of artists
and poets in black America, but few
critics dared call them so'. Most of them,
therefore, starved; or, like Timrod,
"passed" as white. Howells dared take
Dunbar by the hand and say to the
world, not simply here is a black artist,
but here is an artist who happens to be
black. Not only that, but as an artist
Dunbar had studied black folk and
realized the soul of this most artistic of
all races. "I said," wrote Howells,
"that a race which had come to this
effect in any member of it had attained
civilization in him, and I permitted my­
self the imaginative prophecy that the
hostilities and the prejudices which had
so long constrained his race were
destined to vanish in the arts; that these
were to be the final proof that God had
made one blood of all nations of men."
Finally when, on the centenary of
Lincoln's birth, a band of earnest men
said, we must finish the work of Negro
emancipation and break the spiritual
bonds that still enslave this people,
William Dean Howells was among the
first to sign the call. From this call came
the
National Association
for
the
Advancement of Colored People and
T H E CRISIS magazine.
The National Emancipation Exposition
g§
IN N E W Y O R K
CITY, O C T O B E R
THE pageant of Negro history
as written by W. E. B. Du
Bois
and
produced
by
Charles Burroughs,
Master;
Daisy
Tapley, Dora Cole
Norman,
Marie
Stuart
Jackson, Augustus G. Dill
and 350 others, during the exhibition,
and
entitled "The People of Peoples and Their
Gifts to Men."
PRELUDE.
The lights of the Court of Freedom blaze.
A trumpet blast is heard and four heralds,
black and of gigantic stature, appear with
silver trumpets and standing at the four
corners of the temple of beauty c r y :
" H e a r ye, hear y e ! M e n of a l l the A m e r i ­
cas, and listen to the tale of the eldest and
strongest of the races of mankind, whose
faces be black. H e a r ye, hear ye, of the
gifts of black men to this world, the I r o n
Gift and Gift of F a i t h , the P a i n of H u m i l i t y
and the Sorrow S o n g o f P a i n , the G i f t of
Freedom and of Laughter, and the undying
Gift of H o p e .
M e n of the world, keep
silence and hear ye t h i s ! "
F o u r banner bearers come forward and
stand along the four walls of the temple. O n
their banners is w r i t t e n :
"The F i r s t Gift of the Negro to the world,
being the G i f t of I r o n . This picture shall
tell how, i n the deep and beast-bred forests of
A f r i c a , mankind first learned the welding of
iron, and thus defense against the l i v i n g and
the dead."
W h a t the banners tell the heralds solemnly
proclaim.
Whereat comes the
First Episode.
The Gift of Iron:
The lights grow dim. The roar of beasts
is heard and the crash of the storm. L i g h t ­
nings flash. The dark figure of an A f r i c a n
savage
hurries
across the
foreground,
frightened
and
cowering and
dancing.
Another follows defying the lightning and is
struck d o w n ; others come until the space is
filled w i t h 100 huddling, crowding savages.
Some brave the storm, some p r a y their Gods
with incantation
and i m p l o r i n g dance.
Mothers shield their children, and husbands
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their wives.
A t last, dimly enhaloed i n
mysterious light, the Veiled W o m a n appears,
commanding in stature and splendid i n gar­
ment, her dark face faintly visible, and in her
right hand F i r e , and I r o n i n her left. A s
she passes slowly round the Court
the
rythmic roll of tomtoms begins. Then music
is heard; anvils r i n g at the four corners.
The arts flourish, huts arise, beasts are
brought i n and there is j o y , feasting and
dancing.
A trumpet blast
heralds proclaim
The Second
Episode,
calls silence
and
the
saying:
" H e a r ye, hear y e ! A l l them that come to
know the Truth, and listen to the tale of
the wisest and gentlest of the races of men
whose faces be black. H e a r ye, hear ye, of
the Second Gift of black men to this world,
the Gift of Civilization i n the dark and
splendid valley of the Nile.
Men of the
world, keep silence and hear ye this." The
banners of the banner bearers change and
read:
"The Second Gift of the Negro to the
world, being the Gift of the Nile.
This
picture tells how the meeting of Negro and
Semite i n ancient days made the civiliza­
tion of E g y p t the first i n the w o r l d . "
There comes a strain of mighty music, dim
i n the distance and drawing nearer. The 100
savages thronged round the whole Court
rise and stand listening. Slowly there come
fifty veiled figures and with them come the
Sphinx, P y r a m i d , the Obelisk and the empty
Throne of the Pharaoh drawn by oxen. A s
the cavalcade passes, the savages, wondering,
threatening, inquiring, file by it. Suddenly
a black chieftain appears in the entrance,
with the Uraeus i n one hand and the winged
Beetle i n the other. The E g y p t i a n s unveil
and display Negroes and mulattoes clothed
i n the splendor of the E g y p t i a n Court. The
savages salaam; all greet h i m as R a , the
Negro. H e mounts the throne and the caval­
cade, led by posturing dancers and R a , and
followed by E g y p t i a n s and savages, pass i n
procession around to the right to the thunder
of music and tomtoms. A s they pass, R a is
crowned as Priest and K i n g .
W h i l e the
Queen of Sheba and Candace of E t h i o p i a
join the procession at intervals.
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Slowly a l l pass out save fifty savages, who
linger examining their gifts.
The lights
grow d i m as E g y p t i a n culture dies and the
fifty savages compose themselves to sleep. A s
they sleep the light returns and the heralds
proclaim
The Third Episode,
saying:
" H e a r ye, hear ye! A l l them that come
to see the light and listen to the tale of the
bravest and truest of the races of men, whose
faces be black. H e a r ye, hear ye, of the
T h i r d Gift of black men to this w o r l d — a
Gift of F a i t h i n Righteousness hoped f o r
but u n k n o w n ; men of the world, keep silence
and hear ye this!" The banners change and
read:
"The T h i r d Gift of the Negro to the
world, being a Gift of F a i t h . This episode
tells how the Negro race spread the faith
of Mohammed over half the world and built
a new culture thereon."
There is a sound of battle. The savages
leap to their feet. Mohammed and fifty f o l ­
lowers w h i r l in and rushing to the right beat
the savages back. F i f t y Songhay enter and
attack the Mohammedans.
Fifty
other
Mohammedans enter and attack the Songhay.
T u r n i n g , the Songhay bear the last group of
Mohammedans back to the left where they
clash w i t h the savages.
Mohammedan
priests strive and exhort among the war­
riors. A t each of the four corners of the
temple a priest falls on his face and cries:
" G o d is G o d ! God is G o d ! There is no God
but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!"
F o u r more j o i n , others j o i n until gradually
all is changed from battle to the one univer­
sal c r y : " G o d is G o d ! God is G o d ! There
is no God but God, and Mohammed is his
prophet!"
I n each corner, however, some
Mohammedans hold slaves in shackles,
secretly.
Mansa M u s a appears at the entrance with
entourage on horseback, followed by black
Mohammedan priests and scholars. The pro­
cession passes around to the right with music
and* dancing, and passes out with M o h a m ­
medans and Songhay, leaving some M o h a m ­
medans and their slaves on the stage.
The herald proclaims
The Fourth Episode,
saying:
" H e a r ye, hear ye! A l l them that know
the sorrow of the world. H e a r ye, hear ye,
and listen to (lie tale of the humblest and
the mightiest of the races of men whose faces
be black. H e a r ye, hear ye, and learn how
CRISIS
this race d i d suffer o f P a i n , of Death and
Slavery and yet of this H u m i l i a t i o n d i d not
die.
M e n of the w o r l d , keep silence and
hear ye t h i s ! "
The banners change again
and s a y :
"The F o u r t h G i f t o f the N e g r o to the
world, being a G i f t o f H u m i l i a t i o n .
This
gift shows how men can bear even the H e l l
of C h r i s t i a n slavery and l i v e . "
The Mohammedans force their slaves for­
ward as E u r o p e a n traders enter.
Other
Negroes, w i t h captives, enter. The M o h a m ­
medans take gold i n barter.
The Negroes
refuse gold, but are seduced b y beads and
drink. Chains rattle. C h r i s t i a n missionaries
enter, but the slave trade increases.
The
wail o f the missionary grows fainter and
fainter until a l l is a scene o f carnage and
captivity with w h i p and chain and only a
frantic priest, staggering beneath a cross and
crowned w i t h bloody thorns, -wanders to and
fro i n dumb despair.
There is silence. Then a confused moan­
ing.
Out o f the moaning comes the slave
song, " N o b o d y K n o w s the Trouble I've
Seen," and w i t h it and through the chained
and bowed forms of the slaves as they pass
out is done the Dance o f Death and P a i n .
The stage is cleared of a l l its folk. There
is a pause, i n which comes the Dance of the
Ocean, showing the transplantation o f the
Negro race over seas.
Then the heralds p r o c l a i m
The Fifth
Episode,
saying:
" H e a r ye, hear y e ! A l l them that strive
and struggle. H e a r ye, hear ye, and listen
to the tale of the stoutest and the sturdiest
of the races of men whose faces be black.
H e a r ye, hear ye, and learn how this race
did rise out of slavery and the valley of the
shadow of death. M e n o f the w o r l d , keep
silence and hear ye t h i s ! "
The banners
change again and r e a d :
"The F i f t h G i f t o f the Negro to the w o r l d ,
being a G i f t of Struggle T o w a r d Freedom.
This picture tells of A l o n z o , the Negro pilot
of Columbus, o f Stephen Dorantes who dis­
covered N e w Mexico, of the brave Maroons
and valiant H a y t i a n s , o f C r i s p u s A t t u c k s ,
George L i s l e and N a t T u r n e r . "
Twenty-five Indians enter, c i r c l i n g the
Court right and left, stealthily and watch­
fully.
A s they sense the coming of the
whites, they gather one side o f the temple,
watching.
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EMANCIPATION EXPOSITION
A l o n z o , the Negro, enters and after him
Columbus and Spaniards, i n mail, and one
monk. They halt the other side of the temple
and look about searchingly, p o i n t i n g at the
Indians. Slaves follow. One of the slaves,
Stephen Dorantes, and the monk seek the
Indians.
The monk is killed and Stephen
returns, c i r c l i n g the Court, tells his tale and
dies. The Spaniards march on the Indians.
Their slaves—the Maroons—revolt and march
to the left and meet the Indians on the oppo­
site side. The F r e n c h , some of the mulattoes
and Negroes, enter with more slaves. They
march after the Spanish.
Their slaves,
helped by mulattoes and Toussaint, revolt
and start back.
The F r e n c h follow the
Spaniards, but the returning H a y t i a n s meet
oncoming B r i t i s h . The H a y t i a n s fight their
way through and take their place next to the
Maroons. S t i l l more slaves and white A m e r i ­
cans follow the B r i t i s h .
The B r i t i s h and
Americans dispute.
A t t u c k s leads
the
Americans and the B r i t i s h are put to flight.
Spanish, F r e n c h and B r i t i s h , separated by
dancing Indians, file around the Court and
out, while Maroons, H a y t i a n s and slaves file
around i n the opposite direction and meet
the Americans. A s they pass the F r e n c h ,
by guile induce Toussaint to go with them.
There is a period of hesitation. Some slaves
are freed, some H a y t i a n s resist aggression.
George Lisle, a freed Negro, preaches the
true religion as the masters listen.
Peace
ensues and the slaves sing at their tasks.
Suddenly K i n g Cotton arrives, followed by
Greed, V i c e , L u x u r y and Cruelty. The slave­
holders are seduced.
The old whips and
chains appear.
N a t Turner rebels and is
killed. The slaves drop into despair and work
silently and sullenly. The faint r o l l of tom­
toms is heard.
The heralds proclaim
The Sixth Episode,
saying:
" H e a r ye, hear y e ! Citizens of N e w Y o r k ,
and learn of the deeds of eldest and
strongest of the races of men whose faces
be black. H e a r ye, hear ye, of the S i x t h
and Greatest G i f t of black men to the world,
the Gift of Freedom for the workers. M e n
of N e w Y o r k , keep silence and hear ye this."
The banners change and say:
"The sixth and last episode, showing how
the freedom of black slaves meant freedom
for the world. I n this episode shall be seen
the work of Garrison and J o h n B r o w n ; of
A b r a h a m L i n c o l n and Frederick Douglass,
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the marching of black soldiers to war and
the hope that lies in little children."
The slaves work more and more dejectedly
and drivers force them. Slave music comes.
The tomtoms grow louder.
The Veiled
W o m a n appears with fire and iron.
The
slaves arise and begin to escape, passing
through each other to and fro, confusedly.
Benezet, W a l k e r and Garrison enter, scatter­
i n g their writings, and pass slowly to the
right, threatened by slave drivers.
John
B r o w n enters, gesticulating.
A knot of
Negroes follow him. The planters seize him
and erect a gallows, but the slaves seize his
body and begin singing " J o h n Brown's
Body."
Frederick Douglass enters and passes to
the right. Sojourner T r u t h enters and passes
to the
left.
Sojourner
Truth
cries:
"Frederick, is God dead?" Voices take up
the cry, repeating:
"Frederick, is God
dead?" Douglass answers: " N o , and there­
fore slavery must end in blood." The heralds
repeat: " S l a v e r y must end i n blood."
The roll of drums is heard and the
soldiers enter. F i r s t , a company i n blue with
Colonel Shaw on horseback.
A single voice sings " 0 Freedom."
A
soprano chorus takes it up.
The B o y Scouts march i n .
F u l l brasses take up " 0 Freedom."
Little children enter, and among them
symbolic figures of the Laborer, the A r t i s a n ,
the Servant of M e n , the Merchant, the I n ­
ventor, the Musician, the Actor, the Teacher,
L a w , Medicine and M i n i s t r y , the A l l - M o t h e r ,
formerly the Veiled W o m a n , now unveiled i n
her chariot with her dancing brood, and the
bust of L i n c o l n at her side.
W i t h burst of music and blast of trumpets,
the pageant ends and the heralds s i n g :
" H e a r ye, hear ye, men of a l l the Americas,
ye who have listened to the tale of the eldest
and strongest of the races of mankind, whose
faces be black. H e a r ye, hear ye, and forget
not the gift of black men to this w o r l d —
the Iron Gift and Gift of F a i t h , the P a i n of
H u m i l i t y and Sorrow Song of P a i n , the Gift
of Freedom and Laughter and the u n d y i n g
Gift of H o p e .
M e n of A m e r i c a , break
silence, for the play is done."
Then shall the banners announce:
"The play is done!"
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
OF COLORED PEOPLE
BRANCHES.
BALTIMORE.
ON October 20 Baltimore held a mass
^**'
meeting protesting against segrega­
tion.
M r . V i l l a r d and Miss Ovington
made addresses.
M r . M c G u i n n , one of
the attorneys for the branch, presided.
Baltimore has its own aggravating prob­
lems. A new segregation ordinance has just
been passed by the city council, modeled so as
to cover the defects in the old ordinance which
was recently declared i n v a l i d by the Supreme
Court of the State. A b o u t the time this last
ordinance was passed white people moved
out of some miserable houses i n a segre­
gated area and colored people began to move
i n . The houses were at once bombarded by
white toughs and several people were injured.
One white man, getting into a controversy
with his colored chauffeur i n regard to the
matter,
shot and instantly killed him.
The murderer has been exonerated.
The
branch is w o r k i n g on the case and the
association is co-operating. It is the inten­
tion of the association to further co-operate
with the branch in fighting the new segrega­
tion ordinance as soon as a test case can be
brought.
TACOMA.
"This little branch has been doing a landoffice business. W h y did you not tell us y o u
needed us sooner?"
W e quote f r o m our
Tacoma correspondent because we always
feel so cheered up by a letter from this far
Western outpost that we want their infec­
tious spirit to get abroad. A s soon as Tacoma
received the circular letters f r o m national
headquarters, the branch immediately cor­
responded with Seattle, Spokane, P o r t l a n d ,
Denver and Ogden. and succeeded i n arrang-
i n g meetings o f protest i n both Ogden and
Seattle. To the latter meeting Tacoma sent
four delegates.
Tacoma held its mass meeting o f protest
i n the F i r s t B a p t i s t C h u r c h . M a y o r Seymour
presided. There were both white and colored
speakers and several i m p r o m p t u speeches by
members of the G . A . R . Resolutions were
drawn up, signed by 500 men and women of
both races, and sent to the President. The
local press was most enthusiastic i n its
notices of the meeting, only one paper—the
Post-Intelligencer,
of Seattle—refusing to
report it.
TOPEKA.
THE Topeka branch held a meeting to
protest against segregation on September
26.
There was a large attendance.
Mr.
A r t h u r C a p p e r , president of the branch,
presided.
There were several prominent
speakers o f both races, i n c l u d i n g M r . James
H . G u y and M r . P a t r i c k Coney, attorneys;
the H o n . Thomas M c N e a ] , P r o f . N . Sawyer
and the Rev. F . L . L o v e l a n d , pastor o f the
F i r s t M . E . C h u r c h . Resolutions of protest
were drawn up, signed by 400 people, for­
warded to the President, and copies were
also sent to K a n s a s representatives
in
Congress.
The branch is c a r r y i n g on an
extensive campaign to increase its member­
ship and expects to hold another mass
meeting this month.
Other branches which are a r r a n g i n g pro­
test meetings are Detroit, C a l i f o r n i a and
Boston.
WASHINGTON.
The association has been most fortunate
i n securing as president of the Washington
branch M r . A r c h i b a l d H . G r i m k e , who is too
well known to our readers to need more than
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N . A . A . C. P.
mention. A l l the other officers of the former
organization have been reappointed. They
w i l l serve until J a n u a r y , when the branch w i l l
hold its own election i n accordance with the
resolution published under Association Notes
i n the last number o f T H E C R I S I S .
The
branch begins its new year w i t h enthusiasm.
M a n y new members and renewals have been
received.
O n October 2 7 a mass meeting
was held to protest against segregation.
M r . V i l l a r d and D r . J o h n H a y n e s Holmes,
of New Y o r k , were the speakers.
SEGREGATION I N
GOVERNMENT
DEPARTMENTS.
A LARGE
number
of
letters
were
received from our members i n all
parts o f the country i n response to the cir­
cular sent out by the association protesting
against the segregation of colored employees
i n the government departments.
Several
members have undertaken to write articles
f o r publication and the office has received a
number o f inquiries from members o f Con­
gress asking f o r the facts. Several Senators
have interested themselves. Senator C l a p p
has assured the association that he intends to
urge the consideration of his resolution which
was mentioned i n the last number of T H E
CRISIS.
The association sent an investigator to
W a s h i n g t o n . Space forbids our g i v i n g f u l l
details. I t was ascertained that segregation
of colored employees exists and is increasing
i n the B u r e a u of E n g r a v i n g and P r i n t i n g , i n
the Post Office Department and i n the office
of the A u d i t o r for the Post Office, which is
a part o f the Treasury Department. A s yet,
segregation has not been introduced i n the
Treasury building, where there are 270
colored employees scattered throughout the
corridors and offices with white clerks,
although it seems to be generally understood
that ultimately colored clerks are to be
segregated i n the registry division of this
building. A Southerner i n charge of one of
the offices i n the Treasury building, mistak­
i n g the investigator for a sympathizer, con­
fidingly
remarked that they wanted to
inaugurate segregation everywhere i n the
Treasury Department, but were handicapped
because "they did not know how to go about
it, i t being most difficult to determine u p o n
the best method." Before he could give more
valuable i n f o r m a t i o n he was warned by the
guide.
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N o official orders have been issued and no
signs posted except i n regard to lavatories.
This order is still i n force i n at least three
departments.
The signs i n (he Treasury
Department have been taken down. They
are still posted i n the Bureau of E n g r a v i n g
and P r i n t i n g . There seems to be a w i l l i n g ­
ness on the part o f officials to discuss this
order, possibly because they realize it would
be a waste of ammunition for the colored
people or their friends to make an issue of
it just now. The attention of the investi­
gator was repeatedly called to the fact that
the colored people had resented this order
bitterly, while not a single protest had been
received against segregation i n work. The
reasons are almost too obvious for comment:
(1)
The colored people resent a personal
affront.
(2)
They cannot protest against
segregation i n work when no orders have
been issued i n regard to it.
Should they
complain they would at once be asked to
cite a discriminating order, and f a i l i n g that
would probably be told, as they have been,
that the changes made had been necessitated
by the exigencies of the work, color having
had
nothing to
do
with
it.
They
would be unable to prove their case and
might
jeopardize
their
positions
by
"insubordination."
The subtle way i n which segregation is
slowly being effected without official orders
is worthy o f attention.
Such delicate co­
ordination on the part of officials is
impressive.
Generally
the excuse is a
readjustment i n w o r k to increase efficiency.
I n the rearrangement of desks, which always
seems to be necessary, clerks are moved from
one room to another, and when the process
is completed the colored clerks always find
themselves, i n some mysterious way, together.
To illustrate: Recently the colored clerks
i n the dead letter division of the Post Office
Department were segregated back of a row
of lockers i n one corner of the room. The
guide said that it became necessary to move
these lockers i n order to improve ventila­
tion. H e was unable, however, to explain
how a l l the clerks segregated back of them
happened to be colored.
E v e n more dangerous to the colored people
than this segregation is the skilful way i n
which its justification is being spread.
F r i e n d s of the colored people hear with com­
parative indifference the statement that " W e
are determined to reduce these people to
menial and subordinate positions," for such
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CRISIS
frankness cannot f a i l to arouse resentment i n
favor of the oppressed, but the sinister
equivalent of this blunt d e c l a r a t i o n
frequently heard i n W a s h i n g t o n — " W e can­
not have colored men w o r k i n g i n the same
room with white women or colored men i n
charge o f the departments employing white
women"—is menacing and much
more
difficult to combat.
N o t only does this
arouse latent prejudice, but i t tends to create
it where it does not now exist.
One white woman who has had a l o n g
experience i n office work inquired w h y the
government did not segregate its women
employees instead of its colored clerks.
Though an ardent advocate of woman's
rights, she fails to see why. the entry of a
few women into the government service
should cause its entire reorganization because,
as she tritely remarked, any clerk, white or
colored, who makes himself offensive to his
fellow clerks w i l l soon find himself discharged.
Moreover, with the resignation of M r .
Napier, Registrar of the Treasury, there w i l l
be no colored men i n positions of authority,
the heads of all the departments being white,
except M r . Napier's successor, who is an
Indian.
A l t h o u g h segregation i n government de­
partments has just begun, its effects are
already startlingly i n evidence.
Those
segregated are regarded as a people set
apart.
Instead of a l l a y i n g race prejudice,
as some of its advocates would have us
believe, the government, by recognition, has
emphasized it.
I n Washington, as usual,
history repeats itself i n g i v i n g to those
segregated what no one else wants.
For
example, i n the B u r e a u of E n g r a v i n g and
P r i n t i n g the lunchroom assigned to colored
women is unsanitary. I n the office of the
A u d i t o r for the Post Office a group of
colored women who work on what is k n o w n
as the "key p u n c h " were taken from light
and airy rooms and segregated i n an un­
pleasant alcove. I n the Dead Letter Office,
where the colored clerks have been segre­
gated by a row of lockers, the part of the
room chosen is the least desirable.
argument of race prejudice as a n excuse to
get their positions. I f the colored people
protest against segregation, she said, i t w i l l
be probably only a question o f time before
the C i v i l Service A c t is annulled and
another passed m a k i n g it possible to de­
prive them of a l l government positions.
That the basis of the whole segregation
idea is caste and not race is indicated by
the fact that the attention o f the investi­
gator was repeatedly called to the absence
of segregation i n the cleaning forces.
In
two of the government buildings the attend­
ant i n charge said i t w o u l d be impossible
to segregate without i n t e r f e r i n g w i t h the
efficiency of the w o r k and, moreover, he had
had no complaints f r o m the white "scrub
ladies."
A n o t h e r difficulty i n c a r r y i n g out segre­
gation by color consistently unexpectedly
arose, to the great embarrassment o f the
clerk who was acting as guide i n the
Treasury Department. E n t e r i n g one of the
rooms where colored clerks were employed,
he r e m a r k e d : "There are two i n here, that
man i n the f a r corner of the room and"—
t u r n i n g to a white man at the d o o r — " y o u are
the other colored clerk i n here, aren't you ?"
The r e p l y cannot be published, but it is sig­
nificant that the man m a k i n g i t was con­
siderably darker than some o f the colored
clerks who w i l l have to be segregated i f the
present policy is perfected.
It is impossible to prophesy the outcome.
The association is w o r k i n g h a r d and intends
to keep up its fight. E v e r y member is urged
to interest his friends and to write to his
representatives i n Congress i f he has not
already done so.
The r u m o r was abroad i n W a s h i n g t o n
that i t was not l i k e l y that any further effort
would be made to segregate the colored
people u n t i l after the election f o r mayor
i n N e w Y o r k , as M r . M i t c h e l l , the F u s i o n
candidate for mayor, is also the candidate
favored
by the present
administration.
Colored men vote i n N e w Y o r k C i t y !
I f the policy continues competition i n
work, of course, w i l l be eliminated. Colored
clerks w i l l be restricted to employment i n
the few offices designated for them.
A
prominent social worker i n W a s h i n g t o n ,
referring to the matter, said that the white
people d i d not really object to w o r k i n g w i t h
the colored people, but were using this old
LEGAL.
1
ALL members o f the association should
be interested i n the case of F r a n k
G u i n n and J . J . B e a l vs. the U n i t e d States,
which is set for hearing before the Supreme
Court on October 14.
This "grandfather" case is one between
the U n i t e d States on the one hand and
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MUSLIM
PRIEST AND T H E H E A T H E N
certain registrars o f voters on the other,
a r i s i n g from an attempt on the part of the
government to punish the defendants for
c o m p l y i n g w i t h the provisions of the
Oklahoma amendment.
The government is
therefore a p a r t y to the case and is repre­
sented by its Solicitor-General. The latter,
in reply to an i n q u i r y from the association,
advised us that we might be permitted to
file a brief.
This has been prepared by
M r . Storey, our president, and has been
filed.
It w i l l be presented by Jackson
Ralston, E s q . , an eminent attorney of
Washington, D . C .
W i l l i a m H a r r i s o n , E s q . , a colored at­
torney of Oklahoma C i t y , who was active i n
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the case mentioned above, also appears i n the
case of McCabe, et a l , vs. Atchison, Topeka
and Santa F 6 R a i l r o a d .
This is a " J i m
C r o w " case and is to come before the
Supreme Court this term.
M r . Harrison
asked the co-operation of the association and
invited M r . Storey to appear with him as
counsel to argue the case. M r . Storey has
consented and the association sent $180 to
the clerk of the Supreme Court to cover the
expenses o f p r i n t i n g a record of the case.
The other " J i m C r o w " case, that of the
A l a b a m a & V i c k s b u r g R a i l w a y Company
vs. P e a r l M o r r i s , which is i n the hands of
the association, w i l l not be reached for some
time.
The M U S L I M P R I E S T A N D T H E H E A T H E N
( A n A f r i c a n Parable)
[NOTE—This parable has been adapted for
the readers of T H E CRISIS from the Rev.
S. W . Koelle's "African Native Litera­
ture."
The locale is in the British Pro­
tectorate of Nigeria, West Central Africa, a
vast territory with a population of several
million Negroes, where for centuries the
Mohammedan faith has been the prevailing
religious belief. The Muslim priest of the
parable, his heathen friend and the chief
magistrate of the African town of Kuka were
Negroes. The late Dr. Edward W. Blyden, the
eminent Negro scholar, states that the Azan
or "call to prayer," which to this day sum­
mons throughout the Eastern world millions
of Mohammedans to their devotions, was first
uttered by a Negro—Bilal by name—whom
Mohammed, in obedience to a dream, ap­
pointed the first muezzin or crier.—A. O. S.]
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T H E R E was once a great
priest who possessed a l l
books the wisdom of which
he had mastered. H i s only
friend, whom he loved pas­
sionately, was a heathen to
whose house he went daily
for
converse.
These visits pleased the
heathen exceedingly because he knew that
he never fasted, never prayed, never killed
the E a s t e r lamb, but d i d many things for­
bidden i n the K o r a n . Y e t he and the priest
lived i n friendship.
One day while at the heathen's house the
priest s a i d : " M y friend, i n a week I shall
make m y pilgrimage to M e c c a . "
A d a p t e d b y A . O . Stafford
" F a t h e r priest, i f thou goest to Mecca
takest me with thee?" asked the heathen
immediately.
" T h o u art a heathen," replied the priest.
" T h o u never fastest, never prayest and wilt
thou goest to Mecca with me? I cannot take
thee."
"Let me follow thee to Mecca," begged
the heathen; "when you have come to Mecca
and God gives thee a good place, I by thy
blessing may also obtain one."
" T h i s cannot be," answered the priest as
he arose to go.
A t the end of a week the priest was ready
for the journey, taking with him dried cow's
meat and flour, a ease with books, a cala­
bash for d r i n k i n g water and another one
to be used for washing his face and hands
before prayer. W h e n the heathen saw his
friend depart for Mecca he also prepared
for the journey, t a k i n g dried hog's meat—
forbidden by the K o r a n — a calabash f o r
water and a staff. B y w a l k i n g r a p i d l y he
overtook, i n a few days, the priest on his
journey through the desert.
W h e n the
priest saw his heathen friend he asked: " H o w
couldst thou follow me after I had said that
I could not take thee to M e c c a ? "
The heathen's s p i r i t was crushed, but he
answered, looking upon his friend with sor­
rowful eyes: " G o thou to Mecca alone, but I
shall follow thee from afar."
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THE
I n time the priest came to Mecca, f o l ­
lowed i n a short while by the heathen.
The m o r n i n g after their a r r i v a l was
F r i d a y . A l l of the great men had prepared
to go to the mosque, when the voice of the
crier was heard chanting the m o r n i n g call to
prayer:
" G o d is most great! I testify there is no
G o d but G o d ! I testify that Mohammed is
the Apostle of G o d !
Come to p r a y e r !
Come to salvation! G o d is most great!
There is no God but G o d ! P r a y e r is bet­
ter than sleep. P r a y e r is better than sleep."
A s the call was chanted a l l listened with
reverence, the passers i n the street stood
still, those at w o r k ceased from their labors
and those who had not arisen sat up i n their
beds.
W h e n the call was finished a l l the great
men of Mecca entered the mosque, while the
priest and the heathen stood at the entrance.
Seeing the priest, the crier asked of h i m :
"Whence comest thou?"
The priest r e p l i e d : " F r o m K u k a , i n the
B o r n u country of A f r i c a . "
Whereupon said the c r i e r : " T h o u hast a
friend who after many weary weeks i n the
desert followed thee hither, but whose
coming thou dost not like. . E r e thou
calledst h i m a friend, thou knewest that he
never fasted, never prayed, never killed the
Easter lamb and that his parents, grand­
parents
and
great-grandparents
were
heathens.
" W h e n thy friend hoped, on his following
thee hither, to obtain Heaven by thy blessing
thou didst not like his coming. I f one seeks
and does good our L o r d w i l l interpret it
to h i m f o r good. N o t he is a heathen who
eats hog's meat or monkey meat, but he who
quarrels w i t h his neighbor and then keeps
him i n his heart maliciously and who always
remembers it when he sees h i m with whom
he had a quarrel. Therefore I w i l l not let
thee enter the mosque, but the man whom
thou callest a heathen may enter."
The heathen was then called and told to
enter, while the priest was left standing on
the outside. A l l of the great men of Mecca,
the heathen among them, then prayed i n the
mosque.
W h e n the prayer hour was over the
heathen was called, given a beautiful house
in which to live, while to the priest was
assigned a small one.
A t the end of a month, filled w i t h prayer
and reverence, when the heathen expressed
CRISIS
a desire to return to the B o r n u country, the
chief magistrate of Mecca gave h i m a silver
basin, a scarlet cap, a silver staff, a cloak,
a beautiful u p p e r garment, food to eat on
the journey and a golden plate f o r his
food. T o the priest was given a little food,
a water pan, a copper basin and an i r o n
staff.
The priest and the heathen left Mecca to­
gether and for over two months they con­
tinued their return j o u r n e y before reaching
Kuka.
One morning, a few. weeks later, the priest
was taken w i t h fever, and the heathen also,
between m o r n i n g and noon. E a r l y the f o l ­
lowing m o r n i n g after the priest had said his
prayer he died and before noon the heathen
also passed away.
Then some people o f the t o w n came and
washed their bodies, w r a p p e d them i n rough
mats and carried them to the graveyard.
Then they took spades, measured the ground
and began to d i g the graves.
The grave f o r the heathen was not hard
to dig, the ground h a v i n g no stones, but
was of s a n d ; hence i t was soon finished.
W h e n the grave f o r the priest was begun a
strange t h i n g happened.
A f t e r the people
had dug one foot they met w i t h rocks. They
left and began to d i g i n another place; again
they met w i t h stones; then leaving that place
they began once more and still again they
met w i t h stones.
G r o w i n g weary o f their
task, the body of the heathen was placed i n
the sandy grave and completely covered w i t h
sand, but the body of the priest was placed
about a foot deep i n the grave of stone,
which left p a r t of it exposed above the
surface.
Then the chief magistrate o f the town said
to a l l the people who had come to the
burial:
"The priest d i d not want to take the
heathen w i t h h i m to Mecca, but the heathen
went, followed the great men of Mecca to
the mosque, entered there and prayed aud
our L o r d accompanied h i m . The priest who
relied on being a priest d i d not obtain ad­
mission to the mosque.
" I n the beginning our L o r d created a l l ;
the black, the white, the red, the brown and
the yellow, the small and the tall. O u r L o r d
did not create anyone s a y i n g : 'This is a
heathen and this is a believer,' but he created
all a l i k e ; w i t h our L o r d there is neither
slave nor free man, priest nor heathen, but
THE
FREEDOM
everyone is free and everyone has a heart.
I f a man, whether priest or heathen, has a
good heart he w i l l obtain Heaven. A s for
reading, thou mayest have read all the books
of the world, but i f thine heart is bad thou
shalt not obtain Heaven.
''Therefore our L o r d who knew the hearts
of these dead men made the priest out for
the fire and the heathen for H e a v e n . "
The people then departed, t h i n k i n g of this
THE
FREEDOM
( E m a n c i p a t i o n Exposition Poem)
W H E N the people o f Jehovah to the
promised l a n d would go,
They were shown a valiant leader f o r the
conflict with the foe;
B u t they wandered many weary years and
faced the r a g i n g sea,
E r e their children won the harvest of the
Freedom o f the F r e e .
When the black men of the wilderness were
wanted of the L o r d ,
F r o m A m e r i c a to E u r o p e flashed the word
with one accord;
A n d the C h r i s t i a n nations hankered for the
glitter of the gain,
W h i l e the screaming of the eagle dulled the
clanking of the chain.
B u t the captive on the slaver's deck beneath
the lightning's flash—
U n t o him were only scourging and the sting­
i n g of the l a s h ;
B u t such things as these must be, they say,
and such the p r u n i n g be,
E r e our children w i n the harvest o f the
F r e e d o m of the Free.
F a r across the deep A t l a n t i c speeds the ves­
sel on its way,
A n d the nights are w i l d w i t h weeping, and
the days with tempests gray,
T i l l at length within the glory o f the dawn
the shore appears,
A n d the slave takes up the burden and the
battle o f the years.
I n the f u r y o f the auction runs the clamor
on and o n :
" G o i n g ! G o i n g ! W h o bids higher? G o i n g !
Going! Going! Gone!"
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OF T H E FREE
friendship, of the pilgrimage to Mecca, o f
the words of the crier, of the prayer in the
mosque, of the long return journey through
the desert, of the sudden deaths of the priest
and the heathen, o f the strange happening in
the cemetery and finally o f the words of the
chief magistrate.
Thus ended the story of the priest and his
heathen friend of the town of K u k a i n the
B o r n u country of A f r i c a .
OF T H E FREE
B y Benjamin
Griffith
Brawley
A n d the mocking bird is singing, and the
lilies dance i n glee,
A n d the slave alone is sighing f o r the
Freedom o f the Free.
N o w the wide plantation shimmers i n the
freshness of the morn,
A n d the dusky workers scatter through the
cotton and the corn,
W i t h the problems of the ages i n the yearn­
i n g of their eyes,
W h i l e the slave whip sings forever under­
neath the azure skies.
I n the silence of the night and from the
weird assembled throng
Comes the beauty and the w a i l i n g of the
dirge and Sorrow S o n g :
"I've been listenin' a l l the night long for to
hear some sinner p r a y ;
I've been waitin' all the night long for the
breakin' of the clay."
T i l l at length from M a i n e to Mexico peals
forth the trumpet blast,
A n d a w i l d expectant nation at the fury
stands aghast;
W h i l e the young men i n their glory feel the
fever of the fight,
A n d the blood drops of the firstborn stain
the doorposts i n the night.
I n the crimson of the carnage, i n the deluge
of the flame,
Come the black men to the trenches for the
honor a n d the fame;
A n d they sell their hearts' blood dearly for
humanity's decree,
That their sons should have the promise o f
the Freedom of the Free.
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A n d a people stands bewildered at the dawn­
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hearts are ever true
To the call of home and country and the
faith the fathers knew. ,
But the tempter whispers ever with monoto­
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That the struggle and the s t r i v i n g and the
faith are all i n v a i n ;
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B u t f r o m woodland wold and mountain peak
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Let us heed no tale of A n a k or P h i l i s t i n e i n
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That our sons may rise triumphant i n the
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"I c o r d i a l l y c o m m e n d the s c h o o l ' s interest a n d needs to a l l w h o
b e l i e v e i n the
N e g r o race and i n our o b l i g a t i o n
to help p r o m o t e
its
intellectual, moral and religious uplift."
—REV.
DR.
CHARLES
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New
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It Is MORE Than a Mere School
It Is a COMMUNITY of Service and Uplift
Its influence is destined to be felt in all sections of the
country in improved Negro community life wherever our
trained workers locate.
Settlement workers, missionaries for home and foreign
mission fields, Y . M . G . A . and Y . W . G . A . secretaries and
district nurses receive a comprehensive grasp of their studies
under a Wellesley graduate and experienced co-workers and
actual every-day practice through the school's social service
department.
We aim also to create a better qualified ministry, industrial
training, advanced literary branches, business school.
Thirty-two acres; ten modern buildings; healthful location.
W e can accommodate a few more earnest, ambitious
students.
Communities requiring social workers
should
write us.
F o r catalog and detailed information address:
PRESIDENT JAMES E. SHEPARD
National Religious Training School,
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Durham, N . C .
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