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Opinion of w.e.b. du bois

TO THE WORLD For the purpose of raising such
(Manifesto of the Second Pan- peoples to intellige nce ,self-knowledge
African Congress.) groups.
|THE absolute equality of races,
—physical, political andsocial—isthe founding stone of
world peace and humanadvancement.No one denies greatdiffe
but the voice of science, religion and The insidious and dishonorable
practical politics is one in denying propaganda, which, for selfish ends,
so distorts
the God-appointed existence of super-races, andraces
or of denies facts as and
naturally to represe
inevitably and eternally inferior. impossible and undesirable, should
be met with widespreaddisseminatio
of making the Negro slave a free citize
proofs of the impossibility of self-
government among black men; the
experience of Spanish America does
not prove that mulatto democracy
That in the vast range of time, will not eventually succeed there; the
one group should in its industrial aspirations of Egypt and India are
technique, or social organization, or not successfully to be met by sneers
spiritual vision, lag a few hundred at the capacity of darker races.
years behind another, or forge fitfully
ahead, or come to differ decidedly in
thought, deed and ideal, is proof of
the essential richness and variety of
human nature, rather than proof of
the co-existence of demi-gods and
apes in human form. The doctrine We who resent the attempt to treat
of racial equality does not interfere civilized men as uncivilized, and who
with individual liberty, rather, it fulfilsin our hearts
bring it. And grievance uponvariou
of all the
in the past been prejudged and classified,grievance
that of the color those
against of thewhoskinlynch
and texture of the hair, is surely the the untried, disfranchise theintellig
most adventitious and idiotic. complain; but not simply or primarily
the millions of our fellows, blood of
our blood, and flesh of our flesh, who
have not even what we have—the
power to complain against monstrous
It is the duty of the world to assist the power
wrong, in every
to way
see the
and advance
to
backward and suppressed groups of know the source of our oppression.
mankind. The rise of all men is a
menace to no one and is the highest
human ideal; it is not an altruistic
benevolence, but the one road to
How far the future advance of
world salvation.
mankind will depend upon the social
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contact and physical intermixture of Buddha and Mahmoud, and in the

the various strains of human blood mightiest A g e of Human Reason,
is unknown, but the demand for the there can be found in the civilized
world enoughofofblood
interpenetration of countries andintermingling altruism, learning
has come, in
modern days, from the white race and benevolence to develop nativeinst
alone, and has been imposed upon enslaved by ignorant and selfish
brown and black folks mainly by agents of commercial institutions,
brute force and fraud. On top of whose one aim is profit and power
this, the resulting people of mixed for the few.
race have had to endure innuendo,
persecution, and insult, and thepenetratedcountries have been force d

And this brings us to the crux of

the matter: It is the shame of the
If it be proven that absolute world world that today the relation between
segregation by group, color or historictheaffinity
main isgroups of the
best for mankind
future, and
let the white race leave the dark their mutual estimate and respect is
world and the darker races will gladlydetermined
leave the chiefly
white. byButthethe
degree in
proposition
men, of men whose likenesses far outweighwhich one
their can subject
differences; whothe
mutuaother to
its service, enslaving
thought and dream, but who cansuccessfully have eachlabor, making
other only on
terms of equality, justice and mutual ignorance compulsory, uprooting
respect. They are the real and only ruthlessly religion and customs, and
peacemakers who work sincerely and destroying government, so that the
peacefully to this end. favored Few may luxuriate in the toil
of the tortured Many. Science,Rel
made the slaves of world commerce
and industry, and bodies, minds,
souls of Fiji and Congo, are judged
almost solely by the quotations on
the Bourse.

The beginning of wisdom ininterracialcontact is the establishmen

political institutions amongsuppressed The day ofpeoples.
such worldorganiza
The habit of democ
earth. Despite the attempt to prove made for it in other ages, the 20th
that its practice is the secret and century must
divine gift ofcome to judge
the few, menis as
no habit more
natural or more widely spread among men and not as material and labor.
primitive people, or more easily capable of development among masses.
The great industrial problem
Local self-government with a minimum of help and oversight can be
which has hitherto been regarded as
established tomorrow in Asia, in
the domestic problem of culture
Africa, in America and in the Isles
lands, must be viewed far more
of the Sea. It will in many instances
broadly, if it is ever to reach just
need general control and guidance,
settlement. Labor and capital in England, F
but it will fail only when thatguidanceseeks ignorantly and con
solve their problem as long as a sim
people's liberty and good.
poverty and injustice marks the relat
estimate, which half the peoples of
earth put on the other half, depends
mainly on their ability to squeeze
profit out of them.

Surely in the 20th century of the

Prince of Peace, in the millenium of
 OPINION 7

If we are coming to recognize that ignorance among the natives,

the great modern problem is to correct has enslaved them and is stillensl
maladjustment in the distribution of declined even to try to train black
wealth, it must be remembered that and brown men in realself-government,to
the basic maladjustment is in the folks as civilized, or to grant to colored co
outrageously unjust distribution of government which it freely gives to
world income between the dominant white men.
and suppressed peoples; in the rape
of land and raw material, and monopoly of technique and culture. And
in this crime white labor is particeps
criminis with white capital.Unconsciously andis consciously,
Belgium a nation which carelessly
has but
and deliberately, the vast power of recently assumed responsibility for
the white labor vote in moderndemocracies
her colonies, andhas been cajoled some
has taken and flatt
enslave and debauch black, brown steps to lift them from the worst
and yellow labor, until with fatalretribution, they are regime;
abuses of the autocratic themselves
but toda
bound and gagged and renderedimpotent by theto resulting
she has not confirmed the peoplemonop
the world's raw material in the the possession of their land and labo
hands of a dominant, cruel andirresponsible few. any voice in their
allow the natives
own government, or to provide for
their political future. Her colonial
policy is still mainly dominated by
the banks and great corporations.
But we are glad to learn that the
present government is considering
a liberal program of reform for the
And, too, just as curiously, the future.
educated and cultured of the world,
the well-born and well-bred, and even Portugal and Spain have never
the deeply pious and philanthropic, drawn a legal caste line against persons o f
receive their training and comfort Negro descent. Portugal has a huma
and luxury, the ministrations of delicate
But, beauty and sensibility,
unfortunately, on condition
the industrial
and the methods of distribution or concessions of Portuguese Africa are
interfere with the legal props which almost wholly in the hands offorei
rest on a pitiful human foundation will not control, and who are exploiting
of writhing white and yellow and African slave trade.
brown and black bodies.

W e claim no perfectness of our

own nor do we seek to escape the
The United States of Americaaf
blame which of right falls on the
black folks suddenly emancipated
backward for failure to advance, but
them and began their education; but
noblesse oblige, and we arraigncivilizationand more especially thec
it acted without system orforetho
their own better conscience.
educating them withoutthoroughnes
them the while to lynching,lawlessn

England, with her Pax Britannica,

her courts of justice, established
commerce and a certain apparentrecognitionof native law and custom
has nevertheless systematically fostered
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s
to give her a single bit of help,
aid or sympathy.
their own government, theyenfranchized the Negro and then whend
thousands of educated and civilized What do those wish who see these
evils of the
black folk to be lawlesslydisfranchised and color line and
subjected to aracialdiscri
caste system
1812, 1861, 1897, and 1917, they divine right of suppressed andback
asked and allowed thousands of be free?
black men to offer up their lives as
a sacrifice to the country whichdespisedand despises them.
The Negro race through itsthin
I—The recognition of civilized
men as civilized despite their race or
France alone of the great colonial color
II—Local
powers has sought to place her cultured black citizens self plane of for
on agovernment
absolute legal and social equality backward groups, deliberately rising
as experience
with her white and given themrepresentation and highestlegislat
in her knowledge grow
state education. This splendidbeginningto complete selfmust government under by
be completed
indigenes the ownership of the soil, the limitations of a self governed
by protecting native labor against world
the aggression of established capital, III—Education in self knowledge,
and by asking no man, black or white, in scientific truth and in industrial
to be a soldier unless the country technique, undivorced from the art
of beauty
gives him a voice in his own government.
IV—Freedom in their own religi
right to be different and non-conformi

V—Co-operation with the rest

of the world in government,ind
Freedom and Peace

The independence of Abyssinia,

Liberia Haiti and San Domingo, is VI—The ancient commonowne
absolutely necessary to anysustained fruits and defence
belief against theunre
of the black folk i
sincerity and honesty of the white.
These nations have earned the right VII—The establishment under the
to be free, they deserve the recognitionLeague
of the of
world; notwithstanding
Nations a11
of aninternatio
their faults and mistakes, and the problems
fact that they are behind the most
advanced civilization of the day,neverthelessthey compare favorably
with the past, and even more recent, VIII—The establishment of aninte
history of most European nations, with the protection of native labor.
and it shames civilization that the
treaty of London practically invited
Italy to aggression in Abyssinia, and The world must face two eventualiti
that free America has unjustly and the great world states, with political,
cruelly seized Haiti, murdered and civil and social power and privileges
for a time enslaved her workmen, absolutely equal for its black and
overthrown her free institutions by white citizens, or the rise of a great
force, and has so far failed in returnblack African state founded in Peace
and Good Will, based on popularedu
GENERAL LUIS SORELAS

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freedom of trade; autonomous and of any State than has devolved

sovereign in its internal policy, but upon yours in re the Negroes of
from its beginning a part of a great Phillips County condemned to death
society of peoples in which it takes in the electric chair and so sentenced
its place with others as co-rulers of by the courts of your State. It is a
the world. deed to be contemplated with extreme
In some such words and thoughts horror. In the execution of these
as these we seek to express our will men, a race is suffering crucifixion."
and ideal, and the end of our untiring effort. T oletter,
In his our aidProf.
we call all men
Kerlin explains
of the Earth who love Justice and the iniquities of the peonage system
Mercy. Out of the depths we have and the travesty of trial given the
cried unto the deaf and dumb masters of the
Elaine world. The
Negroes. Out letter
of the received
depths
we cry to our own sleeping souls. much publicity and was so resented
by the Board of the Virginia Military
Institute that Prof. Kerlin'sresign
The answer is written in the stars.
the Board, which stated that "he had
ROBERT T. KERLIN rendered his further connection with
R E A D E R S of T H E CRISIS will the Virginia Military Institute undesirab
remember the appearance a
year ago of a compilation of
Negro opinion gathered in a
volume entitled "The Voice of the We can not express too deeply our
Negro." Here for the first time we appreciation of Prof. Kerlin's course
had a book bringing to the white as in sending his letter to the Governor
well as the colored reader theNegro's of Arkansas, and criticism, through hi
in standingunsw
press, of America's treatment of him dealings with his Board. Virginia
and his race. The book contained Military Institute, designed topro
an interesting preface by its compiler,hasProf. Robert from
dismissed T. Kerlin,profes
its force a man
Institute, Lexington, Va. Prof.Kerlin displaying the finestfollowed
couragethis
the by aIns
"Contemporary Negro Poetry." He
might have continued his literaryeffortsundisturbed ; but th
wrongs of the Negro pressed upon
him, and when he read of thecondemnationto death of the six Neg
Elaine riots, he used his splendid Only through self criticism can an
command of English to publish an individual or a nation progress. The
open letter to Thomas C. McRae, South steadily suppresses self criticism
Governor of Arkansas, entreating showing itself more and more and
the Governor to give earnestconsideration more sterile.to the cannot suppress
It sentence a
of the courts
pronounced upon these Negroes. man like Mr. Kerlin, but judging
"Not in the history of our Republic." from its past acts, with the Ku Klux
Prof. Kerlin said, "has a more tre­ spirit, it will drive him beyond its
mendous responsibility before God borders. Perhaps more than any
and the civilized world devolved other section of the world, the South
upon the shoulders of the chief executiverefuses to listen to the voice that cries
in the wilderness.

KU KLUX KLAN

t
HE white knights are on the
run. Their flowing robes no
longer present the dignified
. appearance made familiar to
millions of Americans by "The Birth
 OPINION 1 1

of A Nation." Instead they stream in The overhead expense is being cared

ridiculous tatters. Since the for by York
New the city and has
World state, but eachthemisc
described
is ended. W e have learned a great racial or national group is expected
deal about their Grand Wizard and to defray the expenses of its own exhibit
their Kleagles and we know now that
the Klan is a money-making affair
Negroes have been invited to participate a
selling stock based on race prejudice.
all the conferences at which the
plans of the enterprise have been
worked out. The committee on Negro exhi
James Weldon Johnson and as its
Congratulations to the New York secretary, Eugene Kinckle Jones.
World for its wonderful exposure.
The part that the Association took
in the exposure, the assistance that This committee plans to have a
it was able to give, is told in this continuous exhibit showing the contribution of
number under National Association and labor. On Thursday night,Novem
notes. several hundred voices and an orchestra
this time a primer of Negroaccomplishment
"AMERICA'S M A K I N G " gain direct information concerning
THEpart which each group has the Negro's worth to America.
had in the development of
this land will be clearly shown in "America's Making," a

pageant and exhibit which will show

three centuries of racial andimmigrantcontributions to our national
life. From October 29 to November
12, through pageants, festivities and
exhibits, the gift of each race to The educational value of this exhibit
America will be set forth. Thisdemonstration is under the
cannot be estimated. Forgeneralsuperv
a modest
budget of $3000, it is believed that
the committee on the Negro exhibit
can provide a program which will
favorably compare with any other.

L'UNION CONGOLAISE, BELGIUM

IMPRESSIONS OF THE SECOND PAN-AFRICAN
CONGRESS
JESSIE F A U S E T

i were there and the men and women of

The dream o f a P a n - A f r i c a n Congress
had already come true in 1919. Y e t it
was with hearts half-wondering, half
1921. So tenuous, so delicate had been its
beginnings. Had the black world, although
once stirred by the terrific rumblings o f
the Great W a r , relapsed into its l e t h a r g y ?
Then out of A f r i c a j u s t before it was time
to cross the Atlantic came a letter, one of
many, but this the most appealing w o r d
from the E g y p t i a n S u d a n : "Sir: We
sum ( $ 1 7 . 3 2 ) , to help toward the expenses
of the P a n - A f r i c a n Congress. Oh Sir, w e
are looking to you f o r we need help s o r e l y ! "
So with this in mind we crossed the seas
not knowing just w h a t would be the plan of
action for the Congress, f o r would not its
members come from the four corners of the
earth and must there not of necessity be
a diversity o f opinion, o f thought, of
was that Ethiopia's sons through delegates
were stretching out their hands from all
over the black and yearning world.
A f r i c a n blood w h o were at that time re
fearfulT h a t was
thata wwonderful
e ventured meeting.
to realize I it think
afresh
that at first w e did not realize h o w wonderful.
and Rev. J e r n a g i n o f W a s h i n g t o n presided;
the second day Dr. D u B o i s and M r . Archer, e x
necessity those first meetings had to be
hearts. N a t i v e A f r i c a n and native American st
this is m y l o t ; tell me w h a t is y o u r s ! "
cannot come but we are sending you this sm
M r . H . A . H u n t o f F o r t V a l l e y , Ga., M r .
R. P. Sims o f Bluefield, W . V a . , D r .Wilb
Bainbridge, Ga., R e v . W . H . J e r n a g i n of
Washington, D . C , Dr. H. R. Butler o f
Mr. W h i t e , M r s . Kelley and Miss Fauset—
all these told o f A m e r i c a . A n d in return
Dr. Olaribigbee and M r . T h o m a s o f W e s t
A f r i c a , Mr. A
project? u g uthe
But s t o main
o f L athing,
g o s , Mthe
r s . gDavis
r e a t thi
of South A f r i c a , M r . M a r r y s h o w o f Gre
V a r m a and M r . S a t k a l a v a r a o f India told
the tale o f A f r i c a and o f other countries
of which the A m e r i c a n s k n e w little o r nothing.

II
'"P'HEN one day, the 27th of A u g u s t , we
met in London in Central Hall, under
the shadow o f Westminster A b b e y . Many
significant happenings had those cloisters
looked down on, but surely on none more
significant than on this g r o u p of men and W e listened well. W h a t can b e m o r e
women of A f r i c a n descent, so different in fascinating than learning at first h a n d that
rearing and tradition and yet so similar the s t r a n g e r across the seas, h o w e v e r differ
in purpose. The rod of the common oppressor nohad
difference
made them o f hfeel
e a r tthe
? irWowne w e r e community
all one
family in London. W h a t small divergences
of opinion, slight suspicions, doubtful
Men f r o m strange and diverse lands glances there m a y have been at first were
came together. W e were all o f us foreigners. allSouth
quickly A f rdissipated. W e felt o uthe
i c a was represented, r comm
Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and L a g o s , Grenada, the United States o f A m e r i c a ,Mart
of E a s t A f r i c a came, yet men w h o had
lived there presented and discussed their
problems. British Guiana and Jamaica Out o f the flood o f talk e m e r g e d real
fact and purpose f o r the A m e r i c a ndel

12
 SECOND PAN-AFRICAN
o f land but had imminentsomethingelse, the problem o f politica
and the heavy and insulting problem of
segregation. T h e E a s t A f r i c a n , on the
other hand, and also the South A f r i c a n had
no vestige o f a vote ( s a v e in N a t a l ) , had
been utterly despoiled o f the best portions
of his land, n o r could he buy it back. In
addition to this the E a s t A f r i c a n had to
consider the influx o f the E a s t Indian w h o
m i g h t p r o v e a friend, o r m i g h t prove as
harsh a taskmaster as the E u r o p e a n de­
spoiler.
T h r o u g h the inter-play o f speech and
out—one, the proposition of M r . A u g u s t o ,
a splendid, fearless speaker f r o m L a g o s ,
that the P a n - A f r i c a n Congress shouldaccomplish
urged that w e s t a r t with the material in
hand and advance to better things.
of all let us begin b y financing the Liberian
loan. Liberia is a N e g r o Independencyalready
conscious black world t o w a r d its development."
T h e other proposition was that of M r .
M a r r y s h o w , o f Grenada, and o f Professor
Hutto o f G e o r g i a . " W e must remember,"
both o f them pointed out, "that not words
but actions are needed. W e must be
must make sacrifices to help each other.
" T e l l us w h a t to d o , " said M r . Hutto, "and
the Knights o f P y t h i a s of Georgia stand
ready, 80,000 strong, to do their part."
T h o s e w e r e fine, constructive words.
Then at the last meeting w e listened to
the resolutions which Dr. D u B o i s had
drawn up. Bold and glorious resolutions
they were, couched in winged,unambiguousw o r d s .
vote the members of the Congress accepted
them. W e clasped hands with our newly
found brethren and departed, feeling that
it was g o c d to be alive and m o s t wonderful " O h ,tono,b eno, n o ! " he Nexclaimed,
n e w and p e r f e c t A f r i c a n brotherhood.
Ill
D O W N to D o v e r we flew, up the English
Channel to Ostend, and thence to
Brussels.
Brussels was different. H o w shall I
CONGRESS 13
large cities, alive and bustling, with its
share of noise. A l l about us were beautiful,
large buildings and commodious stores, exce
centuries old, recalled the splendor and dig
the shadow o f monarchical government.
True London is the heart o f a monarchy,
too, but the stranger does not feel it unless
he is passing Buckingham Palace o r watchin
A t first it was not so noticeable.
W e had been invited b y Paul Otlet and
description and idea, t w o propositions flashed
Senator L a F o n t a i n e and had been helped
greatly by M. Paul Panda, a native of the
Belgian Congo w h o had been educated
something in
v e r y concrete.
Belgium. The Congress itself was held in
First the marvellous Palais Mondial, the W o r l d
Palace situated in the Cinquantenaire Park.
W e could not have asked for a better
founded. " L e t setting.
us," pl
first place, there were many more white
than colored people—there are not many of
us in Brussells—and it was not long bef
deeper, m o r e immediately significant than
that o f the white people we had foundelsew
material interests centre in A f r i c a in the
Belgian Congo. A n y interference with the
natives might result in an interference with
the sources from which so many Belgian
capitalists drew their prosperity.
prepared to put o u r hands in our p o c k e t s
A f t e r all, who were these dark strangers
speaking another tongue and introducing
Heaven only knew w h a t ideas to be carr
of the strides which colored A m e r i c a had
made in education I suggested to M. Panda
that perhaps some A m e r i c a n colored teachers migh
and help with the instruction of the natives.
W i t h o u t a single dissenti
colored. o t one o f and
us but adde
never permit that, the colored A m e r i c a n s
are too malins (clever)."
A f t e r we had visited the Congo Museum
we were better able to understand the un­
spoken determination o f the Belgians to let
nothing interfere with their dominion in
the Congo. Such treasures! Suchillim
plainly be f o r them. F o r the first time in
my life I was able to envisage what
explain it? T h e city was like mo
14 THE CRISIS

A f r i c a means to Europe, depleted as she has

There was no doubt but that o u r assembly
become through the ages by w a r and famine and plague. In the museum were th
from the International University g a v e us
seeds of hundreds of edible p l a n t s ; there
a welcome f r o m students of all n a t i o n s ; w e
was w o o d — g r e a t trunks o f dense,finegrainedm a h o g a n y as thick as a man's
were invited to a reception at the Hotel de
is wide and as long as half a N e w Y o r k
Ville ( C i t y H a l l ) in the ancient public
block. E l e p h a n t s ' tusks gleamed, w h i t e
square, and on the last day General Sorelas
and shapely, seven feet long from tip to
and his beautiful w i f e and daughters received u
base without allowing for the curve, and as
broad through as a man's arm. All the
wealth of the world—skins and furs, gold A n d yet the shadow of Colonial dominion
and copper—would seem to center in the governed. A l w a y s the careful Belgian eye
Congo. watched and peered, the Belgian ear listene
m u r m u r of complaint o f Black A f r i c a , without
intelligible the greatest set o f w r o n g s
against human beings t h a t the modern
N o r was this all. A r o u n d us in the spacious
world rooms were the
has known. W e expression
realized o f ofcourse
an
earlier but well developed art,wood-carvings how delicate showing beyondsituation
the Belgian the shadoww a so fand
a doubt
the inherent artistry of the A f r i c a n . Dearesthow o fsensitive
all, yet asomehow leastthe
conscience surprising
nation had to
us, was the number of musical instruments. because of the atrocities o f the Leopold
There is not a single musical instrument regime. W e knew the tremendous p o w e r
in the world, I would venture to say, of of capital organized to exploit the C o n g o ;
which the Congo cannot furnish a prototype. but despite this w e proposed before the
Congress w a s o v e r to voice the w r o n g s o f
Negroes temperately but clearly. We assu
our hosts in a v e r y literal sense. Indeed
as we afterward found, w e were r e c k o n i n g
Native wealth, native art lay about us
without our own presiding officer, f o r without
in profusion even in the museum. Small
had undoubtedly felt called on to assure
wonder that the Belgian men and women
the Belgian Government that no " r a d i c a l "
watched us with careful eyes.
step would be taken b y the C o n g r e s s . H e
T h e program in Brussels was naturally
sponsored therefore a mild resolutionsugg
different from that in London. W e undertook to learn something o f the culture
Mondial stating that N e g r o e s w e r e "susceptible"
which colored people had achieved in the
the international m o v e m e n t in B e l g i u m .
different parts of the world, but w e hoped
When the London resolutions ( w h i c h are
also to hear of actual native conditions as
published this month as o u r leadingedit
we had heard o f them in thefirstconference.M. Panda spoke o f the generaldevelo
alarmed, and our Belgian visitors w e r e excited
of the Congolese woman. Miss Fauset told
and f o r a while it looked as t h o u g h the
of the colored graduates in the United
main session o f the P a n - A f r i c a n C o n g r e s s
States and showed the pictures of the first
was destined to end in a r a t h e r disgraceful
women who had obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Bishop Phillip
row. It w a s here, h o w e v e r , that the American delega
Nashville and Bishop Hurst of Baltimore
DuBois, showed themselves the real master
greeted the assembly. Mrs. Curtis told of Liberia, the presiding office
M. Barthelemy from the Pas de Calais, in
the French Chamber o f Deputies, ably assisted.

Belgian officialdom was wellrepresented.General Sorelas of Spain spoke of

problem of the mixed race. A n o t h e r General, a Belgian, splendid in ribbons and
orders, was on the platform, and two members of the Belgian Colonial Office were
present, "unofficially."
 SECOND PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS 15

and dignified protest, they allowed M .

D i a g n e to " j a m t h r o u g h " his resolutions
and adjourn the session; but they kept their
own resolutions in place before the Congress to come up for final consideration
Paris, and they maintained the closing of
the session in Brussels in order and unity.
I suppose the white w o r l d of E u r o p e has
never seen a finer example o f unity and
trust on the p a r t of N e g r o e s toward a
N e g r o leader.

B u t we left Belgium in thoughtful and

puzzled mood. H o w g r e a t was this smothering p o w e r which made it impossible f o r
men even in a scientific Congress to be
frank and to express their inmost desires?
N o t one w o r d , f o r instance, had been said
d u r i n g the w h o l e Congress by Belgian
white o r black, o r French presiding officer which w o u l d lead one to suspect that
Leopold and his tribe had ever been other
than the C o n g o ' s tutelary angels.Apparentlynot even an improvement could
hinted at. A n d the f e w A f r i c a n s who were
present said nothing. But at that last
meeting j u s t b e f o r e we left, a Congolese
came f o r w a r d and fastened the button of
the C o n g o Union in D r . D u B o i s ' coat.

What lay behind that impassive face?

IV
At last P a r i s !
Between Brussels and the queen
city o f the world we saw blasted town, ravaged village and plain, ruined in a war
whose basic motif had been the rape of
A f r i c a . W h a t should we learn of the black
man in F r a n c e ?

A l r e a d y we had realized that the black

colonial's problem while the sameintrinsically,w o r e on the face o f it a different
M. P A U L P A N D A
was it that we had learned more quickly
and better than they the value o f organization, o f frankness,
Madagascar, from A n on fa mfreedom
. o f speech?
I looked at
W e wondered then and we w o n d e r still that sea of dark faces and my heart was
though Heaven knows in all humility. moved within me. H o w e v e r their white
overlords or their minions might plot and
plan and thwart, nothing could dislodge
from the minds o f all of them the knowledge
B u t P a r i s at last, with its g l o w and its to black, hands of hope and the promise of
lights and its indefinable a t t r a c t i o n ! unity though seas and armies divided.

W e met in the Salle des Ingenieurs(Engineers'H a l l ) in little R u e Blanche

o f the Opera. L o g a n w a s there, Beton On the platform was, I suppose, theintel
and D r . Jackson, men w h o had worked To A m e r i c a n eyes and, according to the p
f a i t h f u l l y and well f o r us even b e f o r e first, f o r he had first envisaged this movement
we had come to Paris. A n d around us were
m o r e s t r a n g e f a c e s — n e w types to us—from
Senegal, f r o m the French C o n g o , from
16 THE CRISIS

the Haitian minister to F r a n c e and not given the right to speak said to m e
Haitian delegate t o the assembly o f the after hearing D r . D u B o i s ' exposition o f
League o f Nations. Beside him sat the the meaning and purpose o f t h ePan-Afr
g r a v e and dignified delegate from the Liga chance to speak t o D r . D u B o i s ? T h e r e is
Africana o f Lisbon, Portugal, a n d o n the much I would tell h i m . "
other side the presiding officer, M. D i a g n e
and his colleague, M. Candace, French deputy F fr raonm c e Guadeloupe.
is a colonial Apow e r but
little to F r a n side
one c e is
sat the A m e r i c a n R a y f o r d Logan,assistant a republic. A n d so when o u
secretary o rf the
resolutions
Pan-African C
at Paris and our interpreter. H i s translations, madew e r e presented once more
off-hand without a to this t h e final
moment's
preparation, w e r e a remarkable exhibition. session o f the P a n - A f r i c a n C o n g r e s s , that
audience felt that here at last was the fearless
their hearts, here was comprehension, here
was the translation o f hitherto unsyllabled,
In the audience besides those faithful unuttered prayers. The f e w paragraphs
A m e r i c a n delegates* who had followed us about capitalism M . D i a g n e postponed " f o r
from London on, were other friends, H e n r y the consideration o f t h e n e x t P a n - A f r i c a n
O. Tanner, Captain and Mrs. Napoleon Congress." B u t the rest that y e a r n i n g ,
Marshall, w h o had joined us in Paris, g r o p i n g audience accepted with their souls.
Bishop and Mrs. Hurst, who had come back
from Brussels t o Paris with us, Captain The last session o f the last day was over.
and Mrs. A r t h u r Spingarn, white delegates It was midnight a n d spent and h a p p y w e
from A m e r i c a , who had attended thecosferences t h r o u g h and
found o u r w a y h o m eregularly the had laughed a
streets
worked with us in between whiles. of Paris which never sleeps.

V
The situation in Paris w a s less tense,
one felt the difference between monarchy " Y E T after all the real task was a t Gen­
and republic. But again the A m e r i c a n was eva. The city struck us dumb a t first
temporarily puzzled. Even allowing for natural with its beauty
differences o f sky and
o f training and water—the
tradition, blue
it seemed absurd to have the floor given and white
repeatedly to ospeakers
f the September heavens
w h o dwelt above,
on the
glories o f France and the honor o f being Lake Geneva a n d the Rhone R i v e r g l i d i n g
a black Frenchman, when what w e and most green and transparent under stone bridges,
of those humble delegates wanted t o learn black and white swans, red-beaked,floa
was about us. above and beyond all in the f a r distance
Mont Blanc rising hoary, serene and majestic

The contrast between the speakers o f the

Eastern and Western hemispheres with
but t w o exceptions w a s most striking.
Messieurs Diagne and Candace gave us fine
oratory, magnificent gestures—butplatitudes.
Edward Frazier, o f W a l t e r W h i t e , o f D r . here and men o f international name a n d
Jackson, o f a young and and fiery Jamaican
and o f M. Bellegarde, gave facts and food
f o r thought. T h e exceptions were the
speeches o f M. Challaye, a white member
of the Society for the Defense o f A f r i c a n
Natives, and those o f the grave and courtly
Portuguese, Messieurs Magalhaens and
Santos-Pinto.
But this audience was different from that
in Brussells. T o begin with, its members
were mainly black and being black, h a d
suffered. More than one man to w h o m the
unusually autocratic presiding officer had
*A list of t h e delegates will be published
But scant time w e h a d f o r l o o k i n g a t
that! The A s s e m b l y o f the L e a g u e o f Nation
in process
resolutions w e r e But o f beingprese
the speeches o f Dr. DuBois, o
fame were presiding. H o w w e r e w e to gain
audience?
Fortunately f o r us Dr. D u B o i s ' n a m e and
reputation proved the open sesame. H e
had not been in t h e city t w o hours b e f o r e
invitations a n d requests f o r interviews
poured in. One o f o u r staunchest helpers
was a n English w o m a n , L a d y Cecelia, wife
of that Mr. Roberts w h o had worked with
Montague in India. She presided a t meals
at a l o n g table in the dining r o o m o f t h e
Hotel des Familles and here D r . D u B o i s
was made a welcome guest t h r o u g h o u t h i s
later. whole stay. Here came to meet and
 SECOND PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS 17

c o n f e r with him on o u r cause M r . R o b e r t s

Professor M u r r a y writes us, with "quiterem
himself, M r . Lief-Jones, M.P., Professor
year it m a y be quite suitable to put it
Gilbert M u r r a y (representing South Africa at the A s s e m b l y o f the League o f
down as a resolution."
S l a v e r y and A b o r i g i n e s ' Protection Society.
M. Bellegarde, Haitian Minister to F r a n c e
and delegate to the A s s e m b l y , w a s also at VI
that hotel and g a v e us generously of his aid
and assistance. RESULTS are hard t o define. But I must
strive to point out a f e w . F i r s t then,
out of these two preliminary conferences o f
1919 and 1921, a definite organization has
On M o n d a y night, September 13, Dr. DuBoisbeen evolved,the
addressed t o English
be known as of
Club thePan-Af
Geneva
and conveyed to them some idea of what in these pages. Naturally w o r k i n g with
the black world was thinking, feeling and people f r o m all over the world, with the
doing with r e g a r d to the N e g r o problem. necessity f o r using at least t w o languages,
I am sure that m a n y of that g r o u p of with the
people, limited and
thinkers detailed
studentsknowledge
thoughwhich they
were, had never dreamed before that there the black foreigner is permitted to get of
m i g h t even be a black point o f view. B u t A f r i c a and with the pressure b r o u g h t to
they took their instruction b r a v e l y and bear on many A f r i c a n s to prevent them
afterwards thanked Dr. D u B o i s with from frank
shining eyes speech—action
and w a r m hand must clasps.be slow
and v e r y careful. It will take years f o r an
institution of this sort to function. But it
is on its own feet n o w and the burden no
Besides meeting and c o n f e r r i n g with longer is on black A m e r i c a . It must stand
these distinguished personages Dr. D u B o i s or fall by its own merits.
had luncheon conferences with Rene Claparede o f the executive committee o f theSo
Indigenes and with W i l l i a m R a p p a r d , head
W e have gained proof that organization
of the Mandates Commission of the League
on our part arrests the attention of the
of Nations, a dinner conference with G.
world. W e had no need to seek publicity.
Spiller, f o r m e r secretary of the Races Congress, and an interview with A l b e r t T h o m a s ,
If we had wanted to w e could not have esca
head o f the International Bureau of Labor.
T h e white w o r l d is feverishly anxious to
k n o w o f o u r thoughts, our hopes, our
dreams. Organization is our strongest
weapon.
A t the end o f a week of steady driving,
by dint o f interviewing, o f c o p y i n g , o f
translating, o f r e c o p y i n g , w e were ready to It was especially arresting to notice that
present and did present to Sir E r i cDrummond,secretary the P a n - A f r i c a n Congress and of th e L e a g uAssembly
the e of Na
a c o p y in French and E n g l i s h of the resolutionsa entitledwhit in Tessential
o T h e Wmethods.
o r l d (see Neither
page attempted
5) and o f the manifesto (see page 1 8 ) . activities. There had to be much talk,
M r . T h o m a s and M. R a p p a r d w h o both m a n y explanations, an infinity o f time and
heartily endorsed the appointment o f a patience and then talk again. Neither the
" m a n o f N e g r o descent" to the Mandates w r o n g s o f A f r i c a nor o f the world, can be
Commission, Professor Gilbert Murray, righted in a day n o r in a decade. W e can
and M. Bellegarde also received copies. only make beginnings.

A n d between whiles w e listened to the

world s t r i v i n g to r i g h t its w r o n g s at the
T h e most important result w a s our realization
A s s e m b l y o f the L e a g u e o f Nations.
ahead o f all o f us. W e have g o t to learn
O f course w e w e r e at a disadvantagebecauseA everything—facts about A f rm i cear, i cthe difference
a , not beingbetwin
Nations, had n o delegate. B ut P r o f e s s o r one foreign language at least ( F r e n c h or
M u r r a y suggested to M . Bellegarde, the S p a n i s h ) , new points o f view, generosity
H a i t i a n delegate, that he state the second of ideal and of act. All the possibilities of
resolution (see m a n i f e s t o ) d u r i ng the alldebate
black men are on needed to weld
Mandates. Thistogether
he did, as
18 THE CRISIS

the black men o f the world against the day shall be so powerful that the enemy will
when black and white meet to do battle. say, " B u t b e h o l d ! these men are o u r brothers."
God g r a n t that when that d a y comes w e

MANIFESTO T O T H E LEAGUE OF N A T I O N S

T H E second P a n - A f r i c a n Congress which

met in London, Brussels and Paris,
labor would be through investigation of nativ

A u g u s t 28, 29 and 31 and September 2, 3,

S e c o n d l y : T h e second P a n - A f r i c a nCon
5 and 6, represented 26 different groups o f the modern world moves t o w a r dself-governm
people of N e g r o descent: namely, British and nations and that consequently the
Nigeria, Gold Coast and Sierra L e o n e ; the mandated areas, being peopled as they are
E g y p t i a n Sudan, British E a s t A f r i c a ,former
so l a r g e l y by black folk, German h a v e a E raisgt h tA fto
r i c a ; Fre
the French Congo and M a d a g a s c a r ;Belgian ask that a man o f N e gCr oon gdescent,properlyfi
o ; Portuguese St. Thom
and Mozambique; Liberia; Abyssinia;
Haiti; British Jamaica and Grenada;
French Martinique and Guadeloupe;BritishGuiana; the United States
Negroes resident in England, France, Belgium and Portugal, and fraternal visitors
from India, Morocco, the Philippines and
Annam. T h i r d l y and finally: T h e second Pan-
A f r i c a n Congress desires m o s t earnestly
and emphatically to ask the good offices and
careful attention o f the L e a g u e of Nations
to the condition of civilized persons o f Negro
world today a widespread and g r o w i n g
The Congress adopted two sets of resolutionsfeeling differingthat it is permissible
somewhat in detail to but treat civilized
essentially identical. The first set of resolutionsThe result unanimously
(adopted o f this attitudeat and
L o n dmoann) y consequent laws,
is presented in its original English t e x t ; that a bitter feeling o f resentment,pers
the second set (discussed at Brussels and the world a m o n g those v e r y persons whose
adopted unanimously at P a r i s ) is presented rise is the hope o f the N e g r o r a c e .
in its original French text.

The Congress directed its executive officers to approach the League of Nations
with three earnest requests, believing that
the greatest international body in the world
must sooner o r later turn its attention to W e are fully aware that the L e a g u e o f
the great racial problem as it today affects Nations has little if a n y direct p o w e r to
persons of N e g r o descent. adjust these matters, but it has the vast
moral p o w e r o f world public opinion and
First: of a b o d y conceived asks
The second P a n - A f r i c a nCongress to p rthat
o m o tin
e peace and
the International
of Labor a section be set aside to deal justice
particularly and in detail with the conditions we
among men. F o r this reason
and needs o f native N e g r o labor especially ask and urge that the L e a g u e o f N a t i o n s
in A f r i c a and in the Islands of the Sea. take a firm stand on the absolute equality
It is the earnest belief of the Congress of races and that it s u g g e s t to the Colonial P
that the labor problems of the world Nations the
cannot be funderstood
o r m i n g o f or International
an properly settled so
long as colored and especially N e g r o labor Institute f o r the study o f the N e g r o P r o b ­
is enslaved and neglected, and that a first lems, and f o r the E v o l u t i o n and Protection
step toward the world emancipation o f of the N e g r o R a c e .

W . E . BURGHARDT D u B o i s ,
Geneva, September 15, 1921. Secretary.
WATCHING A BASEBALL GAME AT T H E CRESCENT STARS AMUSEMENT BASEBALL PARK, NEW ORLEANS
 A N E W ORLEANS BASEBALL PARK

a search for suitable grounds which colored peo

Cohen, a Negro, who assisted not only with
his broad experience, but also with his
influence with the city authorities.

A Board of Directors was formed, consisting o

bought at least $1,000 worth of stock. Mr.
Wallace C. Marine was elected president;
Mr. F. V. Fauria, treasurer, and Mr. C. C.
Uejoie, secretary. Other members of the
Board of Directors are: Messrs. Walter L.
Cohen, Dr. P. H. V. Dejoie, AlbertWork
J. Bigard, Joseph W. Elliott, Edward E.
Woodruff, George Andre, ArnoldDufourch
Dr. F. T. Jones.

After a capital stock of $25,000 had been

subscribed by the members of the Board of
Directors, the common stock was opened to
the public, and $45,000 was subscribed, the
shares being $50 each.
The ground has been named The Crescent
W A L L A C E C. M A R I N E Stars' Amusement Baseball Park. The site
is situated in the Seventh Ward, which is
N E G R 0 E S i n N e w
Orleans have developedbetter known as the downtown or Creole
a liking for picnics, fairs and District—-"Faubourg Treme." It is four
baseball games. For these amusements squares from St. Bernard Boulevard, which
they were compelled to use the Fair is oneGrounds, which is thoroughfares
of the prettiest owned and controlled
in New by
white people. The owners charged the colored people enormous prices for rental, and
Orleans.
would not permit them to rent the ground
on holidays, and seldom on Sundays.
The Park was planned and built by Negro
Club, of which Mr. Marine is the Manager,
This state of affairs became aggravated
is a great attraction. The park has a seating
when a committee of colored men planned
any time for a nominal sum.
an affair for July 4. They succeeded in
renting the grounds, paying the required
deposit, and began their advertising. When,
however, the owners realized that they had New Orleans, therefore, can well boast
inadvertently rented the grounds to colored people for July
of her amusement place 4,which
they is
revoked
owned,the
privilege, and only through the services of controlled and operated solely by Negroes.
a lawyer were the Negroes given satisfaction. This enterprise is but one of the many
indications of the new spirit which is gradually inv

Mr. Wallace C. Marine, thereupon, began

20
Nationalassociationforthe
Advancement of Colored-People.
THE 24TH INFANTRY PRISONERS We are a delegation representing the
50,000 signers of this petition which we
On Wednesday, September 28, a delegation
have theofhonor
30 leading colored you,
to lay before menand andwe
women, headed by James Weldon Johnson, come not only as a representative of those
Secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., had an who signed the petition, but we are spokesmen
audience with President Harding and or more of Negro
presented a citizens
petition, of the
signed by Unitedpersons,
50,000
States.
asking for the pardon of the 61 soldiers of
the 24th Infantry who are confined in Leavenworth as ayou
The petition, result
will of rioting
note, asks in
forHouston,
their
Texas, in August, 1917. pardon on three grounds: first, the previous re
the provocation of local animosity which
manifested itself in insults, threats and
acts of violence against colored soldiers;
third, the heavy punishment meted out to
In the delegation with Mr. Johnson, or members of the 24th Infantry of whom 19
lending their names to it, were the Hon. were hanged, 13 of them summarily and
Mr. Archibald Grimke, president of the without right of appeal to the Secretary
Washington Branch; Major R. R. Moton, of War or to the President, theirCornmander-in-C
shocked the entire country and appeared
principal of Tuskegee Institute; R. S. to the colored people to savor of vengeance
Abbott, editor of the Chicago Defender; rather than justice. Sixty-one members of
Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the the 24th Infantry are still in prison serving
Secretary of War during the World War;
Prof. George W. Cook and Kelly Miller, of
Howard University; Robert R. Church,coloredRepublican leader in Te
Charles E. Bentley, of Chicago; Miss Nannie H. Burroughs; Mrs. Mary B. Talbert,
honorary president of the NationalAssociation Colored Women's
Contrary to all ofprecedent, the provost Clubs; M
Mary Church Terrell; Mrs. Alice Dunbar guard of this colored regiment had been
Nelson, Harry H. Pace, John Hope, the disarmed in a state and in a city where insult
daily experience. Following a long series
Hon. Mr. J. C. Asbury, memberPennsylvania of humiliatingLegislature;
and harassingHarry E. Davis,
incidents, one membe
of the Ohio Legislature; Drs. William H. soldier was brutally beaten and a wellbel
Washington and W. W. Wolfe, of Newark, woman by local policemen. The report
N. J.; the Rev. Mr. R. H. Singleton, of spread amongGa.;
Atlanta, the James
regiment A. that
Cobb,theirnoncommi
counsel for the
had been killed. Whatever acts may have
N. A. A. C. P., and John R. Hawkins,financial been committed by these secretary
men were of not
the A.
the M. E. C
result of any premeditated design. The
men were goaded to sudden and frenzied
action. This is borne out by the long recor
part of this regiment throughout its whole
history up to that time.

Mr. Johnson in presenting the petition

said:

As Secretary of the NationalAssociation Moreover, although white citizensofofColored

for the Advancement
composed of persons and representatives Houston were involved in these riots and
of bodies deeply concerned for America's the regiment to which these men belonged
good name, I have the honor to present a was officered entirely by white men, none
petition signed by 50,000 Americancitizens,but Negroes, so far as white
we have
andbeen ablepraying
black,
exercise executive clemency, and pardon to learn, have ever been prosecuted or
the 61 members of the 24th U. S. Infantry punished. In consequence, the wholesale
now in the Federal Prison at Leavenworth, punishment meted out to these colored soldiers
Kansas, convicted on charges of rioting at visitation upon their color rather than upon
Houston, Texas, in August, 1917. their crime. The attention of coloredpeo

21
22 THE CRISIS

focussed upon the action which it may Association's attention was called to the
please you to take. fact that the Klan was using an address
In consideration, therefore, of the almost in New York in an attempt to recruit members. Th
five years already served in prison by the
61 men and of the foregoing facts, and to the city officials
because of thebutlongto record
the New
for York
bravery,d
crisis of the nation, we bespeak your World, and to
attention thetheKlan's representative
petition which we beg was
here
traced to the Army and Navy Club in New
York.

Meanwhile, through press stories sent

broadcast throughout the country, by mass
The President promised to review the meetings and magazine articles, the Associatio
testimony in the cases of the soldiers and to of the Klan. So well and so thoroughly
take the request made in this important pe­ was this work done that the Searchlight,
tition under advisement. Mr. Johnson also published in Atlanta as the organ of the
made reference to the gratification of the Klan, called the National Association for
colored people that the government through the Advancement of Colored People its most
two channels was investigating the dangerousKufoe;
nefarious KluxandKlan.denunciation of the
Klan began to be heard not only from the
pulpit but in the editorial columns of the
FIGHTING TREASON most reputable white southern newspapers.

T Among the agencies which denounced the

HE treason which consists ofcommercializedrace hatred and masquerades
Klan in the South were the inter-racialcom
as Americanism has found a dangerousantagonistin the National Associatio
of the Confederacy in Virginia.
Advancement of Colored People. For more
than a year the Association has fought the
Ku Klux Klan with the weapons of publicity and fact-telling, until such a po
New York World became convinced of the In September, 1921, the New York World,
necessity of taking up the fight. The after an exhaustive
expose in theinvestigation, began
World has torn the alast r
secrecy off the Klan's mummery and it is series of twenty articles upon the Ku Klux
shown to be the lowest and vilest sort of Klan. Not only was it shown that the
money-making scheme conducted by those Klan was attempting to suppress the Ne
who are ready to play upon prejudices of anti-Catholic propaganda of a mostvir
any and every sort for their own advantage.prejudice against
This expose Japanese
travelled and Jews.
the length and The
breadth of the United States, being Klan was
reprinted shown of
in dozens to powerful
be bound newspapers.
by un American
To the World, the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People had
the privilege of contributing information
which was publicly acknowledged in the
World's articles. The National Association
two months before the articles began to
the disposal of a representative of the
Even before the election of 1920, in which World. Lists of the atrocities attributed
r.he Ku Klux Klan attempted to intimidate to the Ku Klux Klan were published in the
colored voters, the National Association World, and public acknowledgment by the
for the Advancement of Colored People Klan of its responsibility in a number of
was endeavoring to obtain facts about these cases.
bed-sheet heroes. An officer of theAssociationdiscovered, when he was invi
join the Klan under the mistakenimpressionthat he was a white man, th
Klan intended to organize in New York
City. The attention of the New YorkPoliceDepartment, the May
menace and both the Mayor and the District Attorney assured the people of New
York that the Klan would not be permitted
within the city's limits. Subsequently, the
The personal lives of the leaders of the
Klan, who pretended to be leading in a ca
the World published the fact that two of
the leaders of the Klan had been arrested
in a disorderly house in Atlanta and fined,
 N. A. A. C. P. 23

one of those arrested being the chief woman a report on the Klan, and William J. Burns,
in the Klan. head of the Federal secret service, turned
over such a report to President Harding.
To such an extent was the NationalAssociationfor the Advancement of Colo
People useful in exposing the Klan, that THE ARKANSAS CASES
the Klan actually attempted to employ a The fight still goes on in the Arkansas
traitorous colored man to create dissension in theinAssociation's
executed ranks.
September are still A former
alive.
Klansman, C. Anderson Wright, writing in
the New York American, of September 16, An appeal to the Governor for reprieve
spoke of this dastardly attempt as follows: was unsuccessful. Then our attorneys applied for
stay to the execution. On learning that the
Another subject of serious discussion was writ of certiorari could not be obtained
the realization that the power of the Negro in time to stop the execution, as the judges
society, known as the Society for the Advancement of Colored
of the Federal people,not
Court would wasbebecoming
in Washington
a great menace in the expansion of the Ku application was made for a writ of habeas
Klux Klan, as it was continually giving to corpus. This was granted and maderetur
the press publicity on the Klan'sunderhandedmethods. This society was getting
active in State Legislative work, having
already succeeded in having introduced by
a Negro legislator from Chicago, a bill denouncing the Klan in the IllinoisLegisla
from joining or associating in any manner
with the Ku Klux Klan. On Tuesday, September 27, a telegram
was received, stating that the writ was sustained

Evidence is now in hand which should

have large weight towards securing the
This activity on the part of the Negro, freedom of the prisoners who are yet to
in the judgment of Clarke, warranted come to trial and which will favorably affect the
prompt action, and it was decided to set up The other cases will be tried in Marianna,
a rival organization to the Society for the
Advancement of Colored People without delay. Ark.,
Clarkeinbegan
the near
withfuture.
a NegroThis will
in his be the
own
employ, a man of unusual intelligence, who first opportunity to use the new evidence.
was in charge of the servants on his farm The Association is leaving no stone unturned
on the outskirts of Atlanta. This servant these men.
enlisted the services of other Negroes as
spies, and they attended the meetings of
the society and reported everything that
was said and done. Also, these spies sought We urgently appeal for contributions to
to create dissatisfaction and discord among the Arkansas Defense Fund to meet this
the members of the society.
critical moment in the defense of these innocent
It is, therefore, established, practically
conclusively, that the Klan has actually CERTIFICATE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
been driven to employ spies to try to create At dissension in the
the Atlanta National itAssociation
Conference was voted
for the Advancement of Colored People. The that an attorney be employed by the
Association is gratified at the Klan's lack Association who should give his whole time
of success and feels this attention on the to its work. It was thought that such an
part of the Klan to be a tribute to its effectiveness
arrangement, insupplementing
fighting the Ku
the Klux Klan's
voluntary
treason to the principles upon which the service of the Legal Committee of theAssoc
American State rests.

Following the exposure of the Ku Klux
Klan's hypocrisy and treason, the National
Association appealed to President Harding
in a telegram urging his endorsement of a
complete Federal investigation of the
Klan's activities and Congressional action
should that prove necessary. At about
that time, Attorney General Daugherty
ordered the Department of Justice to make
At the Detroit Conference it was voted
that as soon as the Association found itself
be done towards organization in all sections
of the country.
The Association so far has found itself
unable to carry out these recommendations
and also unable to do many other things
24 THE CRISIS

that it would like to enter upon because of

1919 Drive22,8751920 (no drive held)
lack of funds. One dollar from its members will not furnish sufficient revenue to
do the work which needs to be done. It 1921 Drive:—
has not been our good fortune to secure New members gained. . 44,200
many bequests from our well-to-docitizens, New branches organized but we37 hope that the hab
Branches o v e r 1,000
soon be established. Over 90 percent of members now 13
our support comes from colored people, and Branches o v e r 1,000
it is well that this should be so; but most members before the
of these are One Dollar members. It is Drive 3
because One Dollar a year will not furnish Branches over 500 mem­
bers now 18
sufficient means, that the branches are now Branches over 500 mem­
being urged to conduct some time in October bers before the Drive 7
or November a one-week CertificateMembershipRECEIPTS Drive. In every branch there
persons whose means are such that they Receipts from the Drive $28,243.53
DISBURSEMENTS
should donate each year to the Association
Printing $1,668.84
$25, $50, $100, or more. Almost every Buttons 822.92
member in all our branches can. without Salaries 996.46
undue sacrifice, become either a Gold or a Postage 600.00
Blue Certificate member. The Gold Certificate at $10 a year means the spending of
$6,284.11
less than 20c per week for the work of securing justice for our group. The Blue
Sales of buttons and lit­
Certificate at $5 a year means spending erature 1,360.12
less than 10c per week for this end. None
of our members is so poor that he Net disbursements
cannot afford, if he would, 20c or$ 4,923.99
10c a week.
This is very little to pay for liberty.
Net receipts from the
Drive $23,319.54
THE CASE OF HARLEM HOSPITAL
ARLEM HOSPITAL is one of the
H units under the control of Bellevue
and Allied Hospitals' Association—themu
City.
One Dollar members may become Gold
Harlem has 150,000 colored people, and
or Blue Certificate members by paying $9
the hospital from its location is fitted to
or $4, respectively. It is hoped that every
serve their needs.
branch will enter this one-week intensive
But there have been so many rumors
campaign. The pioneer in this idea is our
branch at Florence, S. C , in which a large and statements of alleged graft,mistrea
proportion of the members are certificate Harlem Hospital that the colored residents
members. prefer to go to any other hospital in the
city. It is significant that the 109th Street
The one-week intensive drive is to beconducted
Hospital states that twenty primarilyperwithin
cent, the
of bra
every branch take as its motto: One Hundredtheir
Percent
total Certificate
admissionsMembership!
are colored, and that
eighty per cent, of these are from Harlem.
The Presbyterian and St. Luke's Hospitals
DRIVE OF THE N. A. A. C. P. also have an unusually large percentage of

W E have had many queries concerning colored admissions. These are all out of
the final drive report. We are herewith theprinting
colored it.district.
At the same
In spite
timeofwetheir
wish d
to congratulate the branches on the splendid
patientswork
of thethey Harlem
did under the very
Hospital are adverse
colored.
circumstances produced by the economic depression.

It will be of interest to review at the
same time the previous drives of the Asso­
ciation.
Moorfield Storey Drive (1918), new
membership gained 26,916
In January, Mr. Cosmo O'Neil, the Superint
been notably fair in his attitude towards
colored people and who had placed colored
physicians on the hospital staff, was de
 N. A. A. C. P. 26

Alderman George W. Harris, deeming it colored committee, the consultants of the

necessary to have a friend of the colored American Hospital Association are alleged
people at Bellevue, and feeling that the to have offered, after the second hearing,
demotion was not the result of anyincompetency, took up
to secure a $2,000,000 the hospital
Negro matter ifwith
the Mayo
Hylan, seeking the reinstatement of Mr. matter would be dropped.
O'Neil. At this time, it was thought well
to bring up the matter of the treatment The committee is reported to have replied
of colored patients at Harlem Hospital and the rights of colored patients, nurses, doctors
to seek a remedy. and not in securing a segregatedinstitu
Harlem Medical Association, the organization
and pharmacists, who fully endorsed their
Mr. Harris, Dr. Allen B. Graves,Attorney fight and employed a Morton,
special investigator
and Mr. Walter
assistant secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., and two attorneys to help in the matter.
formed a committee representing the Mr. William
colored citizens N.
whoColson was to
sought employed as theinvestig
reinstate
superintendent, but without success. After Ferdinand Morton as counsellors. All of
meeting with the Board, who pushed aside these did excellent work.
their requests, the committee then brought
before the Mayor a mass of data they had
collected concerning alleged graft,mistreatmentand shameless neglect of colored
patients.

It was made clear that the crux of the

The Mayor appointed Commissioner of whole question is the admission of colored
Accounts Hirschfield to hear the complaints, nurses and internes. The strong objection
and the defense. Five hearings in all were —it is alleged—is based on the necessary
held. A mass of evidence was produced in social intermingling this would entail.
the form of sworn affidavits and personal The entire matter is not yet settled, but
witnesses, charging the hospital authorities there have been certain importantimme
with grave offenses against colored patients.
1. Bellevue and Allied Hospital Boards,
together with the local board of Harlem Hosp
The committee averred that these conditions colored
only could be remedied
physicians are by the
determined presence
to
and Surgical Board of Harlem Hospital, fight for their full rights.
and made as its minimum demand that
there be appointed two such members, and
that visiting physicians with the full rights 2. Two physicals who were in theMed
of the hospital and visiting surgeons with transferred to the Surgical Out-patient
full rights to the hospital be appointed. Department—a promotion. These are
Dr. Louis T. Wright and Dr. Douglass
Johnson. Two other physicians have
Commissioner Hirshfield had the hospital been appointed
records in the
of January andMedicalOut-pa
Februaryexam
that forty-six per cent, of all admissions and Dr. Ralph Young.
were colored, he stated that it was but fair
that colored people have representation on
the Board. 3. Two others have been permitted to work
in the hospital, Dr. Ernest Alexander
in the Skin Department and Dr. Vernon
Much publicity was given the hearings
Ayer in the X-Ray Department.
through the reports in the New York News,
the Harlem Home News, and the New York 4 Colored Red Cross nurses have been permitte
Tribune.
As a result of the pressure occasioned 5. The hospital also has promised to admit
by the publicity given to the work of the colored nurses.
 Men of the Month.
O
Fleurence Meline Browne enter.d the
volunteer ofsocial
N October 1, 1888, during theadministration
born
service in
service worker
Lord Sackville
Washington, D. C , 44
in New
West, Charles
years ago,
of the Chancery of the British Emb
Jer

He has served as a messenger and clerical b e i n g the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene

assistant through the administrations of Brooks. She served as a clerk to thesuper

Lord Paunceforte, Sir Michael Herbert, Sir and was for several years a supervisor of
Mortimer Durand, Viscount Bryce, Sir first year work in the public schools of
Cecil A. Spring-Rice, Lord Reading, Sir Washington.
Edward GreyShe
andmarried Attorney
the present Eugene Sir
incumbent,
Auckland Geddes, a period of 33 years. M. Gregory, a graduate of HarvardUniv
Jersey and New York.

The Order of the British Empire was created

Among Mrs.byGregory's
King George in 1917
activities and is one o
in New-
the most popular medals given by the Jersey W e r e the offices of vice-president of
Crown. Mr. Browne is the first Negro, and the Newark Branch of the NationalAssoc
one of the few persons in the United States,
the New J e r s e y Federation of ColoredWom
to be awarded this medal.
and the Colored Mission of the Diocesan
Mr. Browne was born in Washington, D. Auxiliary of the Cathedral of St. John the
C , December 24, 1871. He studied in the Divine, and a director of the Music School
public schools of the District of Columbia Settlement.
and was graduated from the law school of
Howard University in 1898.

T HE late Dr. Samuel John Ross was

president of the College of West Africa,
A scholarship in memory of Mrs. Gregory
Liberia. He was born in British Guiana,
Training and Industrial School for Colored
South America, September 19, 1880. In 1902
Youth at Bordentown, N. J., by the Federati
he came to the United States and entered
Lincoln University, where he was given
the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity in 1907. He was president
and valedictorian of his class and the winner of three gold
A U R E L I O EDUARDO medals forwas
BERMUDEZ oratory.
1908 he matriculated at the College of Physicians
born inandthe Surgeons,
Province in
of Chicago, and was
Colon, August
graduated in 1912 with honors. 1, 1893. He joined the police force when
fourteen years of age, being the youngest
member of that body, and became attached
to the Bureau of Investigation. He is
In 1913 Dr. Ross married Miss Pearl F. known as the only finger-print expert in
Thomasson, of Chicago, and during the year Central America.
they sailed for Porto Rico, where Dr. Ross In 1912 Mr. Bermudez was appointed
did interne work at Yauco. He practiced Chief of the Investigation Bureau of the
medicine in the United States from 1915-'18; City of Colon, with the rank ofSub-Lieutena
then he was appointed Medical Missionary promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, last
to Liberia by the Board of Foreign Missions October. In January of this year he was
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Under appointed Captain of the InvestigationDepa
his administration the College of West Africa
and onlygrew fromCaptain
Negro an enrollment of 250 to
on the Isthmus.
-356. In collaboration with Mrs. Ross, a
Y. W. C. A., a Y. M. C. A „ and an athletic
association were established, being the first
of their kind in Liberia.

"Fifty years ago, David JonathanPhi

""THE late Mrs. Musette Brooks Gregory
College and the Pharmacy School of the
of Newark. N. J., was a prominent
26
 CHARLES F. M. BROWNE A.URELIO E. BERMUDEZ
DR. DAVID J. PHILLIPS
THE LATE DR. SAMUEL J. ROSS THE LATE MRS. MUSETTE B. GREGORY
28 THE CRISIS

Dr, Darrington Weaver Dr. Harvey A. Murray Dr. T. E. Stevens Dr. Douglas B. Johnson

N St. Louis, Mo., Dr. Darrington Weaver

Public Hospital, in Kingston, and wasappointedresident
Public Hospital. After three years he resigned
I
received the appointment of dispenser
from Government service and
at the Falm
CityPost-M
establishe
per year. Dr. Weaver was born in Hearne,
Spring. He came to the United States and Texas, December 31, 1889. He was graduated fro
enrolled, in 1894, at the Medical Chirugical
College of Philadelphia, from which he was
graduated in 1898, as the winner of the
Spencer Morris Special Prize of $100 for the MEMBER of the Board of Health at
best examination in medical jurisprudence
and toxicology. He passed thePennsylvaniaMedical
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Wilmington, Del., is Dr. HarveyAl
State Boar d Examination,m
staff of the Babies' Hospital and Day Nursery.
time. Then he studied in Canada, where November 8, 1891. He is a graduate of the
he was graduated from the Medical School Medical School of Howard University, 1913.
of the University of Bishop's College, taking with first honors the degrees of M.D.,
CM. Later, in London, he passed the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons
and Physicians, and was awarded the degrees of M.R.C.S. (England), and L.R.C.P.
(London). He has served as assistant physician at the Royal South London Opthalmic
Hospital and as an assistant at the Royal D
R. T. E. STEVENS was born in Tuskegee, Al
Victoria Nose and Throat Hospital. In graduated from Meharry Medical College.
1917 he was elected a member of the City In Tennessee, he has served as a member of
Council of Kingston. the Board of Health, at Jellico, and of the
Board of Aldermen, at Cleveland.

In 1914 Dr. Douglas B. Johnson was graduated from

College of Medicine. He passed the Virginia
was born February 19, 1888, in Petersburg,
Va., where he was one of the founders of
the William A. Crowder MemorialHosp
in America and abroad. Dr. Johnson is a
While in Philadelphia, Dr. Phillips was member of the Visiting Staff of the Harlem Hosp
New York City.
resident physician at the FrederickDouglassMemorial Hospital and chairma
the Board of Trustees of Zion Baptist
Church. He was a founder of the Banneker
Building and Loan Society, and is still its
president.
 TheLookingGlass
LITERATURE mummy with hands upraised, symbolizing
the self-emancipation of that race from
My Race ignorance into educated, self-reliantcitiz
M Y life were lost, if I should keep
A hope-forlorn and gloomy face,
And brood upon my ills, and weep
is being modelled at the artist's Boston
studio and will be life size.
And mourn the travail of my race. Mrs. Fuller is a pupil of Rodin and
was educated at the Philadelphia Academy
Who are my brothers? Only those of Fine Arts.
Who were my own complexion swart?
Ah no, but all through whom there flows FAR FLUNG PROPAGANDA
The blood-stream of a manly art. EVEN Denmark has been penetrated by
anti-American Negro propaganda. The
Wherever the light of dreams is shed,
And faith and love to toil are bound, "Birth of a Nation" has lifted up its ugly
There will I stay to break my bread, lying head in Copenhagen. Fortunately for
For there my kinsmen will be found. us Edward Franklin Frazier, who is now
LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL, in his studying at the University of Copenhagen,
"Wings of Oppression."
* * * was there to protest and to publish the
Lyman Abbott writes in The Independent main facts of Reconstruction in theCopenh
of Booker T. Washington:
Only once did I ever know him to "let Mr. Frazier protests against thehistor
himself go." This was at the graduating
exercises at Hampton Institute. He and I A young American student of Negro descent,
spoke on that occasion on the same platform. The senior
fellowship of the class certainly—if
American my
Scandinavian
memory serves me right, all the Institute Foundation (Niels-Poulsen Foundation),
students—were gathered on this platform, has sent us the following:
wnile the visitors, mostly white, were seated upon the floor of the great building.
The speaker's task was a difficult one. He I write the following criticism of the
had to stand at one side between the two film, "The Birth of a Nation," merely in the
audiences and play the part of Mr. "Facing- defense of truth. The film might be allowed
Both-Ways." Mr. Washington turned first to pass as any other piece offictionlacking-realismbut
toward one, then toward the other, of the substantiation and its veiled attack upon a
two audiences as he spoke. He appealed to righteous cause and the race that benefitted
the members of his race to secure the byrespect
the triumph of of that
theircause.
white neighbors, not by
eloquent portrait of what the race had done
since emancipation to justify self-respect After the recent World War the South,
he swung himself around as on a pivot and, fearing that the Negroes because of their
speaking with unaccustomed vehemence to part in the struggle would thereafterres
the white portion of his audience, cried Klan. Even in the Southern States the
out: "I tell you, we are as proud of our idea of a secret organization dispensing
race as you are of yours." It was like a justice was opposed by some citizens. In
flash from a before silent and supposedly the city of New York the police were ordered
unloaded gun. How the Negroes on the Klan as other criminals. In spite of this
platform cheered him! opposition an attempt was made to popularize
educative force in America—the moving
picture. Where the picture was shown,
riots generally resulted not only because
of the resentment on the part of Negroes
but also because of the infuriated ignorant
whites. The picture is barred from some
* * * cities while in other cities it is only permitted
America's Making News tells of the piece real artistic setting, this picture has come
of art to be exhibited by Meta Warrick to Europe
Fuller to poison
at the comingtheexposition,
minds ofunsuspec
"America's
Making."

Mrs. Fuller is now at work on a commission given by the Negro Group. She. is
designing a statue which will be in the centre of the Negro exhibit, showing a fem
figure emerging from the wrappings of a

29
30 THE CRISIS

The most serious indictment against the certain positions in order to free themselves
picture is that it falsifies history and from foreign
glorifies the tutelage.
most notorious band of crimin
in American history. Congressionalinvestigations Such was the proved
basic idea
that of first
thea Ku KluxPan-
Klan
a dangerous band of criminals bent on African Congress
murdering not onlyheldinnocent
in ParisNegroes
in 1919but ana als
conscientious whites, who sought to erect presided over by M. Diagne, the French
political institutions on the ruins of the Deputy from Senegal andhighCommissioner
slave oligarchy. Nowhere can one find there were present at these meetingsdel
either in written records or tradition the over the g l o b e great majority of the
crimes charged in the picture againstNegroes delegates came, however, duringfromthe America
Reconstruc
never dominated the legislature of any where there are at present 12 millions of
state during the Reconstruction Period. Negroes emancipated 60years ago who,
Only once and then for only two years in aided by the United States, have continued
the Lower House in South Carolina did the to work out their intellectual, economic and
Negroes outnumber the whites; the ratio political emancipation. There are several
being 3:2 and not as the picture charges financial institutions in America, founded
more than 5:1. Laws permittingintermarriage and run by Negroes,
could and
not the
havefortune
been of the b
passed
Negroes even then, for the whites always blacks in the United States is estimated at
had an overwhelming majority in the Upper 5 billions. Chamber. A The
similar development
picture does nothas showtaken
the fact that Negroes established the first place in the intellectual and educational
free public school system in the South. Nor fields. Negroes have created over there, aw
andgranted
do we find in it the fact thatsuffrage—restricted—wasnot even atheuniversity
Negroes attended
until only
the bvSouth
subterfuges as: A Negro found without members of their own race so that today
suitable employment shall be hired the American
preferably Negroes
to his former havefor
master reallyaccom
his board
and lodging; and a Negro impudent to a
white by word or gesture is guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall be returned to his
master on the same terms.

These colored men, to use a currentexp

the world, and who found themselves during t
of a sacred cause, finally felt the desire to
found a native organization—that is to say,
they asked themselves what, after all, was
their original country, and if they should
not lay claim to it and show that by their
efforts to emancipate themselves, they had
conquered the right to aspire to the obtainm
hadbecause
Griffith's other play was barred, I understand, not been, as itoffense
it gave were, to
allowed to
Germany.
But, alas! the Negro is the defenseless
victim of lies and can only appeal to the
conscience of mankind. I address these remarks to the good people of Copenhagen
because the world has suffered so much by This original country, according to them,
ignoring the mandate of the Man who said is Africa. Hence this Pan-AfricanCo
nearly 2,000 years ago: "Ye shall know the in Paris revealed the means of civilization
truth and the truth shall make you free." and of emancipation possessed by these colo

The movement is very interesting to

FROM BRUSSELS study. Those who are engrossed with the
THE Belgian L'Exportateur Beige writes question of the future and the evolution
of the sessions of the Pan-AfricanCongress of a race that was formerly
held in rather badlyRayf
Brussels.
translates: treated and—as History tells us—for a
long time held in the bonds of slavery are
beginning to have that idea.
After contributing with their well-known The promoters of the first Congress are
courage and self-sacrifice to the operations planning to hold a second session in Brussels.
of war that finally assured once more the
maintenance of threatened civilization, the
Negroes, fighting in the ranks of the various
CONCERNINGallied armies,MOBbegan toVIOLENCE
reflect in the
different parts of Europe where they were
in contact with a way of living and of The
organizing Indianapolis
life totally unfamiliar to tells
News of Indiana them,
and said to one another, that it would perhapsus: be well to study, in their turn, the
means of creating a mode of living similar One cannot read the papers even in the
to that in Europe and at the same time most casual way without being impressed
of qualifying themselves to fulfill, like the and shocked by the growing popularity of
whites, certain functions and to occupy lynch law in this country. Whether the
and feathered, burned at the stake or
hanged, the act is, in essence, lynching­
 THE LOOKING GLASS
t h o u g h perhaps not technically so. F o r it
is the execution o f a sentence passed b , :
those w h o have no r i g h t to pass it, and the
" l a w " e n f o r c e d is nothing more than the
will or w h i m o f those w h o set themselves
up as the guardians o f w h a t is s u p p o s e d -
by the guardians—to be the public welfare.
* * *
T o which the Rochester, N . Y . , Herald
adds:
Racial r a n c o r and anciently implanted
antipathies are not peculiar to any section
o r limited b y climatic or political bounda­
ries, if recent happenings are to be taken
as evidence. Even the rockribbed conserva­
tism of N e w E n g l a n d seems not to be proof
against the l y n c h i n g f e v e r when the neces
sary incentive is applied.
* * *
T h e Buffalo, N. Y . , Evening Times gives
us the following thoughts on mob violence,
and points out the w a y to stop it.
T h e "authorities" in the various com­
munities seem to be paralyzrd with fright
o r incapacity, and indeed in some instances
show a disposition entirely in sympathy
with the mobs.
T h e thing is getting to be a fashion. Cus­
tom soon becomes law. It is a serious sit­
u a t i o n ; but it raises a question still more
serious,—are w e degenerating as a people,
or are w e merely s h o w i n g ourselves in our
true c o l o r s ? T h e w a r has torn the masks
from m a n y nations. Is its influence divest­
ing us o f a masquerade?
W h e t h e r these queries are answered in
the affirmative or the negative, one thing
is certain—this w a v e of lawlessness could,
and can, be stopped forthwith by those w h o
have been sworn to uphold the law. I f the
President o f the United States were to is­
sue a proclamation denouncing "lynch l a w "
and directing the A t t o r n e y General's De­
partment to pursue and punish with merci­
less severity within the Federal jurisdic­
tion e v e r y person convicted of participation
in such outrages, and if the President would
further appeal to the Governors o f the vari­
ous States to follow his example with simi­
lar proclamations and direction? to the
District A t t o r n e y s of all counties in the
different Commonwealths, the c o w a r d l y and
dastardly " l y n c h i n g p a r t i e s " would in­
stantly seek cover after the fashion of such
g r e g a r i o u s assassins.
* * *
T h r o u g h the Herald, o f Erie, Pa., we
learn:
Massachusetts and Tennessee, a northern
and a southern st'-ite, have just been fur­
nishing commendable illustrations o f h o w
to prevent lynching. T h e y have both dem­
onstrated that m o b violence cannot prevail
w h e r e the constituted authorities are pos­
sessed o f the moral c o u r a g e and the will to
suppress it.
Barnstable and K n o x v i l l e were fortunate
in the possession o f resolute officials at a
31
time when c o u r a g e and resolution were
most needed. In the Massachusetts case
the mob displayed the usual mob character­
istics and cowered when it saw itself op­
posed by armed authority. A t Knoxville
a little blood-letting was found necessary,
but the mob did not stand f o r much of it
and has probably learned its lesson.
Promptness and energy in the suppres­
sion o f lawlessness is always effective. In­
decision and a disposition to compromise
with the mob spirit always encourages vio­
lence.
Knoxville and Barnstable have furnished
two excellent examples of law enforcement
which will have the unqualified approval
of all w h o believe in A m e r i c a n ideals.
* * *
Further, we read in the Cincinnati, Ohio,
Commercial Tribune, these encouraging
words:
In the matter o f lynch law and mob exe­
cution in protection of women from the
menace of brutish baseness there has just
been given an expression by southern wom­
en that is at once illuminating and inspir­
ing. T h e emanation is in form of a state
ment issued from a special section of the
Georgia State Committee on Inter-Racial
Co-operation. The membership of this sec­
tion, it is stated, is composed entirely of
southern women. T h e statement r e a d s :
We believe that no falser appeal can be
made to southern manhood than that mob
violence is necessary for the protection of
womanhood, or that the brutal practice of
lynching and burning human beings is an
expression of chivalry. We believe that
these methods are no protection to anything
or anybody, but that they jeopardize every
right and every security that we possess.
T h a t is a preachment in behalf of orderly
observance of law founded on a principle
«-i<f>t adhered to « s here set forth, cannot
but b r i n g about rigorous, righteous enforce­
ment of law. It is an appeal from lawless
r.ess to law, from the specious argument of
curing violence by violence of the sound
argument o f insuring immunity under law
by referring all crimes and misdemeanors
to adjudication through law.
This may be womanly intuition of which
we are wont to prate. It is essentially w o ­
manly intelligence sensing right which
alone is cure f o r w r o n g .
* * *
The Brooklyn, N. Y . , Eagle, o b s e r v e s :
It is a pleasure to note that women as
women, even Georgia women, are tired
of what has camouflaged the lynching ter­
ror for half a century.
F o r m e r G o v e r n o r Hugh Dorsey, whose
manly attack on Judge Lynch was univer
sally applauded by right-thinking persons,
seemed to have been beaten down by the
reactionaries when H a r d w i c k became Gov­
ernor and the executive policy was changed.
But this new development gives fresh illus­
tration to the proposition that right conduct
32 THE CRISIS
and true speaking are never without per­
manent effect, no matter how unpopular
for the moment. T h e State of Georgia will
be brought close to D o r s e y ' s position if
these energetic women keep up their w o r k .
A n d to the material industrial interests o f
Georgia no greater service can be done
than the establishment o f fair play to the
Negroes, on whose skilled and unskilled
labor the State must long depend.
THE VOTE
I N the Call o f N e w Y o r k , we r e a d :
W e have had occasion the past year or
two to call attention to the changing po­
litical conditions o f the South as a result
of the increasing importance of capitalist
production in that section. W e have point­
ed out that the Republican p a r t y has been
gradually dumping its N e g r o traditions to
win the support of the southern oligarchy
T o d a y the views of the party as formulated
by Lincoln, Sumner and Seward have been
practically repudiated. If these men were
to return today they would find a rapidly
increasing coalition of the Republican party
with the southern ruling class and that the
terms o f the coalition are the sacrifice of
the N e g r o . Over his prostrate body the
ruling classes o f two sections make peace.
A dispatch to the Evening Post from
Richmond, V a . , shows that the bargain is
being consummated. It is agreed by the
Republicans of that state that they are to
be a "white man's p a r t y . " More significant
still is the statement: "It is understood
that this innovation meets with entire ap­
proval at W a s h i n g t o n . " This means that the
bargain with southern Democrats has the
approval o f the national Republican lead­
ers. N e g r o Republicans were barred from
the Republican Club o f Richmond by the
police when they sought to participate in
the election of delegates to the state con­
vention.
"In exchange f o r the loss o f its N e g r o
auxiliaries," w e read, "the Renublicans in
Virginia have gained the suptiort of manv
men o f influence and wealth." Among
these are railroad presidents, hankers, cap­
: to show, in o u r address to the N e g r o lead­
italists and business men of R c h m o n d , Nor­
folk, L y n c h b u r g and other cities. In short,
the Republican aggregation is admitted to
be a consolidation of catrtalist wealth and
power. It is to maintain an unwritten
agreement with the Democratic c a r r y f o r
the complete exclusion of the N e ° r o from
elections. The agreement frees the ruling
class of V i r g i n i a from dependence upon
one political machine.
O n ° congressional district has been car­
ried b y the Republicans f o r a number o f
years and the Republican vote has boen
s r o w i n e in other districts. T h e Republi­
can national committee has already taken
steps to eliminate the N e ? r o from its coun­
cils and Republican conventions with the
;
exnectat on that a "lily w h i t e " Republican
parfv will increase in power in the South
All this follows the marked economic
changes of the last half century which are
slowly t r a n s f o r m i n g the South into an im­
age of the capitalist North. It. indicates
the sweep o f capitalist production to the
Gulf. The old political traditions o f Lin­
coln and other early leaders o f the Repub­
lican p a r t y are being abandoned and the
b a r g a i n consists o f the c o m p l e t e social, eco
nomic and political degradation o f the Ne­
g r o w o r k e r s of the South. It also carries
with it a similar degradation f o r m a n y
hundreds o f thousands o f w h i t e workers
w h o are excluded f r o m the franchise by
various exception laws.
T h e last semblance o f difference between
both political parties in national politics
is being wiped out. Capitalism is national
and its parties at last b e c o m e national in
scope. T h e N e g r o Republican leaders who
have led masses o f N e g r o e s to their be­
trayal are themselves b e i n g kicked in the
face f o r their treachery. A final chapter
in the orientation o f the t w o - p a r t y machine
of capitalism is b e i n g written f o r the in­
struction o f the w o r k i n g class o f all colors
and degrees o f e c o n o m i c servitude.
THE SOUTH AND "MR."
T N an article in The Christian States­
* wan, the H o n . Bolton Smith o f Memphis,
Tenn., has this to s a y :
The white people in every locality o f the
South should get in close touch with the
conservative local N e g r o leaders. They
should g r a n t all possible requests coming
from them f o r the i m p r o v e m e n t o f the
:
schools and living c o n d i t o n s o f their peo­
ple and f o r their protection in person and
property. Such leaders should be en­
couraged to speak with frankness to local
white leaders o f the conditions o f which
their people complain and fault should not
readily be found with them f o r w h a t they
m a y say to their own people. If w e think
them mistaken w e should reason with them,
not threaten them. If they are not allowed
a certain freedom in their intercourse with
their people, w e cannot e x p e c t them to
have influence with them. W e must begin
ers f o r w h o m we feel respect, some o f that
respect w e should s h o w to the m o s t or­
dinary members o f o u r own race. A N e g r o
leader o f standing and c h a r a c t e r is enti­
tled to be addressed as Mr., and his wife
as Mrs., f o r in our own t o n g u e w e h a v e no
:
other title of respect. W e do it n o w n cor­
respondence and I believe w e must do it in
speech. This will be difficult to m a n y of
us, but I can see no other course if w e
hope to maintain relations o f genuine s y m ­
pathy with these leaders. T h i s s the only;
civilized country in the world in which all
Negroes—high and low—are addressed
alike. In other lands it has been the ef­
fort to so treat the N e g r o leader that
he would side with the white man's g o v ­
ernment. T h e difficulty o f o u r problem has
been increased b y o u r f a i l u r e to do this
 AMERICAN NEGRO MINISTERS A T THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF METHODISM. IN LONDON,
W i t h portraits of Bishops Coppin, Smith and Jones; Secretaries Hawkins and W r i g h t ; Dr. W . S. Scarborough; Mrs. J. F. Hurst; and others.
 The Horizon
C O M P I L E D BV M A D E L I N E
MUSIC AND ART
S T U D E N T S of Myrtilla Miner Normal
School, Washington, D. C , have pre­
sented a pageant, " T h e Beckoning Spirit,"
which depicts the history o f their school.
The w o r k was under the direction of J.
Francis G r e g o r y of the English Depart­
ment.
(i Granville L. Stewart, tenor, Louie V .
Jones, violinist, and William S. L a w r e n c e
pianist-accompanist, have been making ;
tour of towns in Nova Scoti i. Numbers
that have particularly pleased their audi­
ences are "Reflection," taken from Dunba
by William S. L a w r e n c e ; " R i s i n g Sun," by
R. Nathaniel Dett; and N e g r o "Spirituals,'
by H. T. Burleigh.
G Elmer C. Bartlett has given an o r g a r
recital at First A . M. E. Church, Los A n g e
les, Cal. His p r o g r a m included works i
Bach, Coleridge-Taylor, Guilmant, Dubois
and Horatio Parker.
(I M a y o r Hylan's Committee on City Mu­
sic, in N e w Y o r k City, included the Ne­
gro in its presentations. T h e 15th Regi­
ment Band and Revella E. Hughes, soprano,
rendered numbers, among which were
Tchaikowsky's " 1 8 1 2 , " Arditi's " A h W o n ­
drous M o r n " and "II B a c i o , " and Coleridge
Taylor's " E x p l a n a t i o n . "
C Mamie Smith, the colored " j a z z " singer
for phonograph records, has filled a 3-day
engagement at the Regent Theatre, Balti­
more, Md., where she was paid $1,000 per
day.
EDUCATION
THE Atlanta School o f Social Sen-ice is
conducting its 2nd session at Morehouse
College. Courses lead to secretaryships of
associated charities, anti-tuberculosis asso­
ciations and Urban L e a g u e s ; probation and
attendance officers; recreation directors and
welfare workers in churches, Y . M. C. A . ' s ,
Y . W . C. A.'s and industries.
G Mildred D. Brown, a colored girl in Jer­
sey City, N. J., has entered Lincoln High
34
G . A L L I S O N
School at the age of eleven.
C Colored high school students in Brook­
lyn, N . Y . , have organized the Alplm Chi
Sigma F r a t e r n i t y in the interest o f higher
scholarship. W i l l i a m A . Hunton, Jr., is the
secretary.
C G o v e r n o r H y d e has released $100,000 for
the erection o f a d o r m i t o r y at Lincoln
University, Jefferson City, M o .
G The State B o a r d o f Education has voted
to discontinue secondary w o r k at W e s t Vir­
ginia Collegiate Institute. Units o f work
now include colleges o f education, engineer­
ing, agriculture, industrial education, arts,
science, home economics and business ad­
ministration. Messrs. F. C. Sumner, Ph.D.,
p s y c h o l o g y ; A . P. Hamblin, B.S., b i o l o g y ;
.and E. L. Kelly, B.S., home economics, have
been added to the faculty. T h e president
is John W . Davis.
G A t the University o f C h i c a g o , H . Coun­
cill Trenholm has been awarded the de­
gree of Bachelor o f P h i l o s o p h y with hon­
ors. He is a member o f the Alphi Phi
Alpha F r a t e r n i t y . M r . T r e n h o ' m will teach
at the State N o r m a l School in M o n t g o m e r y ,
Ala., this year.
C Meta L. Christy, a colored girl of Koko­
mo, Ind., has received the degree o f Doc­
tor o f Osteopathy f r o m the Philadelphia
College and Hospital f o r Osteopathy.
C W a l t e r L. Smith has been appointed to
succeed Garnet G. Wilkinson as principal
of Dunbar High School in W a s h i n g t o n ,
D. C. M r . Smith is a g r a d u a t e o f H o w a r d
University. H e has been a teacher in
W a s h i n g t o n since 1902.
C Prof. Roscoe C. B r u c e , f o r m e r l y Assist­
ant Superintendent o f Colored Schools, in
W a s h i n g t o n , D . C , has accepted the po­
sition o f Rural Supervisor o f Schools in
Huntington, W . V a . H i s s a l a r y is $3,000
a year.
Cl F o r t Dearborn Hospital and T r a i n i n g
School f o r Nurses has been opened in Chi­
c a g o , 111. N e g r o e s m a y enter f o r nurse
training and interneship.
 THE HORIZON
C Since the b e g i n n i n g of the present school
session, 15 rural school houses have been
opened f o r N e g r o e s in Tennessee. Julius
Rosenwald contributed $50,000 t o w a r d fi­
n a n c i n g this w o r k .
C T h e Colored H i g h School at L y n c h b u r g ,
V a . , opened this t e r m with a N e g r o faculty.
M a n y f o r m e r students, w h o had dropped
out while white teachers were in c h a r g e ,
have re-enrolled.
(I John W . Lee has been awarded a scholar­
ship at the University of Pennsylvania.
C B y making Grade A a v e r a g e , Charles
H . Houston, a N e g r o law student at H a r ­
vard University, has automatically become
one o f the editors of the Harvard Law Re­
view. H i s a v e r a g e , 75 percent, is the high­
est ever made b y a colored law student.
C Estella L o v e t t has been appointed A s ­
sistant Principal at the B o o k e r T. W a s h ­
ington School in Kansas City, M o . Miss
Lovett was f o r m e r l y Girls' W o r k Secretary
at the P a s e o B r a n c h of the Y . W . C. A .
C. In W a s h i n g t o n , D . C , the Dunbar High
School opened this y e a r with an enrollment
of 1,267 as against 1,120 last y e a r ; the
A r m s t r o n g Manual T r a i n i n g School report*
an enrollment of 731, an increase of 2 4 2 ;
at the S h a w Junior High School there are
319 students as compared with 215 on open­
ing day last year.
(I Charles Chandler, a N e g r o student in the
Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y L a w School, has been ap­
pointed a contributing editor o f the Yale
Law Journal.
MEETINGS
OVER 8,000 people were in attendance
at the National Baptist Convention,
Inc., which was held in Chicago. Dr. E . C.
Morris, o f Little Rock, A r k . , was re-elected
president. T h e R e v . M r . L. G. Jordan re­
signed the secretaryship, after 26 y e a r s '
service. H e was m a d e secretary emeritus
with a salary o f $1,200 per year and a purse
of $2,500. Dr. J, E . E a s t , a returned mis­
sionary f r o m A f r i c a , was elected to suc­
ceed M r . J o r d a n . The financ'al report
shows $323,860 raised during the year. Dr.
M o r r i s denounced the plan o f northern
white Baptists to set up regional organiza­
tions a m o n g N e g r o e s .
C T h e L o t t - C a r e y F o r e i g n Mission Conven­
tion and the W o m e n ' s A u x i l i a r y have been
held in N e w a r k , N . J. T h e sum o f $38,000
was raised f o r w o r k in A f r i c a , South A m e r ­
ica and Haiti. D r . C. S. B r o w n and Mrs.
35
J. H. Randolph, o f Richmond, V a . , are pres
idents o f the convention and the auxiliary.
C More than 300 delegates attended the
8th triennial convention o f St. Joseph's
Aid Society, which convened in Jersey City,
N. J. T h e organization has 100,000 mem­
bers and property valued at $100,000; its
cash balance is $50,000. Dr. Thomas H. B.
Walker, o f Jacksonville, Fla., is president.
C F o u r thousand people attended the Bap­
tist Convention, unincorporated, which was
held in N e w Orleans, with Dr. E. P. Jones
presiding. Dr. R. H. Boyd, corresponding
secretary of the National Baptist Publish­
ing Board, reported that more than $225,­
000 had been collected by the Board. With
the addition of the National Baptist Theo­
logical Seminary and T r a i n i n g School at
Nashville, worth $250,000, the publishing
plant is valued at $750,000.
INDUSTRY
THE Square Deal Realty & Loan Com­
pany, a N e g r o enterprise in Kansas
City, Mo., is conducting departments in real
estate, insurance, m o r t g a g e loans and home
building. Its capital o f $250,000 is fully
paid and non-assessable. It is p a y i n g quar­
terly dividends of 8 percent. Samuel R.
Hopkins is president.
C A t Buffalo, N. Y „ the Haitian-African
Coffee Company, a N e g r o concern, owns a
4-story building where colored people are
employed in roasting and blending coffee.
C Mr. R. S. Cobb, secretary of the Missouri
N e g r o Industrial Commission, has published
a bulletin on housing and health conditions
in Missouri.
C A N e g r o clerk in the Jersey City, N . J.,
Post Office, R o b e r t Evans, has been pro­
moted to the position of statistician.
C A m o n g employees in the Department of
Finance of Jersey City, N. J., are the fol­
lowing Ne<rroes: James Tate and Clarence
Jones, rent inspectors; Gilbert B r o w n , jit­
ney inspector, and Louis Faulkner, deputy
sheriff.
C In A k r o n , Ohio, Norman K e r r is a sten­
ographer in the Engineer's Office, being the
first N e g r o clerk in this office.
(I Zova E. O. Tinsley, a blind N e g r o in
Muskogee, Okla., owns 45 miles of tele­
phone service. He has 49 subscribers who
pay from $2.50 to $3.50 per month. Mr.
Tinsley does his own line work, repairs in­
struments and makes installations.
C Fourteen years ago, Charles Copper, a
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N e g r o , entered the Civil Service o f Chicago,
111., as a j u n i o r clerk. He n o w holds a
position in the Division o f Pipe Y a r d s and
Stores, with 17 clerks, 13 o f w h o m are
white, under his charge.
C U p to A p r i l 30, 1921, the colored Berry
& Ross M a n u f a c t u r i n g C o m p a n y , in N e w
Y o r k City, made a net sale o f $37,312; it
paid to its colored workers, $14,560.
0 T h e report o f the L a b o r e r s ' Penny Sav­
ings and Loan Company, in W a y c r o s s , Ga.,
shows that during the fiscal year ending
A u g u s t 31, 1921, the paid-in capital had
increased from $28,811 to $47,463; deposits,
from $68,318 to $97,060; total resources,
from $107,705 to $149,677. The bank o w n s
$16,025 worth o f real estate, $7,301 in stock
and Liberty Bonds, and has no bills pay­
able. A dividend o f 8 percent was declared.
The officers a r e : Carlton W . Gains, presi­
dent; Dr. H. C. Scarlett, vice-president; J.
C. M c G r a w , t r e a s u r e r ; and O. R. Harper,
cashier.
C W i l l i a m A . Cornelius, a N e g r o in N e w
Y o r k City, has been appointed to a clerk­
ship in the Office of the Collector of In­
ternal Revenue. His salary is $1,600 per
year.
C In the City T a x Office in Philadelphia,
Pa., there are 2 colored deputy delinquent
tax collectors, 2 deputy collectors, 7 senior
grade clerks and 2 janitors.
CRIME
THE following lynchings have taken
place since our last r e c o r d :
Aiken, S. C , September 8, Mansfield
Butler, shot; attacking w o m a n .
Aiken, S. C , September 8, Charlie
Thompson, shot; attacking woman.
Columbia, La., September 13, Gilman
Holmes, burned; attacking ticket agent.
Pittsboro, N. C , September 18, Ernest
Daniels, h a n g e d ; attacking woman.
McComb, Miss., September 19, E d w a r d
McDowell.
POLITICS
NEGROES have f o r the first time been
appointed to the Hudson County, N . J.,
Board of Election. The appointees are Mrs.
Florence Jerome, Mrs. Rosa Frazier, Miss
M. Goldsborough, Mrs. Ella Barksdale
B r o w n , Dr. G. W a r r e n Hooper, C. Bion
Jones and Alderwin Thomas.
C In the primary election in Baltimore,
t w o Negro Republicans won nomination as
delegates to the M a r y l a n d Legislature. The
nominees are A t t o r n e y A r t h u r E . Briscoe,
w h o has served a clerkship in the Legisla­
ture, and David R o b i n s o n , a business man.
Each candidate w a s fourth on his district
list, with 1,148 and 1,700 votes, respec­
tively.
C A m o s W . Scott, a N e g r o in Philadelphia,
won Republican nomination f o r City Magis­
trate.
(I In the p r i m a r y election in N e w York
City, t w o N e g r o members o f the B o a r d of
A l d e r m e n — D r . Charles H. R o b e r t s and
G e o r g e W . H a r r i s , w e r e re-nominated.
d N e g r o e s in Louisville, K y . , have organ­
ized the Lincoln Independent P a r t y . A full
city and c o u n t y ticket, with the exception
of the j u d i c i a r y , will be put into the field.
FRATERNITIES
IN Jacksonville, Fla., the Progressive
Order o f Men and W o m e n has held its
first Grand C o n g r e s s . T h e Order, which
was organized 10 years a g o , h a s a member­
ship o f 1,500. D r . H . W . J a m e s , Dr. John
E . F o r d and P r o f e s s o r N . W . Collier are
officials, and the H o n . M r . G e o r g e E . Tay­
lor is general organizer. A m o n g measures
adopted by the Congress is the erection of
a $100,000 temple.
C Masons in Indianapolis, Ind., have laid
the cornerstone o f a $100,000 temple.
C T h e m o r t g a g e on the M a s o n i c Temple in
Jacksonville, Fla., has been burned. The
temple is valued at $500,000. M r . O. D.
Powell is Grand Master.
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
THIRTEEN meetings to p r o m o t e health
educational plans w e r e held last month
f o r ministers, physicians and leaders of
public thought in C h i c a g o b y the Chicago
Urban League. Dr. Ralph B. S t e w a r t , of
the United States Public Health Service,
and Franklin O. Nichols, o f the American
Social H y g i e n e A s s o c i a t i o n , w e r e the speak­
ers.
C T. A r n o l d Hill, E x e c u t i v e S e c r e t a r y of
the Chicago Urban L e a g u e , is s e r v i n g as a
member o f the E x e c u t i v e Committee o f the
U n e m p l o y m e n t Conference f o r m e d t o han­
dle unemployment in t h a t city.
C T h r o u g h the A r m s t r o n g A s s o c i a t i o n of
Philadelphia, affiliated with the National
Urban League, an athletic director f o r girls
at the D u r h a m Public School has been ap­
pointed. Besides her athletic w o r k with
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girls d u r i n g the period allotted f o r recrea­
tion, she is developing self-governing clubs.
C T h e H o m e and School V i s t o r s , f o r m e r l y
employed b y the A r m s t r o n g Association as
a demonstration o f the possibilities of
school visiting, have been taken over b y the
public school system—thus j u s t i f y i n g the
experiment o f the A r m s t r o n g Association.
d In the neighborhood o f one public school
in Philadelphia, which has about 1,400 col­
ored pupils, the w o r k o f a H o m e and School
V i s t o r has resulted in the establishment o f
one o f the best equipped day nurseries in
Philadelphia, the H a r r i s o n D a y Nursery.
It has a c c o m m o d a t i o n s f o r 70 children.
C The M a y o r ' s U n e m p l o y m e n t Committee
of N e w Y o r k City h a s as one o f its mem­
bers, James H . Hubert, E x e c u t i v e Secre­
t a r y of the N e w Y o r k Urban League.
C T h e " F e l l o w s " appointed b y the N a t i o n r
al Urban L e a g u e f o r the school y e a r 1921­
22 a r e : T. Lloyd Hickman, graduate of
Denison University, assigned to the N e w
Y o r k School o f Social W o r k ; Miss Kather­
ine B . W a t t s , g r a d u a t e o f Fisk University,
assigned to the N e w Y o r k School o f Social
W o r k ; and Miss Myrtle D . Hull, graduate
of Spelman Seminary, assigned to the
School o f E c o n o m i c s o f the University of
Pittsburgh.
C The A n n u a l Conference o f the National
Urban L e a g u e was held in C h i c a g o , October
19 to 22. A m o n g subjects discussed w e r e
unemployment, the N e g r o migrant, plans
f o r recording and interpreting statistics as
a basis f o r practical social effort, industrial
relations and co-operation between the
races.
(I The Department o f Research and Inves­
tigations o f the National Urban League,
of which Charles S. Johnson is the director,
has completed a social survey of the Ne­
groes in Flushing, L. I., and is n o w at
w o r k on a similar study in H a r t f o r d , Conn.
It is w o r k i n g under the immediate auspices
of the M a y o r ' s A m e r i c a n i z a t i o n Commit­
tee.
C A s a result o f the child hygiene w o r k
which is being done in N e w a r k , N . J., by
three colored nurses appointed through the
efforts o f the N e w Jersey Urban League,
Dr. Julius L e v y , D i r e c t o r o f the Bureau o f
Child H y g i e n e , reports that infant mortal­
ity a m o n g colored babies f o r the first six
months o f 1921 w a s 106 per 1,000 births,
while f o r 1920 it w a s 173 per 1,000 births,
37
and f o r 1919 it was 171 per 1,000 births.
T h i s is a reduction in one year o f 67 points.
d Dr. George E . Haynes was appointed a
member o f President Harding's Unemploy­
ment Conference, following protests o f the
National Urban League and its branches
against the omission of N e g r o representa­
tion. D r . Haynes was assigned special
w o r k with the Committee on Community
Civic and E m e r g e n c y Measures in dealing
with unemployment. Col. A r t h u r W o o d s ,
of N e w Y o r k , is chairman of this commit­
tee.
SOCIAL PROGRESS
THE Reconnaissance Francaise, a bronze
medal, has been awarded to Dr. Har­
riet A . Rice b y the French Government f o r
services in the French military hospitals
during the world w a r . Dr. Rice is a N e g r o
graduate of Wellesley College and of the
W o m e n ' s Medical College of N e w Y o r k .
(I V i c t o r R. D a l y has been appointed to
the staff o f the Journal of Negro History,
in W a s h i n g t o n , D . C , as business manager.
M r . D a l y is a graduate o f Cornell. He
served as a Lieutenant in the 367 " B u f f a l o "
Regiment.
C Mrs. E. D . Cannaday, a colored woman
of Portland, Ore., has been admitted to the
Bar. She recently pleaded a case in Judge
M o r r o w ' s court and won her action.
(I N e w Y o r k City has its first N e g r o detec­
tive sergeant, in the person of W e s l e y Red­
ding. M r . Redding has been connected with
the Police Department 18 months.
C A tablet in memory o f H a y w a r d Shep­
pard is to be erected in H a r p e r ' s Ferry,
W . V a . , b y the Daughters o f the Confed­
eracy. Mr. Sheppard, a N e g r o porter, was
the first person killed in the raid of John
Brown.
(T The price of business property which
Dr. Charles E. Herriot purchased in St.
Louis, Mo., is $30,000 instead of $80,000.
d M r . C. G. Williams, o f Booneville, has
been appointed Inspector of N e g r o Schools
in Missouri.
C The 25th anniversary of the Northeast­
ern Federation o f Colored W o m e n ' s Clubs
has been celebrated in Baltimore, Md.
Miss Elizabeth Carter, o f N e w Bedford,
Mass., is president.
d In the national tennis championship meet,
Tally Holmes, o f W a s h i n g t o n , D. C , won
in men's singles, defeating Dr. O. B. Wil­
liams, o f Chicago. The scores were 6—4,
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of Chicago, 111., has become a certified avia­
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Women and Girls
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C Samuel A . Barnett has been awarded a N a n n i e H . B u r r o u g h s , President
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C Earl Johnson, a N e g r o athlete, of Brad-
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Make Ideal Homes I am in a position to sell you a

Where You Will Enjoy beautiful home in C O R O N A , L . I.
Splendid Schools Attractive one and two family
No Segregation No Lynching homes in the most delightful sec­
Good Roads
tion of N e w York City. All city
Civil and Political Rights
improvements, best of schools
Peace and Plenty
and very convenient to any sec­
MICHIGAN WANTS YOU tion of N e w York City for 5
W e have Ten Thousand Acres of ex­ cents.
cellent, new, hardwood, farming lands
for sale at from T E N to F I F T E E N
Or will build to suit the demands
D O L L A R S P E R A C R E in parcels of
forty acres or more. Eighty acres of any one.
make an ideal Farm Home.
These lands will be allotted to appli­ Full information cheerfully given
cants in the order they are received.
All land guaranteed as represented.
Peaches, pears, plums, apples, ber­
L. S. R E E D
ries and small fruits, melons and all 46 E a s t Jackson A v e .
kinds of garden produce are raised CORONA, N. Y . CITY
abundantly.
Fowl, pigs, sheep and livestock thrive.
For further information apply to:
T e l e p h o n e 348

MICHIGAN LAND & HOMESTEAD CO. HOTEL MARY

(A New Hotel)
ELIZABETH
325 Broadway M a r k e t Building W. B. SAWYER. Proprietor
Nearest colored Hotel to Business center of Miami
DETROIT - - MICHIGAN PRICES REASONABLE
Fill out and mail this blank today. SPECIAL RATES TO HOTEL MEN
Will be opened N o v . 1st, 1921
Michigan Land & Homestead Co., Cor. 7 t h S t . , N . W . 2nd Ave. MIAMI, FLA.
326 Broadway Market Bids.,
Detroit, Mich.
Gentlemen: Please send to my address
full particulars about your Michigan Farm­
ing Lands proposition. It Is understood t h a t
Badges, Banners, Lodge Regalia
I Incur no liability in making this applica­ For all Lodge and Church Societies
tion.
Name CENTRAL REGALIA C O .
JOS. L. J O N E S , Pre..
P. 0 . Address
State 641 W . 9th St. Cincinnati. Ohio

Service Engineering and Construction Company

H E R M A N E. PERRY, W . P. T E R R E L L ,
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Architects Engineers Constructors

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CONSTELLATION FILM CORPORATION

28 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y .

OFFERS $200,000 CLASS A STOCK

Registrar Transfer Agent
HARRIMAN NATIONAL BANK CENTRAL N A T I O N A L CORPORATION
New W k New York
Authorized Class A Stock par value $10 per share; To be Outstanding
$200,000 P a r t i c i p a t i n g and Preferred as to dividends up $100,000
to 10'< , full-paid and non-assessable.

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

President
MADISON
Formerly General Manager,
Henry W . Savage Enterprises.
Secretary &
EDW. G, W . FERGUSON
Pres., Edw. G. W . Ferguson
& Co., Inc., Pres. Central
National Corporation.
Vice-President Vice-President
COREY C H A R L E S W . ANDERSON
R O B E R T J. RAYSON
Former Collector Internal Edw. G. \Y. Ferguson & Co
Revenue, New York City. Inc., New York City.
Director
REV. DR. W . W . B R O W N
Treasurer Director
Pastor, Metropolitan Baptist
Church, New York JAMES F. ADAIR
Director District Grand Secretary
EDW. STAATS L U T H E R Grand United Order of Odd
Political Editor Fellows in America
The Morning Telegraph

An enterprise, devoted to the utilization of the racial talent, unprejudiced, free from propa­
ganda, g i v i n g the fullest possible outlet to the literature of the Negro race, to its elevation and the
picturization of its brightest side.

The following is quoted in full from

a letter by Mr. Charles W. Anderson,
ex-collector of Internal Revenut-, New
York City, who is a Vice President
The following is quoted in full from and Director of Constellation Film The following is quoted in full from
a letter by Reverend Dr. W. W. Brown, Corporation: a letter by .lames F, Adair. District
Pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church, Edw. G. W, Ferguson & Company, Inc. GRAND Secretary, Grand UNITED Order
New York, a Director of the Company. New York. X . Y. of Odd Fellows in America:
Edw. G. W. Ferguson & Company. Inc. Dear Sirs: Edw. G. W. Ferguson & Company, Inc.
New York, N. Y . In response to your request, I am New York. N, Y.
glad to give you my op.nion of Con­
Gentlemen: stellation Film Corporation.
In join ng the Constellation Film There is a decided field and need Gentlemen:
Corporation organization I did s o with for a concern that can and will sup­ As a Director of Constellation Film
a full realization of Its importance to ply the Negro with motion pictures in Corporation, I have no hesitancy in
our people. The race should h a v it* which his own people play the parts— asserting that the enterprise is worthy
pictures that are clean, inspiring, un­ of the fullest support of the Colored
own picture producing unit, it should prejudiced and t hat depict life as it
hare inspiring, clean, up-to-date pro­ Race, since its work will be elevating,
is and the Negro In his true char­ educational, and will materially ad­
ductions in which our own performers acter, a patriotic man and a worthy­ vance our people and their interest.
display their talents and it should have citizen.
an outlet for Its own constantly in­
creasing literature. The Class A security, having a I believe the ( l a s s A Stock of the
preferential claim on earnings up to Company to BP an exceedingly good
The News Service will likewise be of 10<7 should be a highly
r profitable END high YIELDING investment and that
the greatest importance. Investment. the Company will be honestly and effi­
I therefore have no hesitancy in The enterprise is worthy of the full­ ciently managed.
1
recommend !!'* the enterprise to the est support and will have my entire
fullest extent. sympathy and co-operation. Very truly yours,
Very trulv yours. As an Officer and Director of the James F. Adair.
Rev. Dr. W, W . Brown. Corporation. I will see to it that the
enterprise is efficiently and honestly
managed, and that its ideals are
maintained. Vcrv truly yours,
Charles W. Anderson.

THE CLASS A STOCK of Constellation Film Corporation

is entitled to earn 1 0 " in dividends in each year.

f

Hi, i C Stock, par value $10.00 per share, is offered

a s s A at par, $10,00 per share.
The allotment offered for sale is limited to $100,000.

USE THIS COUPON

Edw. G. W . Ferguson & Co. Inc. Offered and Recommended by Eupene Davidson & Co.
28 W e s t 44th St., 2354 Seventh A v e . .
New York, N. Y.
New Y o r k , N. Y .
I enclose Dollars in payment for.
shares o f Class A Stock of Constellation Film Corporation.

Name .

Address

City . ..

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Recent Recordings of
Black Swan Records
ALL MADE BY COLORED PEOPLE

H I G H CLASS
2012 J W I T H T H E COMING OF TOMORROW Revella A . Hughes
85c ( A H WONDROUS MORN Soprano
2009 j MORNING Harry A. Delmore
86c (MACHUSHLA Tenor
2015 S SORTER MISS YOU Marianna Johnson
85c I THE ROSAKY Contralto
2013 ( SINCE YOU W E N T A W A Y J- Arthur Gaines
85c ( W H O KNOWS Tenor

DANCE NUMBERS
2026 ) GYPSY BLUES (From Shuffle Along) Henderson's Novelty
85c ( SWEET LADY Orchestra
2014 j PRETTY WAYS Black Swan Dance
85c ( T H E R E A I N ' T NO NOTHING Orchestra
2004 ( MY MAMMY Black Swan Dance
86c ( BRIGHT EYES Orchestra

MALE QUARTETTE
2016 ) A I N ' T IT A SHAME The Four Harmony Kings
86c ( GOODNIGHT A N G E L I " E of "Shuffle Along"

BLUES
2010 ( DOWN HOME BLUES Ethel Waters
85c ( O H DADDY and the Jazz Masters
2021 i T H E R E ' L L B E SOME CHANGES MADE Ethel Waters
85c ( O N E MAN N A N and the Jazz Masters
2018 ( W H E N I T ' S TOO LATE Katie Crippen
85c ( M Y CUP BLUES Singer of Blind Man Blues
2008 ( H O W LONG SWEET DADDY BLUES Alberta Hunter
85c ( B R I N G BACK T H E JOYS Chicago, 111.
2017 ( A LITTLE KIND T R E A T M E N T Georgia Gorham,
85c ( B R O A D W A Y BLUES Montgomery, Ala.

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you will find B L A C K S W A N R E C O R D S , made by a Col­
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record made, barring none. Buy one and you will buy
them regularly.

MADE BY

PACE PHONOGRAPH CORPORATION

257 W. 138th Street New York, N. Y.
AGENTS WANTED IN E V E R Y COMMUNITY
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NATIONAL CAPITAL CODE OF ETIQUETTE

Combined with SHORT STORIES FOR COLORED PEOPLE
ETIQUETTE
PART i
A Book absolutely in a class by itself. Interesting, in­
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Washington's prominent colored Society leaders on the
street; at tke Theatre; at Church; in the Home; at Recep­
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correctly clothed men and women almost speak to you.
Learn how to dress and conduct yourself on any and all
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in colors and materials for the ladies; hints as to footwear,
hats, appropriate combinations, etc., for both sexes.
What to serve your guests at breakfast, lunch or dinner.
How to converse intelligently; how to know when to talk
and when to remain silent; how to make friends and gain
popularity.
A book that will help the most prominent member of so­
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STORIES
PART 2
A wonderful collection of Short Stories for Young and
Old. Stories that will hold your attention from start to fin­
ish. By the most famous colored writer of Short Stories in
America.
Stories of Adventure Stories of Pluck
Stories of Bravery 6tories of Success
Stories of School Days Stories of Great Hen

Illustrating Table Manners

Stories for Father, Mother or the Children.

Funny Stones; Stories that will bring the
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A Book y o u will w a n t — M u s t have in
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Over fifty pages of pleasing pictures taken
from best photographs. A BIG BOOK, con­
taining over 400 pages. The people are much
pleased with this new publication and are
sending thousands of orders to us. Order to­
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Price ONLY $2.50. Write today.
Agents W a n t e d
We are looking for iooo hustlers, men
and women. Our offer will pay you posi­
tively $ 4 to $ 9 per day. One agent made
$21 the first day. Such an oppor­
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AGENTS' S A M P L E showing specimen
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will be mailed to you for 25 cents. It
represents exactly the complete book.
Send 25 cents for agents' outfit to-day.

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Send for free catalog of 160 books

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M A D E . T OY O U RORDER
pants $1.95

NO E X T R A Postage
CHARGES
Prepaid
0 • W E M A K E t h i s special
bend nO offer for 30 d a y s , to

AlOllCV p r o v e
the wonderful
v a l u e , s t y l e a n d FIt o f
Progress t a i l o r i n g . W E will tailor to
your special order, a pair of these
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3
Agents Wanted-^ .™
E V E R Y W E E K , TAKING ORDERS FROM YOUR FRIENDS

AND NEIGHBORS FOR OUR HIGH CLASS TAILORING.

NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.

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MEASURE PANTS—$1.95 U P . FULL DETAILS OF THIS OFFER SENT f r e e .

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GOING FAST!
ACT Q U I C K L Y IF YOU W A N T

ORCHARDVILLE LOTS
a t $29-59
$3.00 DOWN AND $1.50 A MONTH
each

T h i s o f f e r is m e e t i n g w i t h GREAT T h e location of Orchardville is ideal

SUCCESS. People from ALL and e v e r y b o d y w h o has been there so
O V E R T H E C O U N T R Y are tak­ far has expressed himself or herself as
i n g a d v a n t a g e o f it, a n d t h e d e m a n d being H I G H L Y P L E A S E D with every­
thing. That is why the demand for the
for t h e l o t s is I N C R E A S I N G BY
lots is increasing so fast.
LEAPS A N D BOUNDS.
This offer should receive your careful
The lots are size 3 0 x 144 feet each and consideration because it may be just
h a v e plenty of r o o m for a house, g a r ­ what y o u have been l o o k i n g for. You
den, chicken y a r d , etc., b e s i d e s a f e w can get all the details b y simply writing
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on. E a c h lot is s o l d under a M O N E Y c o u p o n b e l o w and sending it to us
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ARENSON REALTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

19 S. La Salle Street C H I C A G O , ILL.
WRITE PLAINLY

ARENSON REALTY DEV'PT CORP.

CHICAGO, ILL. Date. .19*..
Gentlemen:.— _. . . _ , . . .
I would like to receive all the detail! regardlnt your new lot offer, without any obliga­
tion on my part.
Name
.Town and State.
Address
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OUR LATEST CATALOG WILL BE

MAILED TO YOU UPON REQUEST
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Agents Wanted Manufacturing
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Chemist
Consultation and Research, Specialist in Perfumery
Let me solve your prob­
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Address C. D. Campbell, Analytical Chemist,
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Locality.

G O O D P A Y
WANTED AT ONCE
Few live agents! Hustlers! To sell excellent new
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Address Chemical Cosmetic Co., Dept. C, B o x 204,

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rit 8 IaBi 8
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A Selected List of Books

Dealing with the Negro Problem
These prices do not include postage. Postage extra.

Two COLORED WOMEN WITH THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY

FORCES. (Hunton and Johnson) $2.50
T H E H E A R T OF A W O M A N A N D O T H E R P O E M S . (Georgia Douglas
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NORRIS W R I G H T CUNEY. ( M a u d Cuney H a r e ) 1.50
THE SOUL OF J O H N BROWN. (Stephen Graham) 2.00
A NARRATIVE OF T H E NEGRO. (Leila A m o s Pendleton) 1.50
SOULS OF B L A C K F O L K . ( W . E . B. DuBois) 2.00
A CENTURY OF NEGRO MIGRATION. ( C a r t e r G. W o o d s o n ) 1.10
T H E C U R S E OF R A C E PREJUDICE. (James F . Morton) 25
HISTORY OF T H E NEGRO. ( B . G. B r a w l e y ) 2.00
THE NEGRO M I G R A N T I N PITTSBURGH. (Abraham Epstein)... .50
GRANNY M A U M E E AND OTHER P L A Y S FOR A NEGRO THEATRE.
(Ridgely Torrence) 2.25
HALF A MAN. (Mary White Ovington) 1.20
AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY. (William Sinclair) 1.50
MY LIFE ANDWORK. (Bishop Alexander Walters) 1.50
UNSUNG HEROES. (Elizabeth Ross Haynes) 2.50
T H E S H A D O W . (Mary White Ovington) 2.00
JOHN BROWN. ( W . E. B. DuBois) 2.00
NEGRO I N A M E R I C A N HISTORY. (J. W . C r o m w e l l ) 2.00
PRINCE H A L L AND H I S FOLLOWERS. (George W. C r a w f o r d ) . . 1.00
T H E VOICE OF T H E NEGRO. ( R o b e r t T. K e r l i n ) 2.50
NEGRO CULTURE I N W E S T AFRICA. ' G e o r g e W . Ellis) 3.00
T H E NEGRO. ( W . E. B. D U Bois) 90
THE EDUCATION OF T H E NEGRO PRIOR TO 1 8 6 1 . (Carter G.
Woodson) 2.00
T H E NEGRO FACES AMERICA. ( H e r b e r t J. S e l i g m a n n ) 1.75
DARKWATER. ( W .E. B. DuBois) 2.25
P O E M S OF P A U L L A U R E N C E D U N B A R 2.50
AFRO-AMERICAN FOLKSONGS. ( H . E. KrehbieD 2.00
BOOKER T . WASHINGTON. (Emmett J. Scott and Lyman
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IS T H E S E C R E T
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