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- -/ ', t?Veryt>o< / THIS PAPER IS^ f F? DEVOTE!* TO THE I / INTERESTS O * I ) . THE PEOPLE. I VOLT NO. 52 > * v "answers the final summons A Man of Ability, A Greal Churchman, A High Class Christian Gentleman ? ? AN ELOQUENT SPEAKER Funeral services at Morris Browr A. M. E. Church, Charleston, S. C. Remains Laid to Rest , at His Old Home, on ' Edisto Island Bishop William Wesley Beekett was the presiding Bishop oi the African Methodist Episcopa Churches in Mis<aiaeir?r?{ ... JKh/A oiiu 01* ter the death of Bishop W? D ~l._Chappelle last July, was giver the work in South Carolina-ir connectin owith his work n Mississippi. He held conferences ir. both states last fall and had organized plans for an expansior and reorganization of the work at Allen University under the direction, of President Sims. The - news of his death was a shock to ministers?and laymen in the city and to his people, as Bishop Beckett was one of the leading Bishops of his church. ? Bishop Beckett was born or Edisto -Island in this -state ir 1859, received his early training in the public and private schools of Charleston, going later tc Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta. He was at one tim( g Jr. fnlnraVtin TTnitmmii tV!WM QPProt Q y\7 nf miooi/\v.n VI UUOOlUllO UJ the A. M E. Church with headquarters in Bible House, New York; president of Allen Univer eity from 1912 to 1916, and was elected Bishop at Philadelphia ir 1916 and spent his first qua' drenium of service in South Africa. \ As a publie speaker, Bishop Beckett was heard in nearly every state in the Union and ap? peared many-times-before white audiences. . When one has surmounted the ?difficulties, Intrigues and neia\ rious opposition and has won i the aproval of his constituency to the extent that he reaches the - office^ of Bishop in the Africar t Methodist Episcopal Church, he has done well. When he lives b ~ life of service in that office and is benefactor for denomination 1', and the human race, he has done better. Bishop William Wesley Beckett passed through both oi B 4-1^ A0A A /VA A T_T A 4! M i ? L'X oia^ca, xit; ima iiiiiorreL his career" On January 5, 1926 the las1 respect was paid him by Tils col leagues, the bishops, the general officers, presiding elders, pastorf and laymen of his denominatior As well as hosts of friends frorr all sections of the United States - His body was laid in State at Emanuel Church, Charleston Emanuel Church, Summerville fUC . until Monday nightr thenc? it was transported to Morris Brown Church, Charleston, S. C Tuesday morning amidst an ocean of floral offerings, his reirtains were viewed and the greal COTlcourse of people came to witness the last rites and ceremony -^He was the Presiding Bishop of the 8th Episcopal District, which comprises Mississippi. After the demise of Bishop W. D I Chappelle, June 15. 1925. the Bishop's x^ouncil assigned BishI op Beckett to the 7th Episcopal t.Lpiafrict jHe held the first Cottle fercnihe State, the Palmet^^^E??iference, and was preL-?wMk lijunvening at SUmmerElt tBtinuad cm par* ?ix. jy Wins In On ri EIGHTEE ! A GAIN OF TWO L OVER LAST YEA - 1 ' ^ Mississippi Lea?i with 6, Floric "follow* with 3. Two of the 1 2 MOB MURDERS INCLUDE I All of the Victimi were Negro ' The list of Lynchings by t States Found Below 1 New York, Dec. 31,? "The . { A. A. C. P., 69 Fifth Avenue, t : day made public lynching stati t tics for the year, showing mob murders, an increase of ; over the ltf recorded last ye* ' Mississippi led the States wi r 6 lynchings, Florida was secoi with 3 and Georgia third with 1 The Advancement Associate J, announces that it is including j lynchings two mob murders n > included in the figures cmpil r|by Tuskeegee Institute, the t\ -1 lynchings-being-the shooting ^ | death by a mob of 200 people . Jim Evans at Jellico, Kentucl r'on April 13, and the shooting - death by police and citizens *- Odum Dunlap in Haines Cll 1 Florida, on December 20. Two of the 18 of the mob vi tims, were burned to death. A >- of the victims were Negroes. T1 ] list of lynchings-by States ! 13i Georgia, 2; Kentucky, 1; Lo > isiana, 1 Mississippi- fit Missoir tl; Utah, 1; Virginia, 1. i ^^_____ s NEGRO OUTLOOK HOPE t' FUL... i a t " I Surveying the passing ye; i and forecasting the immedia ! future, the Associated Negi \ Press of Chicago, affiliated wil II the radical wing of racial jou -"halisin, concludes upon a hupef ijnote: "After all, in the de< *j recesses, the heart of Amerii j eats right." Progress, howev l "does not just happen," it r ! minds; " 'pursuit of happiness' . must be constant, courageous, i ' telligent. r~ "Hegro_ crime has been co: J sidered from a more imparti j viewpoint in recent years thf . was formerly the case. ... I: cessa-nt effort, North and Sout " has practically done away wit ' the big headlines, because < r race; and all criminals, regan > less of race, are treated alike Inat all criminals, regardle: of race," shall be "treated alike [ is rather the substance of thin* ^ hopep for than accomplish f fact in the Southeastern state The trend is toward that cond ' encouraging, but complete par ty is not yet realized and no gor . can come of saying so. Con . munity of effort among the we disported of all gfoupa towar * ; v \ ' irSubseripticfi folttu r COLUMBIA. S. C.. SATCI Hfc S J mm ;n lynchi N. A. A. C.I ^ TRIAL DATE " N. A. A. L. P. ~~~ fORYEART925 T> ? Reports the Most Successful __ Year in the History of the w o w Association MORE ACTIVITY SHOWN N. , ' o- Segregation made National Issue ls~ Being Fought on Many 18 Fronts r 2 ... irth New York, Dec- 31?The N. A. nd A. C. P., 69 Fifth Ave., today is9 1 - = - A ' ciut;u <1 summary 01 us Annual on Report for the year 1925, showas ing the most successful effort in ot the entire history of the Assoed fiat ion. The summary stresses vo the fact that Segregation has In.been niada national ioouo eon of fronting the entire American <y people, and that colored RfiiQ^le to throughout the United States of have been united .in this fight as y, in no other except the nght to ,end lynching, c- j The N. A. A. C. Report dpals til with the following subjects:1 QonrrAornf imi ??O HTU^ ? ?[ 1 LIUH , l*- me wniie is | Primary" fight in Texas and otha, Ter caifcs of DlsertTfTlnation-, 3. u- Legal Defense; 4. Reintroduction ri, of a rovised-Byer- Anti-Lynching r i Bill in Congress; 5. Release of | 24th Infantrymen; 6>JPublici. !ty and Branch Organization; 7. Ku Klux Klan and miscelleneous. 1. Segregation. During the ir ; , issue of residential and other sete gregation, believing it to be per^ haps- the most important issue with which colored Americans r I _i jpTave to deal. "Accordingly a segregation case arising in Washington, where white property! e owners convenanted not to sell i e_ nor permit sale of their proper-J ? ty to colored people has been carn ried before the- U. S. Supreme* Court where it wiH be argued n. early in January. Another case, j aj arising in Louisiana, will also be J in carried before the Supreme] n-' Court and cases have been! h, fought in' the following cities ;h Los Angeles and Oakland, Cali3f fornia; Denver, Baltimore, De-j d- troit, St.. Louis, Brooklyn, N. Y.,j ." Staten Island, N. Y., where Saovj 3s uel A- Browne, colored postman' was hacked up in standing his! ??,ground against efforts to oust id him from his home and is now s ; suing his wfyite neighbor^ for li- $100,000; Cleveland, Pittsburgh, i- folk, Va. In Cleveland, by court >d action the Board of Education of Shaker Ileights was compelled ^1 to abandon the exclusion of eold ored ohfldlren from their school. | > Continued on page 8. H?v: ' ' ? .'v-;'1. , *';n ~ > ~~~~ r " " i" tW ' **. I ' .' -* Ml* ? *DAY7 JANUARY 9,1926 ITT ilKRn ft1 NG S I N U. i \ FUND NOV : POSTPONED < ON EXTENDED SPEAKING TOUR B '. " . ??- . . Dr. and Mrs. Sweet and* Walter White, to Deliver Addresses _J for Defense Fund ' TO VISIT FIVE LARGE CITIES T i s , , I Philadelphia, Baltimore, * Washington, Pittsburgh and Cleveland i. " a ; th Dr. and Mrs. Ossian H. Sweet Ai j released on bail pending retrial hi of their case in Detroit, and Wal- I ter White, Assistant Secretary of m ,the N. A. A. C. P., are "to deliver di (addresses in five larirp pifma frJr'. 0? v.WiVO) VV , \Ji stimulate interest in fhe Legal is< 'Defense fui\d being raised by the ca Ikr a - a p ? 1 * , j I Meetings have been arranged; in by theN.A.A.C.P.andcooperating m? groups ,as follows: Jan. 5, Phila-lBc Jdelphia; 6, Baltimore; 7, Wash-jc. ington in the Metropolitan A. M.'&y |E. Church under the auspices of cli the colored women of Washing- fo ton; 8, Pittsburgh; and Jan^lO, $1 Cleveland^ ~ Ci T?ptriol nn'll U ^ _ !- '1 ?. ...ii nut, wk'Ji m tne.ty ! early January, as?originally 'planned. Date for opening of Dr the second tria-1 has not yet been fixed by the Court. p FEW LYNCHINGS IN YEAR, < WITH NONE IN SOUTH CAROLINA ' 1 Tuskeegee Institute, Ala., Dec. I bia .31?There were 16 lynchings du'ad( ^ing 1925, according to records i .kept by Tuskeegee Institute.'to Tiere. This number ranks with dex the numbe~r 16 for 1924 as the smallesF number of persons lu lynched in an V VPQl- oinnfl e _ J VM1 0?11V/C 1<IIC,I C" cord tf lynchings have been kept at is 17 less than the number 3 for j 1923, and 41 less than the num- nis ber 57 for 1922. Two^of the vie-t*h* tims were insane. Three others |Co' "had been formally released by ^ the courts. 10 of the personsj j lynchedr were taken from the' afj( hands of the law, 2 from jails'.Ar onrl 8 - ! ?... v. xiuiii uuiLci a uI 1116 iSW dlC outside of the jails. Two of those iter lynched were burned at the stake ser tor put? !{}t?9p 0} }pd SBAV 9U0 pUH j body burtied. ma There were 39 instances in tra which officers of the law preven- set ted lynchings, 7 of these were tn in Northern Slates and 32 In Southern Stages. In 26 of the per ^ , . yes cases the prisoners were rertiov- bro ed or the guards augmented or jy other precautions taken. In 13 the other instances, armed force was uht used to repel the would be lynchers. In 3 instances during the year persons charged with being ^ connected with lynching mobs the Continued jift page 8. 7ir , izurim m V lilO'"U11 L IQar Offer o pis ifFR I.YI >.1N 1B25[' J $55,761,59 g :hecks are still coming in ' G loston sends $2,000, Los Angeles $1,000. Other Cities ** Responded Also HE COUNTRY AROUSED he Figures Above Include $15,>00 due by Garland Fund and $ 1,000 by J. Rosenwald jn tc New York, Dec. 31?The Leg- Mi Defense Fund being raised by re' leNational Association for the dvancement of Colored People, he is reached the suiruaf $55,761. j0^ >9 according to anouncement ade to-day, this figure inclu-| ng $15,000 now due from the P? arland Fund and $1,000 prom-,St! 2d by Julius Rosenwald of Chigo. . - . an Jjuiye wji'tint'glftd 10 the tundP01 clu'de $2,000 raised in a mass' ^ eeting under he auspices of the )ston Branch of the N. A. A. jmi P. and a check for $1,000 sent as Los Angeles.?Other gifts in- ?1 ide: St. Louis, $257.36; Nor- h? lk, Va., $400; Elmira, N. Y? fac 00; New Orleans, $100; ^and -cal larles W. Ray of Jefferson Ci- th( Texas, (contributings) $218. ?' - _ _ ; ? Mi t. J. C. WHITE SPEAKS tUI AT BARNWELL, S. C. Pm sh< elivers Wonderful Oration. Other the Speakers, Hon. W. S. Dixon and brj Banker H. C. Calhoimpfwhite) onr 3arnwell, Jan. 1?Dr. J. C. White, dor of ZionvBaptist Church Colum-' sin , S. C., delivered the Emancipation 4 Iress at Barnwellrfh-C. Ml who know Dr. White, know him'jje] be a born orator, community buil-' ', great historian and in short an mo 1 round man."" He has the ability goi sway crowds, and he always swaya ttTU m in the right direction; for he OTg rs the right thing in the right way,?c^]] the right place and the riffrht time. \fter the parade with music fur- ^le hed by the band from Orangeburg, all y people were assembled in the iftlg jrt House of Barnwell, whose ca- Log :ity-held less than one third se who desired to ente^. Ion. W. S. Dixonmade the welcome tell Iress, after which Rev. A. C. L.'tioi bouin an A. B. graduate of Bene-ag]< t College and progressive minis- g|.? of Barnwell, introduced and Prc*ii , ited Dr. J. C Whito tho stri ^fter Dr. White's introductory re-J ma rks, he began with history and ced it from 1607, the first English 1 < tlement at Jamestown, Va., up un-i 1863, otrr freedom. He reminded' audicnee that the white man was1*-*-* manently settled here but twelve / irs before the Negro, for they were ught over in 1619. There were onabont. twenty hrought, first; hnt y oentinued to come and populate il there are about 15,000,000 Ne>es now. Other races have come anc I sojaoumed for a short time, but wh Negro has remained. a: tmong the great characters that speaker mentioned and from whom 132 Continued on page. p. 11. k a a A ' | lypUfcBMtarr.- r. . -i. *. . ... "* . .; .r v . ? r sw I //SUBSCRIBE ANI^ ' II ADVERTISE?Cur-# I U rent. Social arid Gen- I J jral New. || ,4 *' 111 ~ w- J 6c A COPS. IS iT/iiniin WJUNb VCQUITTED ^ THEN LYNCHED cports ?ecm to Indicate thai the State is ^Aroused as Never Before OVERNOR POWERLESS c, willi Bar Association will ask Legislature for Power to Remove'Sheriffs In a letter to James Weldoij . hnson, Secretary of the N. A. C. P.,- Dr. W- W. Alexandpr. rector of the Commission on terracial Cooperation in Atlant, reports that the State of ississippi is aroused over the cent lynching, of Lindsay Colein, a Negro, immediately after had bfeen acquitted of a charge n^utdfir^by a jury in Clarksle. >. . ; "... Dr. Alexander writes that "rerts seem to indicate that the ate is aroused 03 never before. The Governor is _ determined d, I think, has sufficient suprt tU Write k new chnntpr in x ississippi history. You may quite"sure that we will keep as ich pressure on'the situation > possible. " The Governor of Mississippi is very little authority. In it, none except the power to L out the militia-.?He, -with ; support of the Bar Associa . ^ienr-and other influences"~of ssissippi, will ask the legfslae at its opening session to emver the Governor to remove ;rriffs, and give him other autrity that will enable him to ng real pressure on the local nmunity. I think such legision has a good chance of pasg: . - The campaign of education 1 go on in Mississippi. Mrs. nderson of my staff will spend st of the month of January ' ng from community to comnlty In the State speaking ana anizing the women, specifily against: motr action. Mr. azer of my staff, will go into the collecres flnd rnnnv rvf +V>a h schools' for the same pure\ , Alexanders letter was writi from the N. A. A. C." P:ing what the people of the >te intended to do about the jst lynching in view of the ong pronouncement recently de by the Bar Association of ? ~ ?J. ?' * ' rt^rtuiML moD violence I mob murder. IT HOME TO PRACTICE v MEDICINE Xr.O- "JT."Champion,"a" gradu- , of AtfenUniv., Lincoln Univ./ 1 Meparry Medical College; o is viow practicing in Clin, S. (a will open his office at 17 Assembly Street January