The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, January 16, 1926, Image 1
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PLANS FOR ~ ^
_ BETTER METHODS
Th> Mwting was Cempoied of
..' the Leading Educators of Negro
Schools and Colleges
L. I. DEGREE DISCONTINUED
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The ^Special Report for this
Meeting wa? Prepared by
Dean F. C. Redfern
A
Orangeburg, Jan- 10.;?In a
meetincr in State rnlleore vesfor
day leadirffc educators of tfegro
colleges and high' shcools
attempted lb work out plans by
which the school may have a
more uniform "method of college
entrance and build their courses
of study so that their graduates
the accredited colleges for Negroes.,.
For some years the five
leading colleges for Negroes
have granted the L. I. degree to
normal graduates and upon this
they have been permitted to
teach in the public schools without
examination. The heads of
these schools desire this degree
_ discontinued ?nd have all graduates
cover two years work at
t least above high schools before
they are issued a diploma and
will not issue the L. I-degree
after 1926 ats before. ___
\ The conference agreed to
Imake some suggestions as to
what i\- pupil should have covered
before he is given college entrance
and in. that asked {he
^principals of Negro high schools
to cooperate as far as practicable.
So far as college entrance
to Allen University, Benedict
college, Claflin university, Morris
college and State college,.,the
~ courses agreed upon in the con-ference
are mandatory and will
take effect next year. The spewKtnTl
woe tVio onnl on^ cir-i J vi -
- .?* uivM nuk) niv/ ovui anu opu lb
of the meeting, was prepared by
D'e&n Frederick C. Redfern, of
Benedict college, Dean H. Pear
son, Claflin; Dean Hale B. Thomp
son, .of Allen, and 6- E. Blanton
of Voorhees. The text of the
report was presented by ; J)r.
" Redfern. -
all phases by the -members of
the coliTerence, which was presided
over by President Winkin?
son, of State college. The following
is the special report considered
yesterday in the rrieet
ing and adopted withu mandatory
. request as it effects the five
leading Negro colleges in the
state:?
The committee recommends:
First: The (fprmulation of
- the) following defintfe rules for
graduation from high school and
entrance to college courses in
general on a-minimal academic
requirement. , _r v
~ That 16 uriTTs heHreqiTired for
graduation from high school
with permission to enter college
on 15 units or with only one
condition. For a pupil of norto
constitute one-fourth of a
year's work and to require n riefinite
amount and quality of
work in each subject. In time
it requires a minimum of 36
weeks with five recitations per
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^ vocational subjects and laboraContinued
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EDUCAT
PRIZE GIV
ARTHUR H;
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SEGREGATION
WAS HIS THEME
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1,500 HA|L ATTACK ON
RACE ISOLATION
Mixed Audience Hears Hays
Call Segregation *a Street
of Hate a Main Street
Death.'
ASSAILS DETROIT MOB CASE
Praises Dr* Sweet for Defense of
Home?Negro Physician -Speaks
At Mass Meeting
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Now York, Jan. 4, An audience
of mone than 1,500 whites
and Negroes applauded yesterday
an attack on radical segregation
in 4he residential areas of J
large American cities maae Dy
Arthur Garfield Hays, who, addressing
the annual mass'^meeting
of the National Association
for the Advancement of Goloted
People, at Mt. Olivet Baptist
Church, 120th and Lenox Ave.,
declared that "the logical outH
come of separation into small
groups by race or religion would
be a street of" bigotry, a street
of hate and a main street of
death.'}
Mr^:Hays is associated with
Clarence Daiiuw, Ghicago Law-j
- yeVr in Jth& defense of Dr. Os-!
sian Sweet. Mrs. TSweet and 9
! other Negro defendants charged
I with first degree murder in connectiom-with-the
death of~one_of l
j a mob -which surrounded Dr.
I Sweet's home in. Detroit last j
September. The?jury recently
| . disagreed in the Sweet case
and it will be re-tried early this
year.
Dr. and Mrs. Sweet sat on the j
platform while their defense
counsel ^praised their courage in'
i defending their, home and de-;
jplored the 'Spirit of Intolerance
! which caused the incident. Dr.
and Mrs. Sweet, who are at liberty
on bail, received permission
i to leave the State tb attend the j
'meeting by the Michigan Court
tion. Their appearance on the
platform brought prolonged applause.
Discussing the Sweet caseTf
jMr. Hays declared that it hinged
about the issue ot residential se- _
gregation in America. It was a
fight, he asserted, "to preserve,
the fundamental spirit of the
Constitution."
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Keterrrag 'to tne iriai, ivir. i
Hey& said^he Negroes whoLwere j
called to the witness stand weje
"quiat, intelligent and direct." J
"A" Tipple Uf applause greeted his*
st&tement that the prosecution j
in seeking to prove that no one!
was in the neighborhood of the
Sweet home when the riot occured,
called seventy witnesses
to the stand, all of whom testified
that they were-pr esent^
Dr. Sweet, a young -Doctor,
sal impassively as the attorney j
who figured prominently in the
Scones trial told of his efforts to
defend his home and the suKse-.
I quent arraignment of himself
I his wife and nine friends on a
charge of first degree murder.
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* COLUMBIA, S. C., SATUR1
rEN FOR S,
VYES SPEAK
- ?-are -utuiaily ?i mere:- ?
ed in the part the colored people
themselves- have played in raising
this money. Thirty thousand
of the fifty, thousand dollars
raised whi?h was given by
the colored people, mostly from
the Branches, of the N. A. A. C.
P-^was a small amount; but it
is; thp largnst fltrmnnt <? ". r raised
hy the colored people for'a
similar-cause.?It' will possibly
mean more to us as a group
than anything that has happened
to us in a half century. It
shows that we are beginning to
think.-. We are beginning to realize
-'-that--which'is worth having,
is worth fighting for. It
teaches one of the fundamental
Taws of the universe, that we
get by giving.
Say what "we. will, but thpse
who study the sign of the
times, see and know that, there
is, a concerted movement backed
by the Ku Klux Klan to take
from the Negro every right of
a citizen" in this country. Huge
sums of money are being spent
to this end. It is foolish to sit
idly by and say "it won't amount"
to 'anything." The foe must
be met; and dollars backed by
a determTnatiort"t<y fight is the
most powerful weapon.
Locally we have had a taste'.
of the results of the insidious
prnpagaprtaof the Ktr>n as maiT
ifested in residential segregation.
We need the cooperation
of?alh to figfrt-JL Just three
cents each from a population of,
100,000 will enable the local
branch to do the job in fine1
styleTI.
(From The Infer-State Tattler,
New York City. Dec. 18. 1925.)
SUPPORT THE SWtfF.T DF,-.
4 FENSE^ftUND. Last
week we wrote an edi-(
torial the caption of which was
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X 1UUU yj L iiv,n X VI IV. X iiiki
week we have an opportunity
to amplify our stand. We speak
oftheNaiional Association for,
the" AtTv&ncement of Colored
People, with headquarters at
Fifth Avenue, and its splendid,
work in connection with the_
Sweet,case in Detroit. The mas-',
terly handling of .that ease hasJ
already been, heralded in the
press of the country. That it ^
:er--Ev1llybady^
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RICHLANDCO
DEFENSE FUND
THE WEEK'S EDITORIAL:
COLQRJ2D PRESS.
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(From The St. Louis, Mo-, Ar\
gus,. Jan. 1, 1926.) ;
A HOPEFUL SIGN.
"Fifty thousand dollars have
been raised by the National Association
for the Advancement!
of Colored People to be known
as a "defense fund." This, to
tror mind, is a mont hopeful oign
thatjthe colored people and the
right thinking white people of
the nation art? determined 1 to
make a fight, using all legal and
legitimate means to secure for
the-Negro the exercise -of the
common rights of citizenship
which other groups enjoy, as a
matter of course.
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Contest?Rea<
tto it
JAY JANUARY 10, 1926.
vrcHOL
:s TO MIXED
UNTYTEACHi
REACHES $65,000'
N. A. A. C. P. GETS
READY RESPONSE j
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The Garland Fund at its Regular
Meeting, Jan. 6, Received
Mr. Johnson's Report -t*]
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GIVES ,$6,552.79' MORE'
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The Af sociation will be Ahle_to^
?see the Second Trial of the?T,
Sweet Case go Though
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New York, Jan. 8?Annojincer.
ment was made to-day by Ja?mes .
WOIAmVI" ' el"
.. V?.I..0U11, oeereiary oi |
the N. A. A. C. P. thr.-t the goal (
of .$65,000 for a Defense Fund i
to help secure legal rights of (
colored people' had been reached j
and passed. To noon today there <
had been received at the Nr-tion- v
Office of ther N.A.A. C. P., a total
of S37~475.73-to which is ]
added, the original ^contribution j
from th<T~American Fund for t
Public Service (the" Garland
"Fundi?nf?35000?rf KiWi?Hrfnm.
-r -r-j - ? ? .? 4*iv?l wi V,
the- cash actually received to 42, t
475.73. ' . - J- '\
The- GarkWicl Fund at its re- j
gulw meeting-on January 6 re- 5
ccived Johnson's report and ]
voted not' only to pay over to ^
the Nt'A. A.C.P. the $15.000 4t r
hacT originally agreed to, pay if |
the Association' should raise 30, (
000 dollars but an additional .
sum of $6,552.79. To the total {
is to be added an additional ^
check for $1,000 from Julius j
Ros'onwald which he agreed to y
give-on the rasing of tho second a
$2.-1,000. by the" A ss^c ia tion ?! c
The full accounting^-t-h^rtrfbFF'j
^ . 'f
Total contributions received j
at National ofTieo nf tho N"- a a -r
C. P. to noon. Jan. 8, IflSfi f
475,73.. ' ' -h
Original contribution from the j.
the raisinggu?* hrdl shrd shr ss
vice S5.000.00. ' "* r
Additional contribution from c
the American Fund contingent ^
on the raising pf S3Q.QQ.Q SI5.- ,
00000. " ~ -J ~ !
Further additional contribu- r
tion from the American Fund t
qo mo TO
Contribution from Mr. Rosen- c
wald contingent' upon raising ,
the second $24,000.00 $1,000.00. t
Total S65.028.52.
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Amount?raised by Detroit t
Branch of the N. A. A. C< P. for j
the Sweet Case and disbursed ,
locally $6.137.64.
Grind To?kl $7_Lifi6.i6 (
"For thedfirstJtime in the seventeen
years that the N. A. A.
C. P- has been Tn existence," Mr. f
Johnson said in making these j
figures public, "do we have any- 0
where nearly adequate funds ^
with which t6^render aid in the
cases which constantly pour in ]
upon us. With the funds so j
generously contributted in response
to our appeal We will be ,
-ablo-ta-see - the sprond trial of:_y
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the Sweet Case through, to pay']
the cost of the Segregation Case (
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flENNIAtr
AUDIENCE"
ERS TO MEET..
SESSIONS TO BE
AT COURT HOUSE'
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Richland County Negro Teachers
Association to Meet- in Ed
Columbia, January 23rd 1
ENROLLMENT FEE ONLY $1
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The Plan is to Enroll 100 per jeg
cent of Richland Teachers ^
'Y in the State and County [of
T?? ?pff
"vti lintnrrtnv iTnnmrj PA ' mi
wery teacher iirthe Negro pub-' P.,
ic Schools of Richland-County int
s invited to.attend the regular cia
neeting of the Riehl&nd Associa--pri
ion which Willi?be held in the tio
bounty Court House. The pro- P.
tram for the meeting \vi44-be a rac
ieviation from the regular.pne bei
'ormerly outlined by the pro- Le;
jram committee. This is. a day $2J
:et apart for the demonstration the
md will be red letter, day in -. ]
Richland County. The annual slo
oil ci -11 wil be conducted by Hon. for
T. differ Eleazer er his office ye*
representative and those ab- car
^entT~fro mthe meeting will be Inc
o recorded in the office of the for
Ccur.tv Superintendent unless rac
hey aswenr by proxy. To an-j T1
;wer by proX$r4s-4o^send_^our_jjnj
jonar registration fee-fop Coup?9 (
y and State and a letter of ex-^n
iliination. "/ -fef
There' will be ^tjvo^rfieetings coli
his "month-* with the Richland 0f
\ssocir.'tion?one Saturday for Ph:
he demonstration meeting and car
the other the fifth Saturday, p^.
ranuary 30th at which time the p0i
crular program ot recitations
ihd - instructions by teachers in yy
harge of the snbiacts-wifrdbc-^
iacT January 30th, Miss Kit? ^y
>f Eenedict College will teach (jCT
Primary Arithmetic, and Mrs. 1 ^
D. Saxon will teach Geogra- are
>hy, concluding the series she par
uts-Hpen giving this term in the fou
Association. !jn
Thp lpQrlintr gnpnVgr n? fVio - - -
x ; ~ ^ 1\K
necting .in the Court House next
Saturday will be Dr. R. S. Wil:inson
of State College. The1
2 :GO o'clock with?the annual?^
oil call/ Richland County j .
.1 :-hprq 'u/ill Viqvp an nppnrtim-j
Saturday.-to show the .
hiplNateident and school offi?ialsLjtf
the publis schools of *
he County -j-itst how loyal they af
ire r.'iid the fidelity they have in
he work b^r attending this
ng 100 per cent strong- No pro- ^ri
trcssive teacher will be absent sc^
' nf
iext Saturday. The plan is to .
nrrdl-100 per cent of Richland; (^s
,1, iL. Pi-I- J e~s ?' SfV
uitciitMa in tut; ciaie aim oouniy,
Associations. The enrollment! J
ee is only one dollar. There are !.y
60 terx'hers in the Negro schools s^a
tf the County not including those P*1
and Allen '-University. These an<
160 teachers are asked to be ei
^resent when the roll is called. wo
. Through the kindness of the ma
ississtant secretary of. the Ch^m ra
rer trf-Commerce, Prof.A. M. A. Br
Myers was able to secure the adi
^ourt House for the speaking, in
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Lee Attorneys of Both Cuafcta?'
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For Slogans ?
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itor of Afro-American Heads
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Boston, M&ss., Jan. 10^1928.
relinquishment of the privie.
of donating the 2nd prize
the part of Hon. W, B. Lcwb,
Boston, to E. Ceruti, of Los
ngeles, eminent race lawyer
il Pres. orrEocal JN. A. A. C- ?
the natiop-wide scope and; '
erest is er'Hanred for the Deration
of Independence slogan
ze contest offered by the NanaL
Equal Rights League. E.
Pop 1 O ?YV in T> - A
Ulllillf \J l UU?5 IU1I, tflll 1II C3T1 t * . ?
e lawyer and executive mem
of the local -Equal Rights'
ague donates the 1st prize_cof
5.00 in gold antf Mr. Ceruti
> 2nd-pr-izo of $10.00 in goldPrizes
are. for most effective
gans of less than 15 words
contending for righfs.Jn this
ir"1926 &3 the 150th,Apnivery
year of the Declaration of.
lependence,; which . declared _
equality, etc., and which the
e helped make possible,
he slogans must, reach the Na
nal Fgnal Rightn Lerguc at ??
kmrhilb by Feb. 1st, the will- ?
g slogans to be made known
ore Feb; 12 for Douglass-Lin- ?
a Day meetings. The judges
slogans are Editor Carl MurV
of Baltimore Afro-Ameri
i. Editor E. W. Rhodes, of the^
iladelphia Tribune, Rev. J; G. \
tinson. Editor of the A- M. E.
urch Quarterly Review. Dr
A. Sinclair of phHMelphin ioral
pre?idert and Rev, B.
Swain, of Boston, vjce-presiit,
at-large, of the'League. ^?r_
To make clear what slogans
, the League publishes this
nple?"Race which helped^ - ?r
ind Independence for nation
1776 demands equal rights in
167" ATI our readers are - .
re dio send in slogans at once.
QE.-W. H HILYABD?QF
REWER NORMAL VISITS
THE CITY.
Jrofessor W. IE Hilyard;
ncipal of Brewer Normal
school, Greenwood, spent
t Friday night in the city
h friends. He was enroute
the-educational reference in, ^
mgeburg "wh^re proipinent
100I men from different parts
the State met to Crcvvas and
cuss some of the perplexing
100I problems.
Professor Hilyard has the on*
accredited high school in tHe
,te it is said. His science de"tments
is as well equipped as
Y of the five leading colleges^
1 he has Employed lire teacti-s
most of whom are men and r
men with the hachellor and
tster's degree from the best
ted colleges in the country.
Bwor Normal pupils have been " - .
mitted to The freshman class
the accredited colleges with
t question. ~ ?'r M
liars?Uet busy- -Jj
' i'ri r^.iiSl