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VOL. II.?NO. 24.
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FEDERATION OF
COLORED WOMEN
South Carolina Federation Of
Colored Women's Clubs Concludes
Three Day Meeting?
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AT P. WIIEATLEY CENTER
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The Club Went On Record As
Being Against All Race
Discriminations, Etc.
_yMcGhee
News Service.
Greenville*-June 19?Concluding a
three-day meetnig here Friday after
noon, the South Carolina Federation
ot Colored. Women's Clubs went on
record as being agalhst__all racial
discrimination, ready to assist in tl^e
uplift of the underprivileged girl, advocates
of "Bettet Homes," in every
Negro community, and in the Health
Campaign to better sanitary condi
tions in every Negro settlement.
If there are any not acquainted with
the workings of this organization
they should have attended this meet
ing. In all the addresses delivered they
would have heard of the desire for the
advancement of the Negro along all
lines and in the reports rendered they
would have noted the untiring efforts
" of each individual Club to assist the
poor and needy. Many are sacrificing
to.see that the building of a Home for
ized. J?
The Phyllis Whoatloy Center^ a large
spacious building, and probably the
only community center in South
" - CarolfTTU"rof >4ts kind to~ serve our
? race, was the heady.arters for the Conference.
Here all the meetings, business
sessions, and-general discussions
ing arid servTng, all delegates were
given meia mia-day meals here. Mrs,
Carrie W: Thompson with her assistants
saw to it that every delegate
went pleased in both body and*niind.
At the first session it was noted that
i all present were there for business and
* ready to carry out-a- full- program,
- After a reading of the minutes of the
* last Annual session by Mrs. Allonia
f Townsend Frederick, recording seL
cretary, standing committees wfre apV
pointed by the President, Mrs. Marion
^ B. Wilkinson. Then we heard the
\^. Club reports. Three.cities in , their
financial reports vljere outstanding.
The total money raised by eight alive
nillVlfl rtf rVio rloctAn ? ^-t
.voiuu uuniiK tne year
was near seventeen hundred dollars,
The Sunlight Club of Orangeburg
with thirty five active members was
second with a report of moro than
thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.
Many other good reports for Clubs
all- over the State gave evidence ol
much sacrifice and unselfishness. Special
mention was made of the Boolei
V plan that is a Club had planted, work.
ed, ancT picked an acre of cotton, sold
' it and established a rural community
Grocery store, now the profits arc
placed to the credit of ftie Club treasury.
Many other unique plans were
menHioned by which Clubs might
raise money to meet their needs.
The District Vice-Presidents in making
their repbrts emphasized the need
of reaching more rural women and
having them organize. Mrs. Martir
?Mflhnfao \Tl~~ P ?i - ? i.L?^
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rangeburg District spoke of the inter
est and success she had?in getting
the Federation idea to the rural women-,
of her district. Mrs. M. O.
______JL?jvy^-/Vice-President of the Pee Det
' di<*trict mentioned one case where the
men of a certain community refused
to allow the women to organize. Ir
discussing the reports of these districts
Vice-Presidents it was the opinion
of the body to doi4>le theii
, efforts ni carying the Federation gospel
to the rural, districts
B. E. Mays, principal speaker of th<
Continued on page 8.
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"WHITE F
DECLARES
! POEMS, WRITINGS
P A M PH LETS
. Collection of?Books,?Pictures Illustrating
Contribution To
. American Culture
. A BARE COLLECTION =
Editions of Poems >nf Phviiio
" Wheat ley, And a Poem In Her
? Own Handwriting
New York.^June 1&?The N. A. A.
C. P. is informed that the Newark
Public Library is showing during the
months of June and July, a collection
of books, pamphlets, pictures and playbills
illustrating the Negro's contributions
to American culture.? Most of the
material shbwn has been lent for
the purpose by Eugene Gregory, Newark
lawyer.
Among the exhibits are editions of
the poems of Phyllis Wheatley inclu!
manuscripts of the poems of Paul
Lawrence Dunbar, books, letters and |
autographs of Frederick Douglass, anth
letters from slavery and Civil War
days. Among contemporary colored
1 writers represented in the exhibition
are Matthew Henson, the late Bookec,:
" T. Washington, Countee Cullen, Langston
Hughes, Claude McKay, Jessie
Poiicnt + **T rry r* r-*
t uuasv, ? * unci w line, w. Hi. B. DU
1 Bois, Jean Tobmer and James Weldon
A feature of the exhibition are
signed State papers of the .Haitian
liberator, Toussaint L'Ouverture.
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! N. A. A~C. P. LEGAL-COMMITTEE
1 MEETS ON SEGREGATION
r ? * r * ' - DECISION
1 New York, June 18?The National
' Legal Committee of the National Association
for the Advancement of
1 Colored People, has held a meeting,
! to discuss further steps in the segre!
gation fight) following the U. S. Supreme
Court's decision in the Curtis
' Segregation Case in Washington, D.
^-Cr The meeting was held in the of
fices of Louis Marshall, 120 Broadw.ay.
and besides Mr. Marshall tjiere were
'[chairman "Of the Committee; James "
| A. Cobb of Washington, Herbert K.
11 Stockton and James Weldon Johnson,
l Secretary of the N. A. A. C. P.
Because of the fact that the Su'
^ preme Court did not pass upon the
-jmerits of the case but declared itself
^ I to be without jurisdiction, the Cottt-"
mittaa daqidod to taltc up anothei case
' as soon as it mayHbe^possible that will
"j force a conclusive opinion upon the
' fundamental questions involved.
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DRAWINGS OF COLORED ARTIST
I TO ILLUSTRATE VAN VECHTEN'S
II
BUUh 1
by Aaron Douglass, young colored
painter and "draftsman now on the
staff of The Crisis, are to be used as
illustrations for Carl Van Vechten's
forthcoming novel, "Nigger Heaven,"
, the scene of which is laid in Harlem,
j Messrs. Alfred A. Knopr, Incs, who
are publishing the book, further informs
the N. A. A. C. P. that the two
drawings of.-Mr. Douglass are to be
used in all of the advertising of the
book. The publishers are so pleased
with -Mr. Douglass' work that they
> plan to use in future other work' by
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COLOMBIA, S. C., SAT
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R1MARY"
PROHIBITK
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COLORED CITIZENS Fl
0 ARE APPOINTED
Mayor?Walker of?New?York^ -i
Appoints A Number of Colored
Members For Committee
U*AC MC1I DPDOUIll nt? rr><\ 1
iTiLjiTiAJuivonir ur ojiu J
Duty nf Committee Is To See i
After General Needs Of This
Growing Metropolis
Mayor Walker of New York City
has apointed a number of prominent f
New York colored citizens members I
of a Committee of SUM) who will help f
the officials of-the City of New-York f
in discovering and planning to meet t
the needs of the growing metropolis, r
The ^colored members of the Mayor's ?
Committee are: James Weldon John- I
son, Secretary of the National Asso- t
ciation for the Advancement of Col- c
ored People; Dr. W. E. Du Bois, x
Editor of the.Crisis.; Eugene Kinckle v
Jones, Secretary of the Urban League; ; t
John E. Narl, of the firm of Nail and a
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luinypj vr. .uouis x. wrignt. ii'erdi-; c
and Q.- Morton, Civil Service Cost-1.1
missicnar; and Lentar A. Walton [ jour- *
nalist. . . - s
- Among TlTe duties of the Committee ^
will be to report on housing and
ing, port facilities, traffic regulation, ?
sanitation;' highways and bridges, l
parks and playgrounds and new sour- e
qqs of municipal reyftnilfi. -I
The Committee" comprises many of c
the outstanding persons in New Yprk f
civic and social life, including bank
presidents and industrial leaders, ju- r
rists, educators, welfare workers, en-..-v
-gingers and representatives of all f
walks of life. Among the prominent
members of the Committee are!"~the T
Presidents of New York and Columbia"~
Universities, the Director of the Me- 1
tropplitan Museum of Art, the Direc- F
tor of Rockfeller Institute for Medi- t
cal Research, the Presidents of the '
Nl Y. Life Insurance Co., of the N. Y.
Times, of the Herald-Tribune, of the s|
Parks and Playgrounds Association, F
etc.' ? . a
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WJMMER, SCHOOL TEACHERS AT '
A. & T. COLLEGE HEAR NOTED ~
ARTIST
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Ernestine Jessie Covington Appears
In Recital j
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Greensboty N. C., June 23?Before i
an appreciative audience-m the auditorium
of Dudley Holl, Miss Erneatine ?
Jessie Covfngtrm, twice recipient of .
the Julliard Fellowahin, appeared in
a piano recital. . .
The--noted artist delighted her au- v
dience and fully sustained the repu- v
tation as a pianist which was responsible
for the awarding of the $2,000 r
feljowship. Miss Ernestine Jessie j
Covincrton is a crraduate nf thp r.??
sity and since graduation has enjoyed ?
wide experience as a. concert artist. v
The recital offered a varied program
consisting of selection? from t
famous composers, among whom were h
Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninoff,
and Liszt.. "Sonato," by r
Beethoven, "Etude in E Minor," and r
"Rigoletto Paraphrase," by Liszt re- *
ceived a good bit of ftpphrose^
Miss Covington was assisted by {
Professor Richard B. Harrison who
treated the audience with a reading, a
and by Mrs. N. W. Cherry who sang
j4 Slave Song," by Del Riego.
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LLECTIOIN
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n Sur\
sir Rights^
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URDAY, JUNE 26, 1926.
CASE TC
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NT. A. A. C P. HOLDS
MASS MEETING
Horcy, In Mass jbtotiiig,-IJrges
Race To Up it e For Citizenship
Rights
LOin Ai>?LJAL tUINKKKENCE
Speaker Declares Raco Rcprc
sents more than Twelve
Million Persons
Chicago, June 24.?Declaring that
or Negroes in America "there are no
Republicans and no Democrats, only
riends and "oponents," Moorfield Sto eyr-of
Boston, President <Jf the ~Nar
ional Association for the Ad^ancenent
of Colored People, in a message
ead at the Opening Mass Meeting
ast night of the Association's Seveneenth
Annual Conference, urged coined
people to unite in behalf -of
heir citizenship fights. Mr. Storey
sho was secretary during Reconstrucion
Days to Senator Charles Sumner,
,nd has been President of the Ameri-J
o Chicago because_of the strain of
uuh a journey in ,1m adiaiiLed yuais,'
ending the message read last night.'
"We represent more than twelve ,
(lillion . Negro bloody" Mrcj
Storey's message conOnued, "entitled
mder our Constitution and laws to i
.very right thaf belongs to any Ame-1
ican citizen soup p'?ntiiTilhr to?twelve
those rights, and determined to
ight for them until they are secured.:
"Themeed-of the hour is union. -We
nust act together, work tncrptkor
'oto together. We ask. no charity, no
iriViiege only the rights of every Anorican
citizen, the right to live unnolested
in any hous^ whnrp v.-.w
i legal rig'ht to live, the right to be
>rotected in our persons and our proierty
against mob violence, the right
o a fair trial if accused of crime or
nvolved in^afiy civil controvesy, the
me rights that any other citizen has
n public parks, public schools, and all
>ublic institutions supported by taxes
if which' our taxes are a part. We
i<k equal rights in publie-conveyances
>ublic hotels, public places of amusenents
and abovg-all we want the right
o vote, for otherwise we are taxed
mtU-drafted without representation.
he cause of the Revolution which
ablished the United States.
"How shall we use our votes'? The
inswer is: 'Vote together for men who!
vill work for our rights and for no
ithers.'" There are for us'no Repub- ,
icans and no Democrats. ^There are
>nl/ fronds and opponents. We are
ireU of promises, pleasant words, apleals
to our gratitude {pr the acts of
lead men fifty years?ago. We want
vhat those men did uphold now, we I
/ant the Constitutional Amendments
/hich they passed enforced, we want
he rights which-they _gave us. recog-: .
lized, and no man who will yield any
ot of those rights* will receive our
rapport. Let its make this clear and
ven the fraction of our votes which
/eapon.. *' '5 ^ j
' Our next weapon is the courts_-Qf,
he country. Our experience has a- .
iundantly satisfied us that the courts
o*e our surest allies, and we have won
nany substantial victories. Our rule
nust be that whereever any right is
nfringed our organization must Be-l
eady to lake the case into cou^l and
here seek appropriate redress./
"Finally there is the. never-failing
ippeal to public opinion, and now es(Continued
on Page 8)
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iMifcililimiii lirin I III iiBTn iHm?
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*CPER1MENT
WORLD LEAGUE
AGAINST ALCOHOL:
Many Cities Under Prohibition
Refore -48th-Amendment
W a*? Adopted
UNDER PROHF LAW 70 YRS.
Dr. Ernest H. Cherrinirton. Se-j
cretary World League Court I
Speaks on-l^hohibltTon j
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^Columbus, 0., June 23?"Prohibition
lis not an experiment, " said Dr. Ernest |
H. Cherrington, general sec retail j
of the World League Against Al- j
eAtliolism, speaking. tonight at. the
convention of the Christian Endeavor
Union of Ohio in Memorial ? Hall.
("Scores/of Cities and half the States
(were under prohibition many ?ears"
i before the 18th amendment was adop:
ted. Elaine, for instance,' has been
under prohibition for nearly 70 years,
^Kansas for nearly half a'xentury.L
Cities With a population as large as
100,000 or more had been under prohibition
fnr.n quarter of a century
before the 18th "^Vmendment became
a real issue in Congress. Hundreds..."
of towns, villages, hamlets and town- <
ships were under prohibition by local
option- or? State- ltnw long?before the
real drive for national "prohibition began.
.. - ?T-"Prohibition
in the United States
opresents public opinion translated
into law. This fact is attested by the "
large majority that attended the sub
mission 01 vne amendment and its
tatification T>y~' the legislatures of 40
of the '48 States. National public opinion
cannot be determined by the attitude
of a few larg.e Cities or a few
States. \ That the people favor prohibiten
1.4 1'Ofll'gted by the attitude of "
the population in most of~the States,
which show an increasing tendency toward
upholding the law. In States
which have long been dry, problems
of enforcement,repeatedly have arisen
in large cities within such States,
where public opinion has hot boon
favorable to prohibition. , There has
been progress even in the wet States "
where wet majorities are decreasing.
Progress in enforcement is slow but
progress has certainly_ been made.
of prohibit ion, in?the last analysis rests
on public opinion for its sanction.
-In the problem of enforcement
a radical change for the better is apparent
in the administration of the
federal government. It is also true
that most of the State and local officers
have shown a determination to
tl.n 1,.... nr-v. j , ?
? ? >imm ib involved Of i'onrac
the fundamental-problem of education-<%?-the-people,
which is slow
bu.t sure. ,
"With all the difficulties of enforcement
and with many problems arising
in the efforts to secure proper obof
prohibition have justified the efforts '
__al ready _ made. Social com|itions have
improved. Politics are cleaner.
Economic benefits have been multt'pliecl.
The generaT mora] conditions
in America have been Elevated. Even
a superficial survey 6f the results of
prohibition will show that it is^ certainly
a substantial though not a complete
success."" Even thte causual observer
mil St tfdmit that there is less >
evidence now than formerly of the
presence" of the beverage liquor traffic,
less evidence of drinking, brawls
ar\d disorders, and less evidence of
the disturbance, accidents and fataliI
(Continued on page eight.) |
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"NEXT JANI'AHY
3RD IS THE DATE
Challenges The Right of Texas
To Bar Negroes From Voting.
In the Primary Elections
TO DECIDE RIGHT TO^VOTg
Fred C. Knojlenberg,. a white
Texas Attorney, Will Handle
The Case In Next Trial
"James"A. Cobb, member of the Narr
tionul Legal* Cummiui'i' Of the -A.
A. C. P., reports tfrat the United __
States Supreme' Court has-^hanced
the Texas "white primary" case oirthe
calendar afid has set next January 3rd
as the.date for argument/
The case, which challenges the ' '
right of the Texas legislature to bar
N egroe^ irgrn: voting, in ..the .State De*
moeratic primary elections, has been ~ "
appealed from the district Federal
V.WUII. uy me ;\. _a. a. C. P. which retained
a white Texas lawyer, Fred C.
Knoll.enberg, to' handle it.-Mr. Knol'.(jnberg
is receiving the cooperation- of
Mr. Cobb, Moorfield Storey, Presi???
dent of the N. A. A. C. P. and the
other members of the A ATP
National-isegal Committee. ' ~~ 7 "
Cataret, N. J. Negro
Con\JctecL2nd Decree ? z
Murder ?_
Defended by Attorney Wm, J. Brandon
and New Jersey N. A. A. C. P.
George Ducrest, the colored man__
who' is alleged to have killed John
Carroll, white prizefighter, during a
street fight in Carteret, New JJersey,
the consequence beiV^ the burning of
a Negro Church and The driving out
of town of. 100 colored people, has'
been convicted, of second degree murder
and ^entgneed to from 18 to 30 - - ??
years in prison. A masterly defense
of. Ducrest by Attorney William J.
Brandon of Voir?'?t. .. u
? u<> volunteered
his services, saved him from execution
in the electric chair.- _ . / '
The New Jersey Branches of the
National Association for the Advancement
"of' Colored' People agreed to
pay the cost of the trial and the NatTohaI
t)fTTce oT~the Association contributed
$">0 to the defense. ?
ioeal white newspaper sjveakTng
of tho work?of Attorney?Brandon,
wrote: "Attorney Brandon seemed to
have an uncanny knowledge of the
caTton* jurors who were dratvn. seemed
to konw their relationships aboutthe
county and their minds fairly
well."
Rev. I.ouis H. Berry who represen'0(1
" the N. A .A-?C* P. of the trial * ?
reports?tha%?prejudice ofwhfEF~eye^ ' .
witnesses and bKihwco "
??v,nv ui uciviisf witnesses
prevented substantiation of
Ducrest's plea of self-defense, but
that all present at the trial agreed a
" notable victory had been won in "
saving him from capital punishment
or life imprisonment.
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Take Due Notice!
vlTus is to advise that Mr. W, ?>.
Prince, former State Manager of the
Ordinary ...Department for the National
Benefit Life Insurance Company
with -headquarters at 1001
Washington Street, is no longer connected
with the^ Company. All premiums
may be paid at the Company's
office or to Mr. John M. Maxwell.
National Benefit Life Ins, Co.,
Washington, D. C. 4