Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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y . . 33 Lynch* South i *V , *" .':J >. . . m ?f ,i .'.?-i " . ?r " "? ' ' ' ': "^ryT#r" ... .. . ^ -?VOL. ni- NO. l.~ N.A. A. ' v* V... " ? ? #. r ^ N. A. A/0. P. OUR REFUGE 1 This Stalwart Organizaiton is _ Helping Negroes Through-. out America. MANY LEGAL VICTORIES " r. " ""j " t Injustice find Disability to ' wh*ch the Negro is subjected _ is being slowly conquered w ... /: . . I^ew York, Dec. 31?-The Negro's being gradually secured and estate ! nisnort in thP Pftiirts Qf lftw,ftfenrrling _ "to a summary of its Annual Report -?for 1926 iooucd today-by the Nation? of Colored People, 69- Fifth Avenue* "The main achievements of the Association during the current year. ->ve been its outstanding legal vic_ ies," declares the summary of the N. A. A. C. P. - Annuaf JReport. ; "Through the , courts the gravest ' *' forms of-"injustice and: disability to wHch the Negro is being subjected, nrr hning nlnwlv conquered^! ...J 7**he report lists the following outs'a 'ding legal victories won during >26; _j '? ' r _1. By the acquittal of ' Henry j Sweet in Detroit, In a second tiTul,! (all IT defendants having been tried together frt>-the first) the nqted at-- '> torney Clarence Darrow maintained : . . " * right of the Negro tb defend him- ' in his borne against the attacks ; ?aba^scekihg segregation^by vio- id?'t. and intimidation. The Sweet jo< Case was reported by the press I throughout the country and had a ; " decided effect in a number of cities ] which were moved to protect colored 1 residents when threatened and avoid < such disorder and expense as fell ? to the lot of Detroit. i . 3. The United States""SuprermT ~ Cmirt having declared its lark of_ A jurisdiction "in the so-called Washington Segregation Case, new cases | ? have been begun arid'are in progress, ; with the intention of appealing them < to the Supreme Court apd forcing fi 1 definite decision on thg_*qnpst|on ixL J ?- segregation by agreement among < white property owners. The new i cases are under the "supervision Of^. Mi\ Louis -Marshall,-member of thej-i ??N. A. A. C. P.?Board of Directors _ i'.*h,^ fom^niost nulhurlli on constitutional law in the country. ~r 3. Tn- Indianapolis, a residentiab ~i segregation" ordinance, enacted -by , i . the City Council .and_signed by the, \ Mayor despite protests of colored { citizens, was fought by the N. A. A- i C. P. Branch and. declared unconsti- t tutional on the basis of the decision in1 the Louisville Segregation- Case, r won irithe Supreme Court in 11)17 by ~ the N. A. A. C. P. A similar victory -j was won in Norfolk, Virginia. 4. The N. A. A. C. P. sent its check for $250 to pay costs of an.ap.-_. Ai"P0al to the Supreme Court rif South ? Carolina, id. the case of Jim Davis 1. sentenced to life imprisonment for 1 ^shooting and killing a white man who ^ 'had come to take Davis' two?daugh-{( $ers away. v j \ 5. The right of colored editors to ; freely speak fnr~ their ram against d Injustice in the South, was fought * Ih for in the case of Messrs. William ? It Warley and I. Willis Cole of Louis- j ^ ville, charged^ with libel for protest- ( ing against discrimination between white and colored defendants In speed ? of trials and severity of sentence im- * posed. The N. A. A. C, P.paid the s ' entire legal fee of their first trial," a- J r Amounting to $fjOff and has appealed ^ k. the convictions and fines imnosed. 6. One of the moat important at- J ?ytfreha ever undarlaken by the. N-?A?! f A. C. P. on the disfranchisement of < .j colored voters in the South, the case H _ (Continued on Page ^wo) ?' " ' 1 I " 1 1 xlIn 192t Carolini rOMrif Rat ; 4 i r d i V*i k ??? , . - r. ">...' ? ". .' ' T THE EDITORIALS FOR THE WEEK , , . . 7 Prizes are Awarded Negroes far" Distinguished Achie ' r ? Another - Award?Harmon A- i ward/;First time presented ?I .I;?niiMrv 1 1097 , Achievement of Negroes in nearly all fields of activity are rewarded yearly by three separate orgnmtZa+= | ions, each of which is filling a" need ill America and the civilized world, j' First and foremost?is tho Spingarn ; Me 'al, awarded to an American of j African descent for the most .distill- r guished achievement during the cur- : years. Then'comes/.the Amy Spingarn prizes?in literature and arty awarded each through the Crisis Magazine. The Spingarn Medal and t.he Amy^ Spingarn Prizes grow iut of the National Association' for r :he Advancement of Colored People.; Covering, practically the same field is the Amy' Spingarn Prizes, the (5p- !_ ioriuni'/y Magazine, published by. ;hc National Urban League, a little >ver two years ago announced that lwards would be made each year, and anally comes the Harmon Awards, ivlw.Vi oil ? ti.v'i viiiu.uvv C.W1 V?X LUVTllUHIS CUV"rod by the fnyo~ previously mention>1 awards, ;m I nuiro, .and which on January 1? lt)27, will have their_first presentation. The Harmon Awards v e trade thnpffjftrihc Commision on _ hurch ar.d Race Relations of the. ~ Co'.cral Council of the Churches of Christ in?A morion.?Fine arts, sol- " jnee, education, literature, industry, - elision, museic and race relations ire the fields coyered by the last panied ttwardsr'.* ~~? * * ? ?All the-e awards?should?have a ;ti mutating effort on the Ney;ru late, ir.d ?:i)ur it on to heights hitherto. ~ iohsidercd. out of .its grasp. Airealy they_have shown that in attenvpt fig-to-ntamp the Negro as~a "hbJur >f wood and drawer of water," a.vir- ( ?ih field of creative ability is being rampled under foot. . ... VIASS MEETING TO BEJIEED- j The mass meeting to.be held in the nl crest. ol the logiil branch 'of tire = SJ. A. A~ C. P., at Bctfiel A. M. E. , < I Church next Sunday; January 9th at ( 'our o'clock is sure to he of unusual I nterest.... The program committee-1 ins arranged an interesting ahef fm;triictTvc progfram?not" long," hut ] pointed and helpful." It is hoped that 1 >very person who has ever Been a ' nember will come and Bring some 1 'fiends. Very soon a meeting for the 1 lUmr" niemWrslufr and get others to _ oin. And be sure to come to this iiuuiniK v/?n rrivrrr, lour o uiin:K, nun- ^ lay (rftemoon-, Bethel. .II. K. LINDSAY, President. J R. W. JACKSON, -Secretary. . T7-~ a? . 7 T7" - - ' / >r Include ! ? ?h . aTurrii 1 Asked < Maia 3RDERS1 V " - : . - -. LYNCHINQS IN THE PAST YEAR One Lynching and that in Georgia Has Been visited by Punishment One of.the Jlob Victims had been Ordered Acquitted by * the Presiding Judge New York, Dec. 30?The Natipnal Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 69 Fifth Avenuef reports 33 recorded lynchings in the United States for the year as ?gainst 1H la*', year. Klnridn lendn the lynefa^ ing Stxdrsr*\vith 8, Te$as is second wmi o, hiiu Mississippi imra witn 4. 'I he?other States having . recorded lynch'ngs-are as follows.:?Arkansas, S?.UIt Caroling and Georgia, 3 each; Louisiana and ^"enessee, 2 each, and Kentucky, New Mexico and Virginia, 1 each? . ? Of the victims of lynching mobs three wer^ white, one was a Navajo Indian and a nib rig the victims were two colored Women, one of them, lynched at Aiken, South Carolina, and one pear Houston, Texas. One of the mob victims had been ordered acquitted by the presiding udge at his trial, one in Texas was hot by white oflicers while manacled, me was Accused efv house-breaking, ai d amuig tho-allogod-oflfonsoB of the, .iitiins were: '(entering the room of i whi-ci-womanT-murder; and three "Negroes were killed in Texas in revenge for a- crime with which they had no connection. __i A statement issued by James Welden Johnson, Si'Pi-pf nry of the?National Association for the Advancement of colored People, lays the increase in Tynchings to the failure of the United. States Senate to take action on a federal anti-lynching bill. Mr. Johnson's tjiuleiiieut says: "There is one excellent and reaa* t^nalde ex p la nation- of ~tite increase, from HLTynchings in 1025 to 33 in 1926. While there was threat of a federal law, with consequent juris-! i!ction of federal courts over this j rime, the lynchers hesitated. When the United States Senate refused evL'li to disciiss the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, that- was-equivalent to-gervrngnotice otuTiie lynchers .that they /quid pursue their ^pastime. virtually unmolested. - -.4. yJ - ' _ | "So far-only one lynching, and that one in Georgia has been visited by punishmenf'nt thclipmls df tiitf law^i Iho United States Senate refuacs-fcfr: liscuss-lhe.Hy.c.r Anti-Lynching Bill,, because of the obstructionist tactics of a small group of Senators from the -lynching States." On December 27th, Mis?fe|i8 At* left for.New York City, for/the Xmas Holidays. They were entertairufed with j many gay parties while theYe. On Xmas- day they were the guest of Mrs. Jenkins, 11524 Brook avenue, Bront, N. J/- 1 ? - M - i. " NOTICE TO THE-PUBLIC. I the undersigned wishes the public o know That the music furnished for .he "Emancipation Celebration" on fsew Year's day Was not the Davts Band. Ed. F. Davis, Manager. - nil if ' ihli' . . ) . o Women, ?? ^ , . _ [)n <SWHITE Wm JROBE OF " " , ' ^ * i'S SI ??I , * i CASE BEFORE THE v SUPREME COURT Jim I Davis Kills a Notorious ? 1 rflVAite Man-in Fairfield . County, S. C. JjJRSX--TIM&=fN^"TROUBLE White Man attempts to take Davis* -2 daughters away "from Home Now York, Dec. 31?The National | Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth Avenue, to' day made public details of a new outrage in the State of 'South Carolina 1 iyhieh ragontly stirred the country I with the lynching of a colored wo-( : man and two men at Aiken. The j 1 present case oh which the N. A* A. C. . P. has been working since September' farmer, 52 years old, living in Fair| field County S. Cr,~who shot and kilU1 J ed a while man, notorious for his shooting of Negroes, who had come j to take the colored-inan^Wtwo your.g i daughters. LV G. Sopth'ard, ^Kite-^ ! i * .1 ; attorney of Spartanburg, who help j ' ed defend the Lowman family in Ai- i kerr, cn Sept. 27 conferred on the case in the N. A. A. C. P. National i Office and is appealing the convict- J Ion of the colored farmer. The N. A. ] A. C. P. on Oct. 11, 1926, sent its I check for $250 to cover the printing ; costs incident to the appeal. Mr. i Southard telegraphs the appeal will be argued-4 Jttm?10, 192?;?The faets-|-l jn"the case, as recited in the appeal to the State Supreme Court .are as < follows: " i -?Jim Davis had nevei before been i ( in trouble of any kind. He had two 1 t youthful daughters who had been j clandestinely taken from his home < with another girl. by three : Negro J boys who kept the girls in Columbia and then Greonwpod, returning-them -1 ' after figme^days to their" home. The ^firther-Tcceh'cd 4hc girls on the state- -t ment of the boys-thatrthey were mra* ? ried, .and that marriage license would 1 be .shown him. ] The boys were working in a near- \ by road camp gang constructing, a ? . public highway. A week later;1 the i two boys planpcd to remove the girls 1 -when the-road -eamp broke upland the' i "boys avcrht'urd asking a white-; man, J. Austin Scott, the Tbad camp "j boss, if he would help them as he < had promised. -.One of the boys, it 1 was reported to Jim D^vis, exclaimed c ."We will get-oor girls in the morning ^ at Jim Davis' house." v j j- Informed of this, Jim Davis re- 1 fused to let the girls go. He inform- i ed the boys they could talk to the t girls outside the house but he would t JPtot lgr"them enter; hTs_ house again, ~i no marriage license had been s shown him and he ditf not propose to ~ let his girls go to live in a road camp, r At this time Jim Davis' white land- t lorri. fi F, Mnrtln nooeA/f 4-V?a 1 , V..., ,/CJvH.U >111 ?,I1C road, and Jim Davis ran down to ap- * peal to him for aid in persuading the * white man Scott not to aid the boys. The boys returned to the road camp 1 and told Scott, they could not get the ~~ girls. Scott then said-he would get ' 1 them. Scott tmrtnip a 38 calibre pis- -t tol, made sure- it had four cartridges 4 in it and on bfnng told there were no f more cartridges said: "This is e- t Continued on page sight. J ~ ' 3 Whites, New G : PRIMAR ' ' ' ~ ' ' I , , [ 1 . 11 *: r? INUAO MIAMI V I v^r M J J M B > M / r~W*W~^~~m29 ?p ? - o . : * t NEGROES BARRED 5 FROM VOTING 1 I ' Jib Texas makes Law Barring atl ... N^groes-Zfriim Voting.in ? f. (hat State c Dr. L. A. Nixon, of El Paso, a ,.( Democrat, was not allowed to vote in Primary t] = C- "??r? ?7- ? D Washington, Jan. 3?Attorneys re- j, tained by the National Associationfor the Advancement of Colored Peor 51 pie with headquarters in New Yorj?>( .g argued before the Supreme C6tirt ^ that the Tyxaa "White Priparvw law, ft enaci od - May; - 1923tmrring Negroes from voting in the Democratic prim- a, aris of the State, is unconstitutional, | ^ urging that thp Tpybq lnw aim a vio- | ft lation of the 15th Amendment to the [ Constitution and of Sections 1979 0j and .2004 of the United States Stat- a| uteSf * -J ; !*g The case befqre the Supreme Court p arose-out of an action broueht in the 1. *-?? . ir Te>:as courts by Dr. L. A. Nixon, of ^ El Paso, who, being a bona fide Dem-1 ft ocrat with poll tax receipt and en- J. tittfed to vote in Precinct Number 9 m of El Paso County, was on July 26, J" l, barred from voting in the "party tl primaries in pursuance with the con- j th tested Texas law of 1923. The Judge ^ sc and Associate Judge of elections in j ju that- district, Messrs. C. C. Hernddn j and Chas. Porras, issued a certificate th to Dr. Nixon confirming that they gj bad declined to permit him to vote. Dr. Nixon in this test case, finan- to :ed by the National Association for ar the Advancement of Colored People, aa is claiming damages m the sun? of $500<i. The case has come to tfie Supreme Court on appeal from the Fed2ral District Court for the Western } District of Texas. The text of the contested Texas v- ' aw is as follows: 1 and constitution of the' State of Tev- no hs-whb^areTibna fide members of-the- cr Democratic party shall be eligible to Cu participate in any Democratic party nii irimary election, provided such vot- hi. tr' complies with all-laws and rules so jqverning party primary elections; Hi ftfwever in no event shall a Negro co liote in a Democratic party primary blj TtprttTTrr li^ld In tl?c 3lolc uf Texas, xnd shoulda^Negrovote in a Demo- MbT, :ratic party primary election, such1 er jallot shall be void and election offi- m, :ials are herein directed to throw out meh?hallot, and not count t.hp game. Fred C. -KnoHenburg,--of El 'Pasoy-gg etained,. by the National Association thi 'or the Advancement of Colored Peo- <ju jle in behalf of Dr. Nixon, argued no hat as Democratic party primary dectiojs in Texas are recognized and co ogulatcd Hy" I&W," casting" a ballot in 0n ;uch 'an 'election is an act of voting j vithin the meaning of the 15th A- sc] nendment; and the immunity a- d0 gainst discrimination on account of ace or color guaranteed in that a- co nendment, protects the Negro in his ca ight to vote in such a primary. m-, Mr. Knollertburg'8 brief further |yj eeltes: , "The DemocrbtiC jraft3Hprtmnry tTF^Dt Texas is the only real election in un h?T State, and the -general election be h November is nothing more than a hi: ormal ratification of the results of ou he Democratic primary. The same! wl (Continued on Page Sight) I / , * , , J . ? L ,T'* " ' ' Indian ? ? : _- >| ? T? ? jj -- ; ' V"'< ' . ' 7*'; >~ 5c A COPY ? ifport LLit U1V1 wmrc mtamt MARINE OUTRAGE lajor General Lejeune Is re- . quested tothoroughlyijiyes ^ tigate the matter ' ' 11E MARINES 3IIOOT TWff" Irs. Burnside's Affidavit stated ' that she was a Relief ~JWorker _ _/ iNew York, Decr-Si?The National1 ?:_rr? issuciatiun for the AdVanceme'nt qf olored People, 69 Fifth Avenile, has sceived a letter from John Marshall,. Lssistant Attorney General, stating^ * nat the U/S. Department of Justice/ rrthe basis of a affidavit lorwarded y the N. A. A. C. P. charging shoot- * ig" araTviolence by U. S. marines in liami.'has asked-a thorough investi-* - . ation by Ma,jpr General John A. ejeune, commanding officer of the larine Carps. ? The .Department of Justice's letter idressed to James Weldon Johnson, ' A. A. C. P. Secretary, iff as fol iws:_ I _ r * * 1 - *-* * . jnc iu rciei^ro your letter f November 24, I92G enclosing an tfidavit ' made by Mrs".; Mabel I. urnsi 'e of thq County of Dader in lorida, with respect to certain air ged action on t.hg?pArlu of thA Ma- - -'7nes toward herself and her. brother < blowing the storm at Miami. The Depatment has referred this . . alter to' -Major General John A. ~*? ejeune, with the request that he loroughly investigate it and advise ie Department of the result. As ot^ as General Lejeune has been . ... ' ;ard from you will be advised. "Mrs. BtiiTVSTde's 'affidavit stated at although she was in a relief orinization doing relief work, the ?arines were going to compel her come with them for forced labor* id when her brother went to her sis.tance a Marine shot th"1"" hoth??? iVHY DO YOU LYNCH ME? ' lUKu i?...?i_ ?- - ' " -.? "u -1J1111.H mu now t met I '?? it help to fall the trees which coy?: 1 cd our beautiful land??Did ~i~not ?- ? ltivate the soil which feeds A srican sons? Did I not give my aod in Boston because I loved you f Why do you,lynch me now? ave I not always responded to my untry's call ? " Have I not shed ?ed?en?the- Cuban- -fstemds" and in~~? . c wratican- tints 7 ilave?net?my?-A ? ood mingled with yours in Flands Field? Well, why do you lynch i now ? Have i ever died with my back to iy? ?Hnvo I evrr?Iteiia^ed my untry's flag? Have 1 ever caused . g. stars..and stripe3 to drag in?the st? Well, why do you lynch- me w? . L?o I not share my part of?the untry's* responsibility aa it dropa the shoulders erf its citizens? Do jkp.h o ol.. aiid p rup a re _ jam-? if to better serve my ronnt.ry ? Why you lynch me now ? ' % Do you lynch mc because my rcrd is pure.? Do you lynch me beuse I can and am willing: to Rive 7 all for my country? Do you rich me because I ' am prepar> you lynch me because you do not derstand me, or do vou lvnrh m? cause you carc nothing for mef my r God and Posterity? TeTI me, " ly do you lynch me ? . . . WAYMAN JOHNSON ? . > '