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. * . ' ' ' . . .V I ' . : ; * /" ?-V : ' :v': I K * . . . V . VOX,. IV.?NO. 46. Association Florida ?: FLORIDA SHERIFF I t LEARNS N. A. A.C.P. ? ? ? i The Hon. Mose Penttm Returns to' Pensacola Minus Prisoner ? York, November 16?Florida's1 ^^bad lynching record has been made i Hhe basis of a determined fight by the | I braneh o fthe. N. A. A. ^Tprevent the extradition of a colored ^fcrseT-^Yiola Edwards ,to Pensacola. Rs a consequence of which Sheriff ^Rldse Penton returned to Pensacola -without his prisone'ij and told the local citizenry all about it. According to the Pensacola Jour-rtal, of October 21, "The sheriff is not at all certain Governor Fred Green of Michigan will grant extradition. No decision on the matter will be niade until a thoi-ough hospital formerly operated by theNe. gress, and of the . present _att.itude of the citizens here is made, the Governor indicated; . - "W. Hayes McKiriney, Detroit attof ney for Viola, introduced records of the National Association for the Ad^ ' vancemcnt uf Colored people showing Florida citizens have lynched 195 per-s, sons between the years 181)5 and 11)18.1 according-to Sheriff Penton. The same . records show five Negroes have been lynched in Escambia County during the same period. .. ? "McKinney's entire fight against the extradition of the Negress .was based upon the danger to her if she was ever returned to Florida." The same newspaper reports a likelihood of a decision in the case .some time.in November. \ ' I . . . ROSENWALB-FUNI) (JIVES S1.000 FOR N. A. A. C. P. LEGAL .WORK New York, Nov. 15?An appropriation for $1,000 has been made by the ! Julius Rosenwald Fund for the Legal Defence Fund of the National Asso ' \ ' ' . ' , . . ' . V " . V-. . ' - 4 I W. Durham, N; C., Nov. 9th?What was perhaps the mast unusual event that evt took place in this city, famed for 3s cigarettes and its successful Negl businesses far more for its education...^advantages, occured here last Friday when formal dedication exercises for a $75,000.00 graded school, ? a modern fire-proof building of 30 jr. rooms, were held, and 'the school naro?' od for a black man, whot tho, horn in slavery, has risen lo' become a distinguished citizen of the city and state, esteemed by black and white alike, and who has given 45 years of uninterrupted service in DujhamV public school system, and now heads ; the high school, located only a stone's t throw from hi?L-hirthplace?William I . Upon the platform in the auditorium if of the new school were Vhil^city officials, including the president of the Chamber of Commerce, the president f i Prevents irfi*ar1ifiAn i&va MVIAUVll DORSEY RIDICULES HEREDITY MONGERS N'eW York, Nov 16?"Iloridity Mon, i rs" who claim superioty for blond { Nordics-arc sharply ridiculed by Geo. I A. Dorsey, author of why we behave1 ike human'beings writing in the November issue of "Plain Talk^on "RaCeCivI]k<.ntion Upooiulintu.'1 Mr. Dorsey traces the develonement T the race superdity theories from Count Gohineau and the successive emphasis on "Aryan", "Teutonic" and "Nordic". Other contemporary writers of thip sort whose facts and theories are found wanting on gxaminataidri in< lude Dr. Ellsworth Huntington, Proffessor William McDpugall, Lothrop Stoddard, Edwin. M. East, and Albert Edward Wigganl who "has broadcast, more-false views abhut race and ' -ivilization than any other one man." "The chief difference between these neremty. mongers and the Ku Klux Klan," writes Ml*. Dorscy, "is the difference between kid gloves and a night "own?they have the same ethics. There Is no ])roblem of race and civilization'; they know." Mr. Horsey summarizes the avail"able 'evidence of authorities in medicine biblbgy an<l anthropology to show up the falsity of the heredity mongers doctrines. . "Our problems," he concludes, "are not those of race and civilization, but! of too little understanding and too* much prejudice." * . iation for the Advancement of Colored People, $500 to be paid shortly, and the second .$500"on February lst7 Edwin R. Embree, President of the Fund, writes: "We all . lake much pleasure in being associated^ in the important work of the National "Association for the Advancement of Colored People for its Legal Defence Fund." - ? TV " * ' ftincl the Superintendent of the city /schetols, who joined in making formal pra^entation of the ticw building to Che colored citizens of Durham and who vied with earh other" in heaninc praise; upon the Negro man whose name it is to-bear. Dr. C. N. Newblod, of the pepartment of Education of the StatS of North Carolina was at hand to accept the school as an addition to this-state's provisions for ejimcntury education for the Negro; ami in an address the subject of which was of Education" brought oUt the interesting fact that North Carolina has become a Mecca fo^r educators from Europe, Africa and Asia who have hecome interestecf^tn the state's, forward looking program for the Negro's Education. Jas. Cobb, President of the Chamber 1 of - fkmimeree, who delivered an address on "Negro Business in Durham" declared that Durham's ^id fof fame as the "Friendly City" was due in I . ' .. f . fetlttte COLUMBIA, S. C? SA'l ATTENTION C0L011EI ^ UMJBIA AND RIC3H We earnestly ap?u?al to every woman to help us make January 1 that we have ever had?It is the < us by Congress; and we. should sh together and demonstrating art, i mestic. science, and njingljng our God, for Our privileges and ache W.e also invite every colored, ci ?r the -Association Momhr.r night-r^ 8 o'clock sharp; for the purpost and electing officers of 'the dav. " Time?MONDAY NIGTIT. NOT "V.,;... . i*. . . J OUt!S? ipr ... w ~ ' . - _ Lin l>K OnUOlg OTsf . SOUTHERN TOUR , New Yark, Nov. 1G?Dr.'AV, F. 15.1, I Du "Bois, Editor of the Crisis, is on a > I lecture tour during which he is to aildress students n the leading southern ! educational institutions including Tus- * kegge Institute, Fisk ami Atlanta Uginia Normal Industrial Institute,- Talv , 'adega College- and others. ' The subjects on which Dr. Du Bois will speak include the following: "The Negyo ijr Literature and Art;" "The,, Pre"3fcpt Condition "of Black Africji;" "Democracy in the United State.s;" i "The Russian Revolution."? h The schedule of Dr. Du Bois' adtj^es- j es as mad<( public tuthrr?hy the X., A. A. C. P., is *as follows: November 11 ^Palmer Memorial i Institute," Sedalia, N. C.; November 12 V+r?iniaI^ormal and Inilustr.wU Insf.-1 tute, Petersburg, Va; Nov. 13, Shaw Univei*sity, Releigh, N. Nov. 11. Colored State Normal School, Fayette vHle, N. C.; Nov. 15, J. C. Smith, 1'ni- , versity, Charlotte, N. Nov. 10.. A^* 1 len University, Columbia, S, C.; Nd'v.'li 18, Bethune-Cookman Institute, l>aytona, Fla; Nov. 10, Edward Waters ! College, Jacksonville, Fla.; Nov. 20,\ \ Charleston, S. C.; Nov. 22, Atlanta University, Nov. 23 Morehouse Col-, ! lege, Atlanta, (la.; Nov. 25-37, Tuske- < gte. Institute, Tuskeegee, A hi.; Nov. 11 28, Fisk University^Nashvillr. Teijn. J 'into... jre \ * ^ obi Dedicated in large measure to the friendly relatjons existing between the races locally and > to the successes which the No-; . gro business men of the city have; attained. * . . ture ofth e exercises was the address i of Superintendent F. M. Martin, "No-j pro Education in Durham." Fewr Southern communities have witnessed the' head of its city schoof "system boasting of its progress 1 n piovullnu ' facilities for Negro Education?as a'v matter of fact, it could no? have hcondone here ten ycarsjago?which fact is, in itself an evidence of progress in race relations, in Durham. Mr. Mar-j tin submitted figures in support of his claim of progress and drew conclusions from the same. Another graded school, a modern, fire-proof $50,000.00 building in tyons Park section-, for colored, is soon to-beerected, together with a $15:000700 brick annex to house manual training, shops is planned for Hillside Parkj w + 1. ' i , . v . l?l>Av. NOV. 17, 11)28. ) CITIZENS OF COLt rue Aniorrean Race ntan and 3 . 1 th?- greatest fyTi'hratinn. >nly day nationally -conceded to fow oin- apjji eoiaiion hy coming laal'lsni ui-liu^iyiriiadturf, driyotf res in praise arid prayer to iviijnents.' ' tizon to.vUttend the meeting of < of completing arrangements 6 . x O'CLOCK -TXfrmr success, ' .. . H. COfl.TRV. President*, coin Memorial Association. ftlE WI'jEICS 7 EDITORIAL [I'nim the N'?;\v Hertford Mass., Times, Oc\ 25)', |})28. YVOHST SJNCKtHKFOKH 'fil 'i '-;eayo one "f the Presiden' il i' tes was reported'to haye ' 'in * (i' with a tarty, of different color, r In vtc's mttnntrors at once rush <1 I;"- 'print with the loudest assert o tf ir sticlv an incident hart not "irreil.... ' hearted Americans were (lisiv->\;"<i Cim r ny civil and law-abiding ciutio)) of American citiaonc with jjcTi .other should have been made the .object of sikMi clamorous- repudiations We lire well pleased to note thai IMinguisfied persons of color have onVe forth, emphatically to object tc I his \>n-.\ inerk'an disregard for the -eitsthHities of ffthcr excellent Ameri hn citizens, A -purest against' race prejudice, phiclv, it is charged, has been into ted .i?vt>. the presidential campaign, !:V NvU. Republican' and Democratic Pnrlu was made recejitly in an apl-e: 1, ??J by the N. A. A. C. P.. for a p.oblje repudiation *'ot this cani; align of r'K-kil haired." . The appeal is. signed by leading poo !>le of color t'hi itout the country, head d by It. It,. M??tonA Principal of,Tiiskc gee Institute} W. K. B. Dli fioia, Continued on page eight Durham, Nr C. IIl.uli Scli<of sii-Mi' Martin announccod. . . Anionu i he colored speakers wore I'r. James K. Shepnrd. President ot tint -North Curdling College for Nedent of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and I>r. .h ('. Cotton. President of Hendersor Normal Institute,. accepted the schpo on behalf of the colored citizens of-th( -->'iV <( Murhani. =?? Prof. .William Gaston Pearson, fgi whom Dvt^ syhooDwfts-named, first l>o Kan tefuhiiiib in-Durham in^lS83. anc has l>f<.h connected with the city school system continuously since. Ij< has jvuhted' nation'wide notice by rea son of '.'his philanthropies, ?a n c the success of ^several Durham enter prises which he heads, a.mOnpr whicl are the Royal .Knijrhts of Kinpr Da vifh 4he Banker'^ Fire Insurance Co and the Southern Fidelity and Suretj Company. the only Negro Companies of their kind in the Ur S. * _ 4':-' - ' . 7 i 1 Ben Bess In Pi SUPREME COURT' . IIE.^RS OsfcT BI N BKS;;' CASK MK.ri;l>. so-culled purd< h signed 1.' i' XJdvoipor Richard- \*.a: in a dense'pq i?aK;l? !? a', al!. and the; the Negro's 'n.'incuiVfTa'-ion ! : *-' TtiiS U v'v '~ , in till' a; j'l'.il v' i' I 1 suprei)M' com l t- Jay iii via- \v . kit .. . case of tlu " I-'ior< iH-.i- i-..nn'y,. X?v " who served. V luiaeen of a.l sentence . foe criminal assault on a White woman. to train his- 'rem whim the prosecutrix siytn d-a stu' I nicht.that tedded tt? exTdu-i'a.o ! ami then to.find himself again I trlri vj.penjtcnii.ary. .liars- whim the V; .-i.ii.aj: signed a rccftnd -stati'mo-nt. rd| i ij: , jug as fraud Ivor first afii'uvit.. 'I : iii so' was ta'.o a under aMs-'nu.:; r the", court. .. ? _i Appealing for It..- - v. re A. I. King of Florence and N. .1. Fredi ! ! colored lawyer of.'Ct/hinihVa. lie] ro. scnting the .state. \\ ere Aioine\ end John -M. 1 hi.nird .and A-.-i -taf;i .\\ l to; ih-v 'Conor:,1 f-.r.li.- 1':-. . ; ; -Mr. King, argued that the \vdn?ln - ; signed tji.' . st'.uhudfH ticui lug ' In of her c.\vn'accord .ur.il thai-m> TYa a! I liUtl liecll I Cl^'et >?Ucd. Jn .'ho p? i. . t of'tof?ly.']'^uJa-iok:--*irp-;?-'f 1!: cwrrt . ti"ii that the circuit i ??' - ab..~.- '. "injr. was. appe'alcd !.?"? the' 'state jTienic con if. erred in referring ti*. ease to tin- .master iV.iv tcStin'p'iVy t?> . support- or. rif.Ji.'- the v?>nU n.ti 'U.<t!:a. fracni bottomed. the go\v. nhr's^ a. don.. - . ~ ; ' T- J? King argued that. habeas v-.r- . pus.':p^ocivdnv m re'.not- the pr per . actum ii.i this- case and that tii/Mi. has rccejved a pardon."cannot be-de--;, , privet!'of the right, e.xyepl liy.'certain methods .laid down in iitUa If i':uhabeas corpus process, is allowed" t hold in C 'lUnetioh with- pardons, as in the Bess, etise. Mr. King argued . then .all pardons .could be attache, and Inany revoked in similar .n.ar.r.or Mr. Ikigc statin! tliaf the 'slate- op. :- m?tr-leonte?d-t-tntt-Hhe c ."< rn"r i-"': 1 right tir revoke a pardon; it wn. .; niitte.il, he said,-thai tlu jroverr.or '. a no right to ruvoite a pardon;* yxa-p: where the piuTom i~ secured tin;'.tig 'fraud, and "in such a. case; a> in. tl.s ( Bess case, there vitirf ihi"h no : a.-' -_al?tvll."- ' . CTrTTh-jf sai l that the ;-anl--fi Fa been \socurod i i'MJii ti'ii*-- hovei-upr wita ; loon. made to hrini. For distance.. l i ?pointod ?t'hc - \ l : i '.1' u.d h know, ihat.thy woman had hoeil pa'.. i?5i!..for.>1 tsnjnir-hvr- liI'.-t at> )> .?. Asso/iatc J'u s fcwv' "TV iftia'n sMiti V. ?dm ilift ti'.f?ht'M'i' u'?ft' t! *v ci.v. iti if it wolf sin . !> that the i a men IT? b< i n h'a'sod on fratal, tin:- ootirt-fiv:.. d ,^a'vc t>> .lv4tl that :ho .pardon.\v:i> inBefore the appellate o uit the ease . hinged jrtajnly on the i|Ues;i?ii of tin -=-rirrfrr-Trf--thr?-rtrrTiit ' trr~i-rrr;-: tlu- case to".iho master for tvslin.oi.y .,on the matter of frau<h T. Thdllrr-iV iTi i... w :V - 'Ti.TiT.T 1 iy .1 l.h 1 \V, II. Town-send in Columbia .las .Iu) Iy ,Thu-jciiu.aijt c.uuxa lyfcxxnd it. Jd..-s-. ? tor * .! C. Townsend. for tcstimonyr i The circuit court held- that the pnr: 'don .was ha'sed- on fraud and that the I .governor was within tho law" in do, , [! c-larinii: the pardon revoked: Bo i Hi?\v jti . i.hp siatu' point on; in ry -?oh?? '; Columbia Record. 1 SI\r,IN(i OF SIMKITFAI.S AT \. I . CHARMS QRKKA rF.OIM.i: I i ' ' | A.tlanta, Nov. HI- Last week the A-nwieari Opofa Company came lure 4 1' r o t'essul' -G enrgo R. llinin,vii 'ais'i his' N daughter. Mrs." .Carter, invited Mr.* ' Vladiinei' Losing. 'the Artistic TMreet! or of the company to eprwv out to At-*. j'anta University to hear the students i sing Nemo Spirituals. Mr,expressed himself as highly please t II with the singing l>y -the student . lie said that in the rhythm and in r me i other respects, the Negro spiri' - resemble the Volga boat srtigs as sung ~ hy the~rRussiah "peasants. ' Mr. I' pson, ' me of the Opera-Siars also game o'u4 5. with Mr. Rosing and he -was eqirmty~ pleased with the singing*.^ ""I J , ' . j Tt. i'* . *' ' . 'i;- ' ' $ . . i . <x- A COPY ison . ft W? t? A. A viv TARY AX ALLEN ? r? ~~ T-yr -".1 . . i.'ij . ?.i' Allen' -f ! : f>ri1 .!>. in ivriiu?? :.i: 1 vc-rt ?"1 .i^M.r. K. 1J. .May ' . . ' . .1-i'uUn- . '! >.. i: c .-i.fi v. M: -"V I . V '1 L1vlU-'': ~ -1-??. ' ' . hM Stxli-.^y .rV.'.' i- r ' v '.x: - 'tis- . ' ;ii>- 'i )-.c * ' <l:ryj;-ihvee. ; < t ic s Iv-M 1 j"? ii'-y preat . :..it" 1? -1: I > : ' <j. ( ' m?t i < il '.'/-.ii 'Ji school . . ' < ' at? any Ktfeeess ' j. tin- . Mr. Ii;v\ ,a:i-'j > t-u j-irri-,-1- th.-. .ami larjrei thl JU- . ' Hi- Mi' - r. jo of fe?- ' 1 I *i'i: . v .-ijVa*I. an* ? mett.;.\vh' -u.irin)* . ' r irj<K~irra<; ts'itju cays. 'lie lur.i-r>if.;:avv<;<1-jtrro tart Quit .when H.!}11 seho.,1. ho j a- -much iti the vtirld a> ho i.-vo.i: will W. T : . '1 tie si'CMii ' tHenry evpJ:Med was that a v^.-.v?la<-at : .?) f. <* e>von- . tail .Ao. *.v.uei- . la (Apl'winjr .this ?ry 'a?> :i;'i n n T on' 1 i. t" i nf, IH'C ?? \: j : toi.Meney or. the part of <ie- . f < th.'i's.'of tin*''"theory ,ip- point/to the i I-.;;.j:jLS w-. aiuni.t r i . u-as-mntr-. 11!> t; i>UiJ>\v -.iUU uith-r" *fy : -piveiferwar 1 educa.v--.ui ? i tr ;t IJ l' Wtlshinjr! .i\ ;\ ; V ::1> n.ue in livo^hun^ ' .<1 \\a.>: v.hj!? a mini of.tlie bril- . jjiincV * f i.!:';:.'' >? Ci:rS v<'eIHiVT-ow is ! r 'Jv's v.'-iy (:: ;i ' tir-qMirui Years.' Th'tf, IT.hij f I : l;-!e r.vu>t go '.h'r.i scliii.'!; ::p."i i i'l-'y ihomsclvoS s? ""^y >.? ".'j ' ' j ul m later a. ' \ i n.were adjured show!:*'v tlui*. a. i-re'popdi. r:of the men- . - . < . v. ; y'i rc j jr..; i ( hart or and _ a: ip :i ! ihat titer y ovvm f *< tin::'. : v. < .1 a. inth" hiyd.uuyj lacbs ^ . ..f-.pi.jvau- lifo.'.afo'. c.. Uc;u: ifajr.tal mcfrTU.. t! at >' '. ! ilk ot,' **m' wealth" 7s * r "r.,.; int'o Xr.c ,c t'.'t";'. : college trained t.-.e-i*. u\Vf:..v...:'".. . Yluvth-'?.! t!*..c j;y i'Np.'ilctl .wa v t hat a..-.U.?.r i t./.hV .limy fur t ! ~rWj-yiHg, &{' '? -iai cr.il h:\\ jr.'- r. ;:t oti time, rtl 'V.': ami VM a_a i?,.thc tjnie :?> .:.-c, it w. -Iv c;;.:: <l*>tr rhu t!:';ory. . fit:tn fjcs "were~pve.?en-ivf V-:' ? tf tlZ:J ..; 1 v < fid v. ' '.v. - ij at : w - v.i - .Ve ai'-rninpr . .... ii ' i\ 4 ; j' r.he ui t at : jtoratiiie nf ' hi \\ < . l \\\\ iu> Utrod r-"-*?^ 1 ?1 . it ' r a'v mtt \a! ,i ^ .v.oao'yet- ill .- Haifa1 \vi rk- w . re f i: i i.-'-heil thea ' , , , i, . : :. i, T... ' : . .1 ' 'v.l' !?:. lit i; inUfii tiif.l'irnrtti'o CuT:-.nA Iii i iT; i< - ;;s (xaiiiplcs i.?r what y 'iilh van <lo ii ii'vill. His W a? i)H iil.ijis oxidant within. thu.iV 'jrrf.up. * 1 . ^ ^ i V. \ v\. A.. V. MA SONS M l.ET ' ;i Cil'JitHi I.. ?l<:e F. & A. A. y. ,Mns,ohj< (I'l 'mvy Hall Pri- . ?. sAs?ami (inUnl-.i van -Hri'Mm 3?rrf?; rly.'ii-ho .unisiliviion ?>t" So'ut.H Cat'olina ? ja- tia^ wt y ( >t iHin v:.. Tin- tii-aaii. ! '.)?? was i ! iQ i '.' , 1-y (i) am! Master, . i V. II. niu knoy ,?ml thy Grand '' >< ' ft?j i-.t j i '1 r''. ;v hy thy Nation ? .I lir.iit.i -^Tosi Aiv.-io.r.-t- Matron. Miss X, A. MrQ-a v. h ''Iv't r.n nnm- nn-. : li'.v/.o l a; rtc.hj;v- t-'-l; ^>11. ono of. . h. .-itvin i.i.L Hh.ctv of- thy O^srahi* Over i'^.0v. tnl at this scs:.].- > y^Vrarse.I for charity atv.( ii.?r f - rrernbefs. The HradijaaHeri i.".. Iiv< ii a:i i -Q>i< m ^trot'tn ' ?? v-'.ji ij j-'^1 cir.fr 1 c.yrht hy the ovranizat'e." a"o .v.pUiiy sueecctKnjr and are in hope*- i>y the next annual session j > 1 o j:v cur own. fn'jiluljt^r / ?Tivc scssic'n?- v cro-poa cful and har-? ? m?-ni^rr.-nni yrnved thPT.crpsftity-arrd ' worth' prtho; orpnTzation by tKo well re tr sentc 1 ciolcjjjjtes from .various fv's t f *'v? state. 'U '-r; '.hose jn r. c:, ianee from ('hgrlest. n Wore Mi-s X. A. >fcQ-;een, Mrs. C. E.-Houston', Mrs. Mf.J. Ah tert. Mr*.. S.|l* J MfQwfeff.- ?? Arfe-t: - ^ Mf r. TVv.l. Miss'M... ' V>. .Motte end Mr.rtiink Edirohd$.