Evening star., 1898-12-28
AFRO AMERICAN COUNCIL
Prominent Oolored Leaders Will Consider
Important Subjects.
Program of the Sessions of the Con-
vention-Papers to BE Read
and Discussed.

Prominent colored men from all over the
country are in Washington for the purpose
of taking part in the deliberations of the
National Afro-American Council, which
will meet tomorrow morning at Metropol-
itan Baptist Church, R street near 18th,
and continue in session through Friday,
with special religious service Sunday.
Bishop Alexander Walters, the president,
will preside
The conference will be opened tomorrow
| morning by an address of welcome from
President John B. Wight of the board of
District Commissioners, to which Rev. DR..
]. NJ Henderson of New York will respond
The address Of the president, Bishop Wal
ters, will follow. The rest of the morning
session will be devoted to the reading and
discussion Of paper by Bishop Abraham
Grant of Pennsylvania, on 1.-THE Power of
Organization, and one by Congressman
George w. Murray of South Carolina on
Our Progress in Business"
Other Papers to BE Discussed.
The evening session tomorrow will be
taken up with addresses by George H.
White of North Carolina on Protection of
American Citizens" and by Ida Wells Bar
rett of Illinois on Mob Violence and An
archy, North and South" Both addresses
will be exhaustively discussed.
The first address Friday morning will be
delivered by Rev. DIR. E. c. Morris of Ar
kansas, president of the National Baptist
Association. who will consider The Church
as Factor in Solving the Race Problem in
America and other papers will be read,
as follows:
~ he Influence of the Press" by Editor E.
E. Cooper of the Colored American; THE
Champions of Human Liberty-How Shall
We Honor Them by Magnus L. Robinson
of Virginia; Representation on the
Bench by r. S. Smith of this city: In
dustrial Education" by President Booker
T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute;
Higher Education" by Prof. Kelly Miller
| of Howard University. and The Negro in
the Department of Letters by Paul Laur-
renee Dunbar, the poet of Ohio.
All these papers will be discussed, as will
be those presented at the closing session
Friday evening, which will be as follows:
Our Place in the Politics of the Country" "
by w. A. Pledger of Georgia; Work
Among Women,'' by Mrs. Jesse Lawson,
president of the Women's Auxiliary Asso-
ciation; THE Negro in the Wars of the
Nation, by ex-senator P. B. S. Pinchback
of Louisiana, and Our Economic Status
by I. Thomas Fortune of New York An
address to the country will be delivered by
Judson w. Lyons, register of the treasury
as closing feature, during which addresses
will be made, as follows: Lincoln" John
F. Green; ~. s. Grant" James Lewis;
yohn % Brown, Prof. George William Cook
W.. 1,
John NJ Langston,' r. s. Smith, "B K.
Bruce Prof. R. H. Terrell; George W.
Pullman Daniel Murray
Prominent Participants
Those who will participate in the discus
sions besides those already named will in
elude Rev. w. L. Taylor. Mrs Victoria
Earle Matthews of New York, ]. C. Napier,
Tennessee; Rev. G. w. Graham, Virginia
John r. Lynch. Mississippi; A. B. Cosey,
New Jersey; Rev. ]. 7. Carpenter, Virginia
Bishop H. NJ. Turner, Georgia. E. H. Nor
ris. Illinois; H. C. C. Ashwood. Pennsyl-
vania; Bishop B. w. Arnett, Ohio; Bishop
J. w. Hood, North Carolina; Bishop T. B.
Tanner, Missouri; A. H. Grimke, Massa-
chusetts; T. J. Mention, PENNSYLVANIA: John
G. Dancy, North Carolina; Bishop H. l..
Holsey, Georgia; Chris J. Perry Phladel-
phia; II. A Clark, Philadelphia: John G.
Jones, Illinois; F. D. Lee, Virginia; J. G.
Asbury. Pennsylvania E. E. Brown Mas
sachusetts; DR.. J. N. Johnson, Texas; Miss
Lucy c. Laney. Georgia: Prof. James NJ
Gregory. New Jersey; Prof. G. w. Hays,
Virginia; VIM. H. Ferriss, Massachusetts;
G. N. Grsham, Missouri; Prof. w. s. Scar
borough. Wilberforce University; I. Garland
Penn, Virginia; J. T. C. Newsom, Texas,
and a number of others.
An executive session of the officers of the
organization was to have been held this
morning at Galbraith Church, on 9th street
northwest, near NJ, but was postponed until
| this evening.