New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-26
FOR THE COLORED WOMAN.
SPEAKERS AT THE AMERICAN MISSION
AIRY MEETING TELL OF HER NEEDS
AND HER PROGRESS.

woman's meeting occupied yesterday after
moons session az the annual meeting OF the
American Missionary Association, which closed in
Springfield. Mass last evening. The speakers were
Mss D z. Emerson, OF this city; Mrs ". NJ.
WelTnan, Of Oklahoma; Mrs. 4. 1. Hoyt. Of Ten
nessee; Mrs Truman J. Backus. of Brooklyn;
Miss Nettie Crump, an alumna OF Fisk Univer
sity. Nashville, Tenn, g teacher for many years
IN the service OF the association and one Of the
Jubilee singers and Mrs Mary Church Terrell Of
Washington president Of the National Association
OF Colored Women
Miss Emerson secretary Of the woman's Home
Missionary Society. Of this city, reported that
81 the year 81. 673 IS had been received from
womel's societies. and that forty-four mission
aries appointed in the year are representing
al parts o. the American Missionary Associations
field from Alaska 10 Porto Rico.
Miss Crumps subject was Student Life and AZ
tervard" and IN the course OF her address she said
The majority Of my people are densely ignorant
and in order 70 destroy the ignorance and save
them
Go with ne into the rural district church. and
We sha-l mo ~ the pulpit q man lLlterate and
- Is1- $500 or etl7-4ss Iis+e5S !. ii 80
mon preached from the text, God Gin His Only
Fergort'n Son Dat Us MoUt Have Eternal Life"
The man strove 10 impress the people with the
fact that Christ 2 'feTgOttn'
In the schOolroom we shall md acting as teacher
and 50 devoid Of the kn0wiedge Of reaching it,
and thus Of the good results OF true training. that
save those who have worked among these mis-
! went into a, home once IN one Of these ig-
norant communities and talked with mother
which American Missionary Associa-
non school ABOUT thirty mics away after nay
she raised her head and, with one Of the most
steruly sad expressions / ever saw said: We'll.
7 dun bout 'cided dat mar chiIuns I'd better come
u as did. Book larnin amt no count"
Pretty soon after this 1ruitless intervlew |
leaned that the people IN that has, pa ss had been
Because OF MS sin, one house was then wrapped
<- 'IIS + 81 n - l ~ m ast-5,tfio1
an ndivfdaaI be trained from infancy in order that
Indeed, = has been said by many that this mould
years prior 10 MS birth. What is true Of an indi-
During these days Of discussion and confusion
concerning the negro Il seems TO me that the 1act
that my people make rnistakes-this they do natu-
rally since the foundation OF their training, IN
stead Of being years Of culture and refinement IS
makes mistakes: but it does seem to ma that the
people should wonder Il MS rapid progress His
tory has yet 10 tell Us or a race that has done
The ignorance which is now found among among the
eoloreo people does not mean that they nave pen
have had. nor does II mean that those who have
conscientious: but Il does mean, my friends. that
Il requires money and more workers 70 train
millions When my people were liberated they
were four millions: now We are ten millions
progress Of ColoTed Women was MIS- 1eFfeI :
theme she said IN Part:
To use thought Of the illustrious Frederick
Douglas. Il judged by the depths from which
they nave come rather than ny The heights 70
which those blessed with centuries Of opportunities
nave attained, cOlOred women need not hang tneir
nescs II shame Consider, il you VIII the almost
lnsCrEl0uEJable obstacles which have cOutronted
oolored women in their effort educate and Guilt
dare assert, not bOastfully. but with pardonable
pride, ! hope, that the progress they have made
alc the work they have accomplished viii bear a
favorable comparison AZ least with that or tnelr
more fortunate sisters. from whom the opportunity
o. acquiring knowledge and the means Of sell
culture have been entirely withheld For not
en4y are co-Cred women with ambition ana asp!Ta-
ton handicapped on account Of their sex, but they
are everywhere baftied and Knocked on account OF
their race
Desperately and continuously they forced 10
1ghr that opposition, born OF cruel, unreasonable
prejudice Wnich neither their merit their ne
cessity seems able 10 subdue. Not only because
women. disbursement and disappointment
meeting them every turn. AYOcations opened
ana opportunities offered 10 their more favored Sis
tffs have been and to-day closed and barred
against them. While those Of the dominant race
nave variety q trades and pursuits from when
they may choose. The woman through whose veins
ene drop Of African blood IS known 10 flow IS lin
sauons II which col0red women may engage and
. poor II the pay IN consequence that only the
lie
Through the National Association Of Colored
y omen. which formed by the union OF TWO
tsrge organizations in July. 1885. much good has
-Seo done IN the past and more WI Dc accom-