The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-03
NEGROES TO EXHIBIT
WILL HAVE A SHOW AT CHARLES
TON EXPOSITION.
SPECIAL BUILDING SET ASIDE.
ROCKER WASHINGTON AT HEAD Oh
DEPARTMENT.

He Issues Strong Appeal to the
Colored People of the Country to
Make the Negro Exhibit the Rest
the Negro Has Made Since Free
dom-SDcaks of CharIeston's Lib
eral Treatment of the Negro ana
the Fact That the Work Upon the
buildings Is being Chiefly Done
by Negro Labor.
Charleston, $. c.. May 2.-Booker t.
Washington has been placed at the head
of the negro department of the South car
DINA Interstate and West Indian Exposi-
ton, and has issued the following ad.
dress:
ITO the Colored People of the United
States: The South Carolina Interstate and
West Indian Exposition promises to ba a
most important event in the history Of
the South, and especially beneficial to tho
interests of the negro. The exposition
is TO open in the historic city of Charles
ton, S. c., Dec. /, 1901.
From the first the promoters of this
enterprise have taken the deepest IN
terest i'm providing an opportunity for
the colored people of the United States to
exhibit the progress they have made since
their freedom.
A special building on one of the most
attractive and prominent parts of thu
grounds has been set aside for the use ~
the colored people for their exhibit. II is
earnestly desired that it be filed with the
products OF the negro race representing
every section of the country.
The Exposition will be In no sense a
local or state Exposition. but national In
Its character and scope It is the desire
OF those in charge of the negro depart-
ment to make the negro exhibit the most
complete and satisfactory of any exhibit
the race has made since its freedom. The
aim is to secure not a great quantity. but
a select quality.
Those in charge of the negro depart
ment are especially anxious to secure ex-
hioits representing the progress of the
race along the following lines: Agricul-
ture. mechanics social culture and do
inestic life education. morals and reli-
glon, womans work and arts as w~,I -
other relations OF life.
THE cost of the building as we'll q.
other expenses in connection with secur-
ing and Installing the negro exhibits has
peen guaranteed by the officials of the
Exposition, but we do not as a race
want some one to bear all the expenses
IN connection with the negro department.
and the wish Is earnestly expressed that
the race contribute something. however
small towards the expenses of the negro
exhibit. Such gifts may be offered
through correspondence with the commits
sioners, or they may be made to the Sec
retary and field agent
AS Is already widely known. Charles
ton is one of the most liberal cities in
the country so far ais concerns the treat
ment of the negro, and everyone visit
ing charleston or making an exhibit will
De sure of liberal and kindly treatment.
BY far the greater proportion OF the
common as well as the highest class OF
skilled labor IN connection with the erec-
ton of the various buildings is being
done by negroes.
THE following officials have been an
pointed for the negro department.:
Executive Committee-E. A, Law
renee. s. w. Bennett. William Ingliss.
Dr. Thomas T.. Miller, Rev. N. B. Ster-
ritz, Rev. j. l.. Dart and W. j. Parker.
Thomas Jefferson Jackson is field
agent and secretary.
This exposition brings to the race a
rare opportunity to show the world what
1t Is accomplishing in every line of hu-
man progress. and we believe the oppor-
tunity viii Jbe utilized to the fullest ex-
tent"