The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-29
justice FOR NEGROES
REMARKABLE GATHER NC IN
NEW ORLEANS.
An Address by Booker T. Washington.
Better Treatment for the Neg.'o in
The Southern States.

More than five thousand white people
and as many negroes as could be
crowded into one of the galleries OF the
famous old Tulane Hall of New Or
leans gathered there to listen to an
address, by Booker T. Washington, the
famous leader of the negro race. Mr..
Washington came to New Orleans TO
speak at the General Missionary Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. Other splendid address,
es have been delivered during the ses-
sion of the conference, but none at
tracted more attention than that de-
livered by the famous negro president
of his equally famous institution, the
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Insti-
tute. Other speakers have been linn
tied, but no limit was placed upon his
address, and he spoke for more than
an hour, delivering the impassioned,
eloquent address that forced his audi
ence to applaud and laugh by turn
1t was a great opportunity for this
negro man to put before his hearers
the Negroes side of his case, and he took
full advantage of his opportunity even
as he did at Spartanberg, S. c., where
he also spoke at the invitation of the
white people of that city, under the
auspices of the management of Con-
verse College for white girls and Wof-
ford College for white boys, and also
before the students of WoffOrd College
the morning succeeding at Spartanburg
DR.. Carlisle the Venerable president of
Wofford College, presided at the public
meeting, and introduced Mr.. Washing
ton, DR. Carlisle was a member of the
South Carolina convention of secession
so his presence upon the platform UNI
der these circumstances was especially
significant of the change in public OPT
Mon which has taken place in the
South with regard to the negro. The
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this great representative of the negro
race who is doing so much not only to
help the neople of his own race, but the
people of the South as WELL in the solu-
ton of the complex and VeXing pro-
blems which face them.
In the course of his address he said
among other things:
ION two vital points l very much fear
that the black man has been and is
now greatly misunderstood. My own
life is largely spent among the rank
and file of my people and ] feel that /
know the feelings and ambitions Of my
race pretty we'll The intelligent ne
gro is not seeking what is termed social
equality, nor is he seeking to exercise
political control over white men. What
he is striving for is the opportunity to
earn living, to be sure of protection
of life and property and to be safe in
those privileges which are guaranteed
TO all citizens by the State andre deral
constitutions"
This was a wise thing for him to say
to his hearers, who came from every
portion of the South where the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church has dominion, as
well as from foreign lands. The whole
address was highly imprisoned APP
peal for the fullest justice for his race
and was warmly received by the great
number of those who listened to 1t.
This was the first time an invitation
of this character has ever been extend
ed to any colored man in the South and