The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-11-11
BLACK AND WHITE TEA.

The following is from a recent issue
of the Chicago American:
Society women and clubwomen
of Chicago had a new topic of con-
versation today-a topic far more in
teresting than the Vanderbilts at the
horse show-Mrs. Henry W. Magee's
black and white tea
THE tea, the first Of a series of
race-equality functions, has aroused
storm of comment in Chicago. The
receptions and teas, which will con-
tinue throughout the winter, were
planned by the Frederick Douglas
Center Club, with the object OF &C.
menting friendship and kindly feeling
between white and negro women.
The first 'black-and-white tea
was a great success, according to
the promoters. Today when the de-
tails were made public the storm of
comment broke over Chicago wom-
ems clubs and found the women of
Chicago divided on the question.
THE first of these novel functions
unprecedented in the social history
of the country-was held at an Engle-
wood white womar's hore, and Of
the 10 guests present II were negroes
and Z Caucasians.
The hostess, Mrs. Henry ". Ma
gee, wife Of local lawyer, is soci-
ETY. woman and Caucasian. The
servants who waited on negro and
white guests with equal Difference
were white, superintendent by the
hostess daughter.
"The 10 women sat together i'll the
parlors and chatted cordially. Mem
bers of each race made little speeches,
breathing love for each other and
confident hope for closer social, bust
ness and political relations.
They sat down at the same table
and broke bread and slipped tea to-
gether.
This astounding social function in
Chicago, carrying with it, as it does,
the great national problem of race
equality and the color line, bids fair
to outrival in interest the memorabl.
dinner given by President Roosevelt
to Booker 7. Washington.
For the social affair at the Magee
residence marked the actual launch
ing by resolute Chicago society
women, imbued with friendship for
the negro, of Il national movement
to bring the black and the white
races into close and equal relations.
1.-THE function. which was held in
the beautiful residence OF Mrs. Magee,
1922 Union avenue, seemed to the
participants most happy affair.
THE crusade, of which it marked
the beginning, is organized in the
form Of a society called the Frederick
Douglas Center. This society was
founded last April, but its first social
affair celebrated the first 'women's
meeting
"Mrs. Celia Parker Woolley, white,
is the founder and president of the
society, and its headquarters until a
permanent institution can be opened
on Wabash avenue, near Thirteenth
street, on the lines of a social settle
ment, are in her home, 1876 East
forty-fourth street.
"The declared object Of the Freder-
ick Douglas Center, in few words, is
to help the negroes and bring them
into closer friendly relations with the
white population. OF the seven di-
rectors four are negroes and three
whites. The membership of 80 in
cludes some prominent professional
persons of Chicago.
Mrs. Mage. the white hostess;
Mrs. Woolley, the white president, of
the society; Mrs. Ida B. Wells Bar
nett, n colored leader in the move
ment, and Mrs Elizabeth Lindsay
Davis, a colored club organizer and
director in the new crusade, received
the guests on their arrival at the
Magce home
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Smith from the First Congressional
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