Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-10-02
WANTS HIM TO BRING SUIT
Dr. Booker n. Washington's
Chickens"
Cleveland. Ohio Gazette.)

cleveland. Ohio Gazette)
Last Saturday DR.. Booker T.
Washington was refused accommO-
dation in the leading hotel of Akron,
the "Butchell," and one of his Ohio
chickens came home to roost.' For.
years the we'll known apostle Of in
dustrial education has been coming
20 this state and in his lectures and
speeches. telling derisive and very
harmful niger" stories Gin the
face OF our repeated protests) and
advising both our people and all
others that Negroes" should not
"go into public places where they
are not wanted" =" until now many
whites have accepted his advice and
are acting on 10 with the result that
not only has the Y. NJ. G. A. Of this
city closed its doors 20 AfrO-Ameri-
cans con Booker T. Washington's 8
advice. as a leading trustee of the
association told the Rev. Or. Charles
Bundy and the editor OF The Gazette
several years ago), but also hun
dreds OF Ohio hotels. dining-rooms
and other places OF entertainment. |
amusement. etc. At Akron. last !
Saturday. DR.. Washington was but !
II he IS the national" leader many |
white people and some misguided /
trucking Negroes" would have
him. DR. Washington VIII resent the !
Akron insult to his manhood, citi- !,
zenship and the race. by entering
suit against the Butchell hotel pro- I
prietor. under our Ohio civil rights 7
law, and punish him for the good /
A..
Ohio and the entire country This 4
much ne owes not only 10 himself 4
and it. but particularly 90 the boys /
and girls he and thousands OF 9TH |
ers in and out of this state I'm this /
country. are trying 20 rear properly.
His peTniiious @doctrine or surrcu-
der" will not do and his Akron ex- I
perience IS an Illustration and exem- !
plifcation. that ought 90 make even i
him and his "dough-faced" and \
trucking friends, black and white ,
awaken TO a fun realization Of the /
fact. Our franchise. civil and all \
other rights in this country are fast !
slipping away from as and none are |
being regained because OF a crimi- 1
nal failure 90 fight for those lost !
and 90 retain those we stiu enjoy
az least in part that never character !
lied any other quasi-intelligent peo-
pie in the history Of the world. II
is such culpable. weakening and dis
gusting leadership" as Booker n.
Washington and his friends. white
and black, have sought so actively in !
recent years 20 saddle on our peo-
pie. that has resulted in racial
retrogression along a civil and fran
Chise rights line as Will all but stag
ger any Intelligent honest and hon
orable man OF any race VINO will
take the trouble TO familiarize HIM
sell with the facts. IL is indeed a
sad very sad condition of affairs.
one that is positively inexcusabIe.
TOO II our people possess one-half |
the intelligence We boast Of. Not
withstanding the fact that we have
this national leader" five or six
national organizations, thousands
upon thousands of university and
coAeSe teachers, graduates and
wealthy men and women, one cannot
point 20 a single case in the United
States supreme court 10 test the con
stitutionality of a single one OF the
eight or nine southern state Ndisfran-
chisement laws, or 10 test the con
stitutionaiity OF southern state Jim
Grow" car laws, even so far as they
effect Interstate passengers; or any
enort whatever in northern states To
regain civil rights in public places
lost because we will not in most in
stances use laws like our Ohio civil
rights law, and others, passed par
ticularly for our benefit If we are
race of "Washingtons, or a race
of mOngrels, as Bishop Henry NJ.
Turner OF the great A. NJ. r. church
is alleged to have termed US, there
seems 10 be no better way of proving
1t than for Booker Washington 10
refuse to sue that Akron hotel pro-
prietor, and for the rest of the race
to go on sleeping the sleep Of Grim
inal neglect OF their most vital rights
and interests until the day soon ar
riyes when Afro-Americans will be
reduced 10 the plane OF the Russian
serf and the American slave of years
ago, one practically devoid of all
citizen and manhood rights For
Gods sake" for your own and your
famiiy's sake as well as for the
races sake, Booker T. Washington
and Negroes" of America, WAKE
UP, and act like intelligent MEN
and WOMEN so unfortunately placed
and situated, ought to. There are
not many more years left in which