The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-02-02
CITY LEAGUE
ORGANIZED
CITIZENS JOIN HANDS
In SOCIAL UPLIFT.
Branch of National
League.
The Watchword of the. Organization
is "Get Together for Mutual Up
neutrality-suspicious. of Many
Organizations Join in.

After several meetings of repre-
sentatives Of the teachers associa-
ton, the doctors academy, the min
listers alliances and the women's
clubs, together with a number of
other citizens interested, the Nash
willie League on Conditions Among
Negroes completed its organization
and laid out a plan of social work
for Nashville at it's meeting last
Tuesday afternoon at ST. John A. M.
E. Church.
The meaning of this new develop
ment for social uplift may be clearly
drawn from the objects stated in it's
constitution as follows:
(1) To protect and befriend Ne
groes who are strangers in Nashville;
(2) to connect them with homes and
homelife, with church and church.ife,
and with wholesome recreation; (3)
to promote facilities of employment
and to encourage vocational train
ing where needed; (4) to promote
probationary and preventive care for
men, women and children; (5) to i'm
prove housing, sanitary and neigh
borhood conditions; (6) to seek pro-
vision for any other needs of Ne
groes in Nashville; (O to bring
about union and cooperation among
existing agencies for social better
ment in Nashville; (S) to cooperate
in every way with the National
League On Urban Conditions Among
Negroes in studying and working to
improve social and shrdl 60 eta ?h
improve economic and social con-
ditions among Negroes in Nashville
and other cities, and in securing and
training of Negro social workers.
The central idea of the organiza-
ton is cooperation for betterment of
conditions among our people, 1t is
expressed in the slogan Get to-
gether for mutual uplift." But those
who have taken part in starting the
organization believe in putting their
words into deeds. Already the Bap-
fist, the A. M. E. and M. e. ministers
alliances, the Rock City Medical
Academy, the Principals Association,
the Phyllis Wheatley Club and the
Arts and Crafts Association have sig
nified their intention to cooperate
by selecting delegate members for
the Nashville League. Besides del
egate members any person interested
who wishes to do something to carry
out the objects of the league may
ioin the movement by application to
the Membership Committee, of which
committee Prof. G. T. Randalls is
Chairman.
The following officers and members
of an executive committee have been
elected for the first year: Prof. Geo.
E. Haynes, President; Mrs. A. B.
Carter, LIST Vice-President; Mr. ]. e.
Hurt, 2nd Vice-Presideut; Prof. 7.
B. Hardeman, Secretary; DR., A. M.
Townsend, Treasurer. Miss Fannie
M. Banks, Assistant Treasurer.
Other members of the Executive Com
mittee are: DR.. c. II Clark, Rev.
R. T Weatherby, Mrs. G. L. Jackson,
Miss E. j. Cockrill, Prof ]. B. Wat
son and Rev. S. l.. Howard.
At all of the meetings those attend
ing as well as the officers have been
one in the sentiment that what Nash
Vile needs is for her colored people
to unite for work, not talk, to save
their own.
Already committees for definite
pieces of work have begun taking
steps for three things Immediately:
to Join in the effort to secure a Car
negie Library; to call together the
men teachers in Sunday-schools and
day schools as well as Sunday
school superintendent pastors, ply
sicians and others interested in our
BOYS and to lay before them plans
to help save our boys and to try to
remedy the conditions among. so
many school children who are re-
ported by the principals as coming
to school hungry
The plans of the organization in
clude further: 1. Improvement OF
housing conditions in colored neigh
borhoods. 2. Development of play
grounds and recreation facilities.
8. Provisions for occupational train
ing is night schools.
The local organization mas grown
out of a national movement known
as the National League on Urban
Conditions Among Negroes, with
headquarters in New York City and
branches in Philadelphia, Baltimore,
St. Louis, and several other cities.
The starting of the work in Nash
Vile is in line with steps that have
already been taken for similar or
carnations in Memphis, Atlanta,
Ga. and Louisville, Ky.
The object Of the National Urban
League IS, first, to promote and do
constructive and preventive social
work for improving the social and
economic conditions among Negroes
in urban centers; second, to bring
about coordination and cooperation
among existing agencies in urban