The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-11-08
NEIGHBORHOOD
UNION FORMED
RESIDENTS OF THE NORTH END
ORGANIZE.
Form Neighborhood Union for Com
munity Betterment-Rranch of
the Nashville League on
q Conditions Among
Negroes.

Inc residents of Northwest Nash
vile are aroused and are Joining
themselves together to do what they
can as united community for the
betterment Of the istrict. An en-
thusiastic meeting was held last Mon
day night at Pleasant Green Baptist
Church and neighborhood Union
was formed as a permanent united
branch of the Nashville League on
Conditions Among Negroes.
The Nashville League was organ
lied last January as a movement to
unite all the social betterment activ.
tiles of the colored people of the city
Last summer it conducted a Home
Beautiful Movement by Offering prizes
in the Third and Fourteenth wards
OF the city. This has now been fol
lowed up by an organization Of this
Neighborhood Union in the North
T'nd which is the first branch in d
4 IN ito organize in similar way
ea-h of the Negro neighborhoods Or
the city. 1t is the effort to have the
residents of each Of the neighbor
hoods come together in united eff
fort to better the conditions of their
own neighbolho d. Each of these
branch unions will have representa-
tives in a central executive body of
the Nashville League which covers the
entire CITY,
This Nashville League has also
this week opened a kindergarten in
the Fisk Flats corner Eighteenth
avenue and Cedar street, to reach the
large number of needy children in
the district bounded by Twelfth and
Twentieth avenues, North, and Pat
terson and Cedar streets. Already the
enrolment has taxed the capacity of
the quarters provided for the kinder
garten. 1t is the plan Of the league
develop work in this locality un-
til it will reach into the homes of the
neighborhood for social uplift
At the formation of the Neighbor-
b0od Union last Monday night the fol
lowing four committees were named
to take up the pieces of bettermenr
indicated: On Street Lights dnd Sew
erage, ON Streets and Police Patrol,
on Public School Buildings and Play
grounds and on Home Beautifying.
A quartet of Fisk students was
present at the meeting and enliyened
the exercise with beautiful Jubilee
and College songs. A short consti-
tuition was adopted and the Union ad-
iourned to meet Monday night, No
vember IS, at the Pleasant Green
Baptist Church to elect officers and
take up other important matters. The
Nashville League on Conditions
Among Negroes is a branch of Ma
tional organization which has devel-
oped social work among colored peo-
pie in the cities of the United States
This national body is known as the
National League on Conditions
Among Negroes, with headquarters in
New York City. 1t is the comprehen
sive purpose stated as follows:
ITO bring about coordination and
cooperation among existing agencies
and organizations for improving the
Industrial, economic, social and spir
itual conditions of Negroes and to de
velop other agencies and organiza-
tions where necessary to secure and
train Negro social workers; to make
studies of the industrial economic
social and spiritual conditions among
Negroes and in general to promote
encourage, assist and engage in any
and all kinds of work for improving
the industrial, economic social ant
spiritual conditions among Negroes
In carrying out this object the Ma
tional League has already established
- vNrsir,nfpaI oiffeG
of the country and has plans on foot
for similar work in other cities TIC
meet the demand for skilled Leaders
in this work the National League is
affiliated with Atlanta Baptist Col
lege, Atlanta, Ca; Talladega Col
lege. Taladega, Ala, and Fisk Univer
sity in developing courses Of study
I which will prepare the best minds
4 for careers as expert social workers
To such graduates of the Negro col
leges as sho w special fitI ess for this
work. the League furnishes fellow
ships for further work and practical
exper' ence in New York and Chicago
Dun < the past year two college
graduates were trained at the New
York School of Philanthropy. One
of these, a graduate of Fisk Universi
ty. Miss Ellie A. Walls, is now in the
city for few months working in co
operation with the Nashville League
and with the Department of Socia
Science at Fisk University
Some of the officers Of the loca
league in Nashville are DR.. George
r. Haynes, president; Prof. T. B
Hardiman, Secretary; DR.. A. M
Townsend, Treasurer.