The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-19
SP|NCARN READY
FOR LONG TOUR
VIII Make Strong Campaign
+ Against Race Segregation
new ABOLITION MOVEMENT.

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Former Columbia University Professor
and Head Of New York Branch Ma.
tlonaI Advancement Association to
Wage Battle For Rights Of coiored
AmSrloans-Bsars Own Expenses.
By N. BARNETT DODsON.
New Professor j. q. Spin
garn, formerly of Columbia university,
New York, and now president Of the
New York branch of the National As
sociation For the Advancement Of Col
ored People, will begin tour Of the
middle west Jan. l In the interests Of
that association. for the purpose Of
protesting against the segregation Of
the races In the federal bureaus in
Washington and of stimulating the up
lift of the race In other ways. .a
DR.. Spingarn is one. Of the most ar
dent and uncompromising white cham
pions Of the civil rights of the Ameri-
can Negro, and his western tour should
certainly help to crystalline the nation
al conscience against segregation. jim
crowism. lynchfng and all other dis
advantages under which colored peo-
pie In this country now suffer. ..-~
Professor Spingarn's first speech will
be- delivered at Detroit on the even
ing Of Jan.H s. and he will then visit
indianapolis. Quincy. Chicago. Kansas
City. Topeka. st. Louis and other cit.
les, He will make the entire tour at
his own expense. He has had distin
guished career as u scholar and pub
licist. For twelve years he was pro-
fessor Of comparative literature In Co
lnmbia university. retiring in 1911.
sHe Is the author 0f numerous books,
some Of which have been translated
into foreign languages. and he Is also
the author of a volume Of verse, '"The
New Hesperides and Other Poems" )"
which has attracted much attention
IN this country as well as in England.
He has been interested In public at
fairs for many years. having been the
Republican candidate for member of
congress in the Eighteenth New York
district in 1908, when he received the
highest Endorsements from President
Roosevelt, Secretary Of State Elihu
Root and other distinguished states
men.
His services to the cause of the
American Negro have been especially
important He is an ardent exponent
Of the new abolitionism, which aims
b bring to the cause Of the rights of
col0red people the same devoted en-
thusiasm which characterized the old
er abolitionism Of William Lloyd Gar
rison and Wendell Phillips. As dele
gate to the first Progressive national
convention at Chicago In August, 1912,
Do attracted national attention to this
new movement by his gallant effort to
commit the party to plank In its
platform which would open the door
Of hope to the 100000 colored pec-
pie of the United States. ..a
The National Association For the
Advancement of Colored People, Of
which Professor Spingarn will be the
personal representative during his
western tour, is an organization COM
posed Of members Of both races, with
headquarters In New York and with
branches in over twenty cities. in
Guding Boston. Providence, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore. Washington, Chicago,
Detroit, indianapolis, st. Louis. Kan
sas City. Topeka. Los Angeles and
Tacoma.
The president Is Moorfeld Storey,
the distinguished Boston lawyer. and
among It's directors are Oswald Gar
rison Willard. Jane Addams, DR.. c. q.
Bentley. Mary White Ovington. Pro
fessor J. E. Spingarn. Charles Edward
Russell. Dr. w. e. b Du Bois, Rev.
John Hayne. Holmes. william English
Walling and Bishop Walters. The Of
0cial organ Of the association Is the
Crisis, a monthly magazine edited by
DR.. Du Bois. which now has circula.
ton of $4,000 copies. distributed In ev-
cry state of the onion and In over
ten foreign countries About 20 per
cent Of the readers Of this paper are
white and 30 per cent colored. al.
though, Of course, no exact figures
along these lines are possible to as
certain. E...s