The Denver star., 1914-01-24
THE GUARDIANS PLATFORM.
Militant Boston Paper to Continue Asi-
tation Against Race Segregation.

Militant Boston Paper to Continue A0i-
tation Against Race Segregation.
The Boston Guardians anti-segrega
lion platform for 1914 reads as follows:
With separate schools. railroad cars.
whiting rooms. street cars in the south: :
with exclusion of colored people from pub
lie parks and libraries in the south; with
exclusion of colored people from inns. res
taurants and places of public amusement
in the south: with laws forbdding the CO.
education of white and colored in private
and church schools in southern states
with Florida law forbidding white per-
sons from teaching colored children in
private schools. laws as far north as Bal
timore separating colored and white per-
IONS AS to the streets they live on. with
such laws applying even to places OF wor-
ship is 1: not time for the over ten mil
lions OF our people to arise and demand
Just legal treatment. the same as Is &C
corded to other American citizens?
With laws denying persons the right 10
live on their own property unless the ma
jority OF people in the vicinity are of their
race and color. with such a law just pass
ed in HyattsvilIe. Nd; with definite fed
eral segregation of government employees
enforced and not yet undone at the ma
tional capital, with white citizens asso-
sia atoms there pubr-ly declaiming for sep
arate cars. with bslls introduced in con-
gress for such separations under ma
uonal Democratic administration. is IL not
high time that coiored Americans OF the
north set their faces against nonlegal
segregation?
Is I: not high time that they adopted a
policy Of opposing separate SECULAR insti-
tutions for colored people? Is it not their
duty to demand that they be admitted into
places and Institutions open for the pub
lie on the same terms others? Is it not
time that they woke up and started in TO
abolish every colored public school in the
north. Is II not time that when an insti
tuition is vital necessity colored people
begin to refuse separate branches and to
get along with n building that they can
establish as their own?
Is 4; not b&sh time that all the colored
people OF the north got together and de-
cided that. except for their churches. a
proper number OF which are now a neces-
sity. hereafter IL would be their policy.
earnestly carried out. to oppose any sep
arate provision unless II is a positive and
absolute necessity. and then to have only
such a place Of their own and not ono set
up by white people 4 n department of
any general line of work. For Boston is
II not time we all cried shame on colored
people supporting the Shaw houss for
colovear For Boston Is Il not high time
that the colorsd people increAsed sho Srss-
ent opposition to the Shaw Settlement
house. avowediy started and run "espe-
cialiy for colored people" and put II out
OF business
Is Il not time. too. for the Crisis to real
fze the harm OF helping on every separate
jncrow Y. NJ c. A. and settlement house
In the north and for the National Associ-
alton For the Advancement of Colored
People to realize the harm now OF man
ming its committees and branches with
supporters of separation in philanthropy
In the north and to perceive that their
Hght nGainst legal and federal scgrega-
ton is weakened very materially by COM
promise upon nonlegal segregation in the
north and failure TO contend rAAieAlly for
for public bcneHtg
This Is the Guardians question for all
individuals and organizations as at the
threshold of 1914 we stand in the shadow
of the onconinG tidal wave Of extreme
color segregation in these United States
of America