The Twin City star., 1914-02-13
/ THE GUARDIANS PLATFORM
Militant Boston Paper to Continue Agi.
| tation Against Race Segregation.


The Boston Guardians anti-segrega.
ton platform for 1914 reads as follows:
With separate schools, railroad cars,
waiting 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 forbidding the CO.
education of white and colored in private
and church schools in southern states:
with a 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-
sons as to the streets they live on. with
such laws applying even to places OF wor-
ship, is it not time for the over ten mil
lions Of our people to arise and demand
just legal treatment. the same as is 40
corded to other American citizens?
With laws denying persons the right to
live on their own property unless the ma
jority of people in the vicinity are Of their
race and color, with such law just pass
ed In Hyattsville Md; with definite fed
eral segregation of government employees
enforced and not yet undone at the ma
tional capital, with white citizens asso-
Citations there publicly declaiming for sep
arate cars, with bills introduced In con-
gress for such separations under a ma
tional Democratic administration Is 1t not
high time that colored Americans Of the
north set their faces against nonlegal
segregation?
1s 1t not high time that they adopted q
policy of opposing separate secular insti-
tutions for colored people? Is 1t not their
duty to demand that they be admitted into
places and institutions open for the pub
lie on the same terms as others? Is It not
time that they woke up and started In tc
abolish every colored public school in the
north? Is It not time that when an insti-
tuition is vital necessity colored people
begin to refuse separate branches and to
get along with a building that they can
establish as their own?
Is 1t not high 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 It would be their policy.
earnestly carried out. to oppose any sep
arate provision unless 1t is a positive and
absolute necessity, and then to have only
such q place Of their own and not one set
up by white people as a department Of
any general line of work? For Boston is
II not time we all cried shame on colored
people supporting the Shaw house for
colored? For Boston is 1t not high time
that the colored people increased the pres
ent opposition to the Shaw Settlement
house. avowedly started and run ''espe-
cially for colored people," and put It out
Of business?
To It not time, too, for the Crisis to real
ixe the harm Of helping on every separate
timcrow Y. M 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
fight against legal and federal segrega-
tion is weakened very materially by COM
promise upon nonlegal segregation in the
north and failure to contend radically for
the mixing Of the races in all institutions
for public benefit?
This is the Guardians question for all
individuals and organizations as at the
threshold Of 1914 we stand In the shadow
Of the oncoming tidal wave of extreme
color segregation In these United States
Of America.