The Appeal., 1915-05-08
THE NEW ABOLITION.

0acement OF Colored People came as
direct result of the Springfield riots
of 1908. After several conferences it
was organized and permanent head
quarters opened in November 1910.
The growth of the organization has
been phenomenal. Today it has fifty
branches throughout the country and
1000 members and the crisis, edited
by DR.. W. 3. B. Dubois has reached
a circulation of over $4,000
Inc platform Of the association is
broad but uncompromising. The off,
cial statement contains among other
thinks the following strong statement
and demands:
Inc national Association For the
Advancement of Colored People seeks
to uplift the colored men and women
OF this country by securing to them
the full enjoyment of their rights as
citizens, justice in all courts and equal
lty OF opportunity everywhere. It ia.
vors and aims to aid everv kind of
education among them save that which
teaches special privilege or preroga.
1--WE, class or caste. It recognizes
the national character of the race
problem and no sectionalism. It be-
heves in the upholding of the constitu.
tlon OF the United States and it's
amendments, in the spirit of Abraham
Lincoln. 1t upholds the doctrine Of
all men up and no man down. If
aohors Negro crime, but still more the
conditions which breed crime and
most OF all, the crimes committed bv
mobs in the mockery of the law or bv
individuals in the name of the law.
1t has no other belief than that the
pest way to uplift the colored man is
the best way to aid the white man to
peace and social content. It has no
other desire than exact justice and no
other motive than humanity"
The proposed program for the ad.
vance OF the colored people has been
laid down by DR.. W. E. B. Dubois:
1--WE need not waste time by seeking
10 deceive our enemies into thinking
mat we are going to be content with
a half loaf or by being willing to 1ull
our friends into false sense of our in.
olnerence and present satisfa action.
Inc American Negro demands eoua1i-
ty-polltical equality-and he is never
gong to rest satisfied with anything
less. He demands this in no spirit of
oraggadocio and with no obseonious
envy of others, but as an absolute
measure of self defense and the on1v
one that will assure to the darker
races their ultimate survival on earth
Ihe colored people must have in.
dustrlal freedom. Between the neon.
age OF the rural south, the oppression
or shreWd capitalists and the jealousy
OF certain trade unions the colored Ia
borer is the most exploited class in
the country, giving more hard toll for
less money than any other American
and with less voice in the conditions
OF his labor
sF'ln social Intercourse every effort is
being made today from the president
OF the United States and the so called
Church of Christ down to saloons and
bootblacks to- segregate, strangle and
spiritually starve the colored man so
as to give him the least possible
chance to know and share civilization.
The colored man must have power
the power Of men, the right to do to
Know to feel and to express that
knowledge, action and spiritual gift,
he must not simply be free from the
political tyranny Of white folk; he
must have the right to vote and to
rule over all the citizens to the extent
OF his proved foresight and ability.
he must have voice in the new in
dustrlal democracy which is building
and the power to see to it that his
children are not in the next generation
trained to be the mud stills of society.
ne must have the right to social in.
tercourse with his fellows.
There was time in the atomic in.
olVlouallstlc group when "social inter-
course" meant merely calls and tea
parties; today social intercourse
means theaters, lectures, organiza.
tlons, clubs, churches, excursions, ira.
vel, hotels-it means, in short, life.
10 bar group from methods of think
1ng' living and doing, is to bar them
from the world and bid them create a
new world-it is to cruelty them and
taunt them with not being able to
live"
DR.. Dubois suggest five practical
steps for action--frst, economic COOP
Grafton; second, a revival of art and
literature; third, political action;
fourth, education; fifth, organization.
For the accomplishment of all these
ENDS we must organize. Organization
among us already has gone far, but it
must go much further and higher. Or.
gan1zatlon Is sacrifice. It is sacrifice
OF opinions, of time, of work and of
money, but it is, after all, the cheapest
way OF buying the most priceless of
g11ts-freedom and efficiency. I thank
God that most Of the money that SUD
ports this association comes from