The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-04
PROMINENT CLUB WOMEN TO
PUT ST. LOUIS OUTRAGES
SQUARELY BEFORE THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Call Issued by Women of the District
of Columbia day of Prayer
Set-Miss Burroughs Leads
the Movement.
Special to the Star.

Special to the Star. =
Washington, D. c., July 6.-Grievcd
and heart-sick over the East st. Louis
children were shot down like rats and
their houses burned while United
States soldiers and policemen, sworn
to protect life and property, grinned
when asked why they did not stop
President Lincoln Heights Training
School for Girls at Washington,
D. C..
the slaughter, the women of this
city have requested Mrs. Mary B. Tai
bert, president of the National Asso-
citation of Colored Women, to come
to Washington at once and to call the
president of every other state fedora
tion to do the same.
These women are called to take
proper steps to put the question OF
lynching squarely before the Amer
lean people.
The organization has a membership
of over $4,000 of the most cultured
women of the race. Preparatory to
the coming of the leaders outside of
Washington, the women here are 60
ing ahead, quietly but determinedly, to
set in motion a wave of sentiment that
will become nationwide. The first
step has been taken. 1t is made in
the following Call to Prayer:
... TO YOUR KNEES
AND
DON'T STOP PRAYING UNTIL
THE VOICE OF NEGRO WOMEN is
HEARD AND THEIR PETITION FOR
THE SUPPRESSION OF MOB VIO-
LENCE is accepted by the American
people and lynchings and slaughter
Of human beings be made crime in
stead of thing to be "grinned" at
by soldiers under oath to defend the
honor of the country and in time of
uprisings to do their duty bravely.
THE WRONGS CAN AND MUST
BE RIGHTED.
The nearest way to the conscience
of the American people is by way Of
the Throne of God.
WE ARE GOING THAT WAY, and
then we are going to put our APPEAL
for justice and protection under the
law squarely up to the American peo-
pie.
We regret that this issue has been
thrust before us when we are with
the nations at war, BUT there will he
no WORLD DEMOCRACY" until the
burning of innocent women and
babies, aged men and innocent citi-
zens of color is taken from the list Of
Sports" of Civilized Americans.
WE PROPOSE to fight for our coun-
try to help against foes at home and
abroad, to conserve its food and fuel
supplies, AND WE BELIEVE that
this fight for Democracy" must begin
at Jerusalem lat home).
THEREFORE, the women of this
city will assemble for Prayer in the
Metropolitan Baptist Church Wednes-
day, July 18th, at a. m. The meet
ing will last just one hour. Every
woman and girl is urged to attend.
Those who cannot come are asked to
spend a part of the hour in family
and secret prayer.
Don't stop praying. God has prom
Used and He is true;
Don't stop praying,-Hell answer you.
LET EVERYBODY PRAY. Let
every preacher Lift up thy (his) voice
like trumpet, and show my people
their transgression and the house Of
Jacob their SINS"
Among the most active leaders, we
note the following women:
Miss Mamie H. Burroughs, Miss
Emma B. Hall, Miss Ida c. Plummer,
Miss Marie A. D. Madre, Mrs. Mary
E. Thompson, Mrs. Rosetta Lawson,
Mrs. Leila A. Pendleton, Mrs. Alma j.
Scott, Mrs. Rebecca J. Gray, Mrs.
Hannah McCarey, Mrs. G. Pelham
and DR.. Whipper.