The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-14
SECOND BIENNIAL MEETING OF
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE
STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE
AND HISTORY.

AND HISTORY.
At the close of this the fourth year
o fits existence the Association Tor the
Study of Negro Life and History VIII
onven in biennial session in wash
ineton, D. c., on the Nth and 18th OF
June at the 18th street Branch T. M
C. A. The reports for the yea Will De
heard. new officers will be elected, and
the plans for the coming year will be
formulated.
The chief interest of the meeting
however, will center around the IN
forming addresses on the Negro IN the
World War by julius Rosenwald'
George Foster Peabody, Emmett j.
Scott. George E. Haynes, w. I. b.
Williams, Ralph w. Tyler, James H.
billiard and Thomas ]. Jones. Every
phase of the war history which the
Negro helped to make will be treated.
Returned soldiers will be invited to
take part in the discussions.
The Association will work out also
the plans by which it will collect data
TO write a scientific History of the Ne
gro in the World War just as soon as
the treaty of peace is signed and docu-
ments now inaccessible because OF
the proximity to the conflict become
available. The cooperation of all seek
ers after the truth is earnestly solicit
ed.
During the past two years tse Asso-
citation has been able to move stadlly
forward in spite of the difficulties mol
dent to the war. The subscription to
the Journal for Negro History have
gradually increased and a number OF
ph~ilanthropists have literally contrl-
buted to the fund now being used to
extend the work into all parts OF the
country. This work is being done by
a Field Agent who organizes clubs for
the study OF Negro life and history and,
through local agents, sells the pdblica-
lions of the Association and soliclts
subscriptions to the Journal of Negro
History.
In addition to publishing for four
years the Journal of Negro History, a
repository of truth now available ill
bound form, the Association has
brought out also, Slavery in Kentucky,
an interesting portraiture of the insti-
tuition in that State; The Royal Ad'
venturers Trading into Africa, II OF
the best studies of the early slave
trade: and A Century of Negro Migra.
ton, the only scientific treatment OF
this movement hitherto published.
The circulation of these publications
has been extensive. Theey ar e in
North America, South America, Eu-
rope, Asia and Africa; they reach more
thar three hundred college and public
libraries; they are found in all Negro
homes where learning is an objective;
they are used by most social workers
to get light on the solution of the
problems of humanity; they are refer
red to by students and professors con-
Quoting classes carrying on research;
and they reach the members of the
cabinet and the President of the Unit
ed States.
The officers of the Association are
R. E. Park, President; ]. E. Moorland,
Secretary-Treasurer and c. G. Wood
son, Director of Research and Editor;
who. with julius Rosenwald, George
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John R. Hawkins, R. E. Jones, A. L,
Jackson, Thomas Jesse Jones, Sir Ed
mund Walker, Irving ,Metcalf, L.. Hol
lingsworth Wood, Moorfield Storey and
j. G. Phelps Stokes, constitute the
Executive Council.
Among the persons who support this
movement are: Harold H. Swift, Cap
italitt; Oswald Garrison Willard, Pub
Usher of the New York Evening Post;
A. S. Frissell, Banker; William G
Wilcox, Philanthropist; Morton d
Hull, Statesman; Frederick L. Hoff
man, Statistician and Author; Franz
Trumbull, aRilway President; Cleve
land H. Dodge, Capitalist; Ansor
Phelps Stokes, Secretary of Yale Uni
yersity; James F. Jameson, Editor O
the American Historical Review
Henry Churchill King, President O
Oberlin College; Jacob H. Schiff, Bank
er; r. R. Motion, Principal of Tuskege'
Institute; ]. w. E. Bowen, Cannon
Theological Seminary; William j
Schieffelin, Philanthropist; Frank O
Lowden, Governor of Illinois; Bishol
r. A. Carter, C. M. E. Church; Bishol
J. Albert Johnson, A. NJ. E. Church
Bishop George w. Clinton, A. M. E, Z
Church; A. H. Stone, Historian; Mrs
L. Hammond, Writer; George G.. Hal
Social Worker; J. Stanley Durkee
President of Howard University; Mis-
Helen Adams Keller, Writer, leaf an
blind: J. G. Schmidlapp, Capitalist
and ]. A. Jeffrey, Manufacturer.
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