The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-11
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treasury before it makes its appropria
ton for it's educational development
but only how much needed for the ful
equipment of it's future citizenship. In
ability to contribute to the common
wealth, the greater the need for con
tIibution from the commonwealth. Ac
coding to this principle, and i'll this
spirit. we would dedicate ourselves tc
the task of more thorough, intelligent
and liberal provision for the education
of the Negro race. We would pledge
our influence to see that their oppor-
tunities for development in Christian
deed the principle is, the smaller the
civilization by the state are equal to
those of the whites. We would in these
and other practical ways, express to
thees our brethren, genuine Christian
sympathy, and ask from them the same
Christian patience, which an over
whelming majority of their race have
shown in the past, while we strive slow
" but surely to work out the supremacy
difficult but not impossible problems
which are involved in our relations. We
wish to record here our genuine adj
miration for, and appreciation of the
patriotic record made by the Negro,
both as a citizen and 4 soldier, during
the great WAL -NuliiHS olAtiS hloIS
splendid promises for the future of this
people than their willingness to sacri-
fee and to even die for the great prin
ciples of human freedom. Thus this rec
ord becomes a challenge to the chivalry
OF the whites to see to it, so far as i'll
them lies, that the Negroes shall re-
ceive their full share of the fruitage Of
victory.'
The conference largest in the history
of the association, occupied four days
and was attended by GIL delegates from
fCrty-three states and several hundred
visitors from every section of the
country Big Bethel A. NJ. f. church,
where the meetings We're held. was
crowded to the doors at each session,
scores of white people awaiting them |
selves of the opportunity to hear the |
questions. vital to the nation discussed, |
and to learn something about the organ
includes nearly 20 per cent white citi |
ization whose membership of 100000 |
zens. Among the distinguished persons |
who appeared in the programs and who |
were in attendance were: Governor |
Hugh M. Dorsey. Mayor James l.. Key |
of Atlanta, f. R. Black, president, At |
lanta Chamber Of Commerce, DR.. Plato |
Durham Dean, Emory university, DR..
G. B. Wilmer, diocese of Atlanta, Pro
testant Episcopal church; DIR. M. Ash
by Jones, E. J. Egan. assistant secre-
tary of the navy during the late war;
Bishop J. s. F1ipper. Mrs. Florence Ke1-
ley of New York, secretary National
Consumers league; DR.. M. w. Adams, |
acting president of Atlanta university; !
DR.. John Hope, president of Moorehouse |
college; DR.. James H. billiard, president |
OF the Jeannos fund and secretary of |
NJ n,l l. Stt,f,
garn, formerly a professor in Columbia |
University, New York City; Charles Ed
ward Russell, author, publicist and !
member of American commission to
Russia in 1917; John f. Milholland of
New York, vice president, Bachelor
Pneumatic Tube Co.: Mrs. w. Spencer
Murray of New York, member national
advisory council of national women 8
writer of New York; Hon. Moorfcld |
party; Martha Grcumins, magazinc
Storey of Boston, president of the ma
tiorol association and formerly pres
de.t of the American Bar associations;
Mary White Ovington of New York,
author and philanthropist and DR.. w.
E B. Dubois of New York, editor Of
the Crisis
The Spingarn medal. given annually
to the American of African descent for
line of human cndeavor during the pre-
ccding year, was awarded to DR.. w. +.
B. Dubois, for bringing together in
Paris in 1919 representatives of seven
teen different colored races of the world
and organizing them into the PanAfri-
can congress- These exercises were hcld
on the campus of Atlanta university.
The 1921 conference will be held in
Detroit, which was chosen in preference
to other cities because OF its new i'm
portance as a Negro industrial center,
an average of 10000 colored immigrants
arriving in the Michigan city each
month Newark, n. j., San Antonio,
Tex. ST. Louis, Mo, Des Moincs. Iowa
Lynch burg, Va, Omaha, Nrb., Atlantic
City, n. j., and BOlcy, Okla. also cX-
tended invitations to the conference.
Iowa had three delegates present.
Mrs. s. johnson of Keokuk, George H.
Edmunds and Ebert r. Hall of Des
of the committee on time and place and !
gave the annual report of the Des
Moines chapter. Mr.. Hall extended the
invitation for the 1927 convention, was
4 N. A. A. c. P. representative at the
g Interracial Cooperation Symposium
and a member of the resolutions com
nittee and its secretary.
The following resolutions were adopt
I'd at the closing session.:
RESOLUTIONS:
The National Association for the Adj
of Colored People represent
ng 1928 branches in forty-three states
II d 100 900 members and speaking for |