The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-03-12
SAYS NTER-RACIAL CO.
OPERATION is STEADILY
GROWING.
Many Countries Are Organ
lied For Promotion Of
FriendIier Relations. More
Schools Needed.
By VIM. ANTHONY AERy

l.
Hampton, Va, March 1O.-Inter-ra-
cial cooperation Is growing steadily
throughout the Nation. In the South
the inter-racial cooperation moye-
ment is receiving the hearty sup
port of the Church and the press as
community leaders
The Commission on Inter-raciaI Co
operation Is the outgrowth Of a con-
ference which was held in Atlanta
early In l2i9 to consider some of the
grave problems of race relationships
that had been brought to the sur
race on account of the World War
II Is now doing organized work in
all the southern states.
The Commission Is composed OF
white and Colored men, including DR.
x. II. Motion, DR.. John Hope, Bishop
Z, -. Jones. Bishop G.. W. Clinton,
Or. Isaac Fisher, and DIR. John NJ.
Candy. The officers include John j.
Eagan, chairman; r. II. King, dlrec-
tor; and VIII w. Alexander, Associate
Director. The headquarters of the
Commission are in the Gambler Build
ing. Atlanta, Ga.
The publications of the Commission
include Law. and Order in Tennes-
see" by Edwin Minis; "An Appeal to
the Christian People Of the South
adopted by the recent Church Lead
ers' Conference at Blue Ridge, NJ c.;
The Nashville Plan of Inter-racial
Work.; and "a Handbook for Inter-
racial Committees compiled by Ed
win Minis These publications do not
attempt Ito lay down any hard and
fast plan of action for any state OF
community or to generalize and dog
matize.'
These publications, written in a
Christian spirit, express the better
public opinion OF the South. They
report concrete achievements OF
wealths Prof. Edwin Minis of Van
derbilt University is one of a num-
ber of Southern white leaders who
has ably presented "the facts of re-
ligious, economic, and social progress
which have been the results of CO.
operative effort and of real construc-
tive craftsmanship.
The Commission on Inter-racial Co
operation has wisely and quiet
six hundred counties inter-racial COM
mittees that carry the burden OF adj
iusting race relatiops before the
brealJing-polnt is reached and OF
helping to develop movements which
will bring white and Colored people
into friendly relation These inter
racial committees are functioning in
specific matters. such as justice be-
fore the law, adequate educational fa-
cilities, justice in public conveyances.
economic justice and the handling of
any acute situation which arises be-
tween the races"
BETTER Health and BETTER Education.
The Inter-racial Committee of the
War Work Council Of the Y: M. c. A.
has just issued a study of the va
rious agencies that are working in
the field of social welfare for in
creased inter-racial cooperation. The
study, after referring to the splendid
work of some of the educational foun-
dations, expresses the hope that aid
will be given for the establishment of
"at least three medical and nurse
training schools for Negroes which
would compare favorably with such
and for the establishment Of "a Sc
ries of five or six universities run
ming from Austin Texas, to New Or
leans, Atlanta, Nashville, Richmond,
with perhaps one in Arkansas, one In
Missouri and one in the Carolinas."
Inter-rncInI Corporation is Steadily
Growing.
In the social and economic field
thirty-six agencies-ten predominate-
ly white and twenty-six predominate-
ly Negro-are working on inter-racial
cooperation programs
Twenty-three national or semi
national organizations are co-operat-
ing with Negroes of the South in the
development of religious life. Here,
as in no other field. there Is lack, of
field. there is lack Of unified states
manship.' Chamber OF commerce,
civic clubs and local city organiza-
tions have been taking a lively In
terest in promoting inter-racial CO.
operation Publicity has already been
given to work in Nashville, Memphis,
Atlanta, New Orleans, Louisville,
Charlotte, Fort Worth, Chicago. and
Cincinnati.
The need of bringing hospital ia
cilities within the reach of the 49,
600, 900 American Negroes should be
apparent to Legislators and others
who are responsible for our national
health efficiency.
In Nashville, for example, there
has been a notable Improvement in
the handling Of news relating to the
Nc gro. The activities of the race are
given more and more prominence. One
Of the papers carries at least two coll
the papers carries at least two coll
umns every Sunday morning, sum-
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