The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-23
A TIMELY PRAYER.

The National Association for the Advancement of Coored
People, 70 Fifth Avenue New York. has announced that Cooed
ministers throughout the United States have asked asked
preach Justice to the Negrothe Test of Christian
Sunday April "a opening day drive quarter
million members. Prayer at that time will be offered
That God will trouble the of White America
the wrongs done the Negro so that the Nation may be moved to
That this country may be brought to realization that so
long toerates these the denial of equal opportunity
the denial of equal protection under the law the slavery of
and the burning of human beings the stake stands
the arch sinner the nations and it's proestaons of de-
mocracy as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal.
ideals for ourselves and for country and that through
union Of purpose and action obtain the to
forward into the full enjoyment of the rights and privileges of
our native land.
make easy OF utternce by of those asked to offer
in behalf of the of the organization which seeks bet
is altogether proper such prayer should offered
The wrongs from which the Negro suffers most can be right
troubled This American Nation will seek ways of
greater equity only at the dictates of Public Opinion which de-
In far it is possible to bring the American public mind
to realize that the institutions of the denial of equal
approval of nchng and its kindred barbaes render it
worthy of the of democracy and it to become by
be aroused.
prayer realization may uttered hopefully by
everyone.
Already unmstakabe signs being of American
awakening which bids fair to become more than ordinarily pow
which suffer to lose sight of the agencies already
The past months witnessed an orgy of
and determinations against which if considered alone
enough in number and powerful enough implied hatred
to to feel that indeed hopeless case.
But concdent with these barbas there have been other
happenings indicative of force behalf less powerful
The Georgia peonage evidence of shocking
dtons maintaining upon plantations But at the time it
furnished the unusa spectacle of Southern Jury convicting
guilty of them for the msatment of Negroes evidence
furnished by Negro And reports reliable the people of
the state uphodng the jury in its judgment Such
dporab though be- gives evidence at least of the
existence of a conscience
In Kentucky North Carolina and Texas officers of the law
have resisted and ouwted the mob in than few
thus guaranteeing to their prisoners trial.
Southern speakers have stood Southern lecture platforms
and urged Southern to realize fully that only
all realize their nerdependence they nation be
successful.
Southern states have materially increased their educational
appropriations for Negro schools hospitals refomaores
nterracia committees growing in number daily and while
they their early stages Of development they give
finite promise of serving to render racial conditions har
monious.
The above mentioned agencies apparent if will
actual conditions open mndedy Whether they will grow
the extent of finally usherng that day Of equal opportunity
and equal justice for which pray the growth Of Conscience