The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-09-24

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OF the National Association for the
advancement of Colored People, 20
Fifth Avenue, New York City, made
the following statement:
Just one year ago one OF the staff
officers of the National Association
wrote letter to the headquarters OF
the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta and in
reply received an application for
membership blank and some other lit
erature of the Khan. This was the be-
ginning of the fight which the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People has kept up
against the XII KluX Kan ever since.
After considerable correspondence,
we secured enough information re-
garding the Kan to give wide spread
publicity to it and to show its real
purposes We placed the evidence
that VIC had gathered into the hands OF
the Mayor of the City of New York.
Governor of New York State, Police
Commissioner OF New York and the
District Attorneys Office, and also
into the hands of the Department OF
Justice at Washington. Later a mem
Der of our Office staff made the trip
to Ocoee. Florida. and investigated the
ku Klux Khan riots in that town in
people we're killed.
The first mass meeting in New York
against the Ku Klux Khan was held
under the auspices OF the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People on the third of Jam
uary. The National Association for
the Advancement of Colorcd People
has not only fought the Ku Klux Khan
from its National Office and through
its branches by publicity, by mass
meetings and by appealing to the
authorities, it has also fought the Khan
as it is glorified in the infamous NOV
ing picture The Birth of Nation"
In return the Klan through its organ,
The Searchlight, launched a vicious
attack against the n. A. A. c. P. and
used every means in its power to in
timidate members OF the Association
in the South. This fight of a year
1aged by the Association has at last
borne fruit and the battle has been
taken up by a great and powerful
champion, The New York World. And
The World is dealing the Ku Klux
klan its death blow Twenty other
prominent newspapers in various sec
tons OF the country are associated
with The World in giving publicity to
the inside workings OF this nefarious
About little more than two months
ago a representative OF The World
came into the National Office OF the
Association and told US plans for an
and expose which his
paper was undertaking and asked US
to furnish him with all the data and
possible Our office i'm
placed at his disposal its
files of data, information and docu-
nents relating to the Ku Klux Klan.
We are glad that we were able to
render this assistance to The World III
the great fight which it is carrying on.
The World is performing great ser
vice not only to the. Negro but to the
nation because in stamping out the
Ku Klux Klan, it is conserving its in
'titutions of law and order The
World merits the appreciation of the |
whole country and especially of the |
;olorcd people because the destruction
IF the Ku Klux Klan means more to
hem than to anybody else.
In addition the New York American |
las begun the publication of series
of articles exposing the Khan The
articles are written by c. Anderson |
Wright, former King Kleagle of the
INVISIBLE Empire of the Ku Klux Khan. |
IN the issue of the American of Sep
ember 10, Mr.. Wright made the fol-
owing disclosure regarding the policy
d the Klan toward the N A. a. C. p. |
Fear Negro Power
Another subject of serious discus +,
sion was the realization that the power
IF the negro society known as the So
,iety for the Advancement Of Colored |
People was becoming a great menace
n the expansion OF the Ku Klux Khan.
rs 1t was continually giving to the