The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-07-16
N.A.A. C.P. CALLS.
On NATION FOR
SQUARE DEAL
"Lynching and Mob Violence Our
Most Indefensible National
Crime"

NEW YORK CITY, July l6-The
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, 20 Fifth Ave
nue., New York today published the
call to the Nation adopted by resolu
ton at the final meeting of the twelfth
annual conference in Detroit. The
call was presented by Harry Z. Davis,
colored member of the Ohio legisla-
ture. and read as follows:-
Call to the Nation
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People in its
Twelfth Annual Conference, meeting
III this great crisis of the worlds re-
construction. would remind the nation
that from our very first conference
we have planted our agitation and ac
ton upon a careful and thorough in
vestigation of the truth concerning
the Negro problem. Often when we
have published in our organ, THE
CRISIS, and i'll letters and articles in
the press, our findings and conclu
sions, we have been accused of exag
geration. Today we stand indicated
before the world in the revelations of
Georgia, and knowing that Georgia is
little if any worse than half a dozen
other states, we solemnly adjure this
nation to give more serious attention
and more earnest action to this tester
ing social sore.
Lynching and mob violence against
Negroes still looms as our most indie
feasible national crime and unless the
present administration takes early ac-
ton by legal enactment it will stand
condemned of all thoughtful citizens
north and south. Increasingly the
Negro at Washington, Chicago and
Tulsa has been forced to give his life
in self-defense. No man can do less
for his family and people and it is a
cruel campaign of lying that repre-
sents this fight for life as organized
aggression. Negroes are not fools
Eleven million poor laborers do not
seek war on a hundred million power
full neighbors. But they cannot and
will not die without raising a hand
when the nation lets its off -scourngs
and bandits insult, harry, loot and kill
them.
What is the cause OF the new con-
flict of races in America? 1t is not
simply a growing sense OF manhood
creased lack of sympathy and sense
OF justice on the par OF the whites
and this arises from the swapping of
those human bonds which must exist
between neighbors. If the Negro
child is not educated; if the Negro is
segregated in federal departments and
Oklahoma cities; if he is publicly in
suited by Jim Crow. A free and
honest ballot is the basis of democ-
racy. and this country owes it to its
traditions to stop the rotten bor-
ough" system of the South.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, rep
resenting 397 branches, 10000 mem
bers, in forty-four states, and speaking
in behalf of eleven millions of people,
urges the Judiciary Committee OF the
United States House of Representa-
tives now in charge of the Dyer Anti
lynching Bill TO expedite this bill and
report it favorably to the House
The colored people of the United
States demand action and not reasons
for delay. If this nation has not the
power to stop lynching, it has not the
power to exist.
The National Association believes
that colored men should make every
effort to see that colored women reg
lister and vote at each election, and
conversely, we urge colored women to
induce coiored men to respect and use
their right of franchise.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People calls
upon President Harding to invite the
nations of the world to join the Unit
ed States in a conference to discuss
and adopt methods for world disar-
mament.
The Twelfth Annual Conference of
the National Association for the Ad-
}ancement of Colored People desires
TO thank the officials and citizens of
the City of Detroit for their hospital