The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1921-09-24
N. A. A. c. p. ASSISTS NEW
YORK WORLD IN
KHAN EXPOSE

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James Weldon Johnson, Secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, u
Fifth Avenue, New York City, has
made the following statement:
Just one year ago one of the stat
officers. of the National Association
wrote a letter to the headquarters Of
fthe Ku Klux Khan in Atlanta and IN
reply received an application fol
membership blank and some other
literature of the Kan. This was the
beginning of the fight which the Ma
tionaI Association for the Advance
ment of Colorod People has kept up
against the Ku Klux Khan ever since.
After considerable correspondence,
we secured enough information re-
garding the Khan to give wide spread
publicity to il and to show its real
purposes. We placed the evidence
that we 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 De-
partment of Justice at Washington.
Later a member of our Office staff
made the trip to ocoee, Florida and
investigated the Ku Klux Khan riots
in that town in which twenty-five to
forty colored people were killed.
The first mass meeting in New
York against the Ku Klux Klan was
held under The auspices OF the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People on the 3rd OF
January. The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored 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 glorihed in the infamous
moving picture-"The Birth OF A
Nation" In return the Klan through
its organ, The Searchlight, launched
vicious attack agains; the N. A. A.
c. P, and used every means in ITS
power to intimidate members OF the
Association III the South. This fight
of a year waged by the Association has
at last borne fruit and the battle has
been taken up by great and power
full champion. The New York World
And The World is dealing the ku
KIux Khan its death blow. Twenty
other prominent newspapers IN various
sections OF the country are associated
with The World in giving publicity to
the inside workings of this nefarious
organization.
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
investigation and expose which his
paper was undertaking and asked us
to furnish him with all the data and
information possible. Our Office i'm
mediately placed at his disposal its
files of data. information and docu-
ments relating to the Ku KluX Klan.
We are glad that we were able to
render this assistance to The World in
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 institu-
tons of law and order. The World
merits the appreciation of the whole
country and especially Of the colored
people, because the destruction of the
Ku Klux Khan means more TO them
than to anybody else.
In addition the New York American
has begun the publication Of series
of articles exposing the Klan. The
articles are written by c. Anderson
Wright, former King Kleagle of the
Invisible Empire of the KuKlux Klan.
In the issue OF the American of Sep
TENDER l6, Mr.. Wright made the fol-
lowing disclosure regarding the policy
of the Khan toward the N. A. A. c. P.
Fear Negro Power.
Another subject of serious discus
sion was the realization that the power
of the Negro society known as the So
ciety for the Advancement of Colored
People was becoming great menace
in the expansion of the Ku Klux Klan'
as II was continually giving to the
press publicity of the Klan's under
hand methods. This society was get
ting active in State Legislative work,
having already succeeded IN having in