Richmond planet., 1921-05-07

The National ASsnriation for the
Advancement of Colorcd People. 20
Fifth avenue. New York. today ISSUED
a statement announcing that its Charg
~ OF pcu,ligr and Of the brutal lis
treatment Of Negroes by white men in
the South had received cntir" confirm,
alton from Governor Hugh NJ. Dorsey
Of Georgia. Governor Dorsey Oil April
26. published y pamphlet ortitlt-'
"'rhc Negro in Georgia. in which he
gives evidence Of l3h instances Of
"NrgroeS lynchCd, Negroes held in
pconagc, Negroes driven ont by orEa-
niZcd lawlcssneSS and Negroes sub.
jcctcd To Individual acts OF cruelty"
in tn" state Of Georgia in the past >
years.
In some countless" GcorEia'S Gov
crnor said, ":hr Nero is being driv
en- out as though hv We're Il wild bcaS,
in others he is being held a slave: in
others no Negroes remain. No effort
has been made to collect the cases cit
ed. II such an effort w"r" maG". II"
licvc thc number could hc multiplied.
In only two Of the l33 cases cited is
the usual crime HrAinS' white women
involved. "
tlf. y. ~. ~ I !. i.hlkit -,
On March %, 1921. the y. \. \. G.
j., issued Il statement -iGucd 10y is
assistant secretary. Waiter T.. white
charging that the horrhlr ..uui'1luu~
on thc Williams 'murdcr farm" lii
Jasper County, Georgia where eleven
or more Negro poems were murdered,
could be duplicated in every Southern
Sta:c. pron"Gc WAS rampant, said the
statement. and: "Tuv Mj>s.>~ ..pi dc,
ia region embracing the States Of Ar
kansas Louisiana Mississippi Western
Tennessee" and eastern TrNns. i" huill
ON ,hiS ~yIrm oi debt lavrry."
GONERNNR DORSEN'S SIHSTAN-
TlArlON.
Govrrncr Dorsey tells OF 4 case in
which Il Georgia. sheriff Sr"t to p:o:cC,
Negroes from the mubhi&m of the Eu
kluX Khan rXon"ralrd the Khan, and
the stationery on which the sheriff
wrote y yN'a he wa himself mem
Der o: t'$F infamous body. He then
rclli the following ;lrocinu; :, oricR:
"touuty No 2l.- Near Il small
town In TINS county Il Negro was born
1litN'clGHt or SIXTY years ago. BY
work he accumulated Il little money
with which. ten years later. hr bought
Il iarn OF lio acres where he lived
with his vile and twelve children.
Thrrc Of !'~ daughters were cduca
ed IhrE Wcr" school tcachrrS \
thrcc-ro"l house WAS on the farm
The tarl. was Well stocked, the Ne.
gro owing in 1919 outright five mules
and having made payments on the i.ur
chase Of Il horse. COW ana thirty.
five hogs
"DurinE the war with Germany
this Negro family bought approximate
~ 81 900 worth Of Liberty Bonds and
Thrift Stamps. The Negro headed an
organization Of Negroes who raised
between $4,000 and s1l 900 for Liber
ty bonds. Ills work waa highly prals
cd by newspapers ut the time.
\ white man, WHO E" II neither read
nor write, owns a farm adjoining tho
farm OF the Negro. When the articlvs
praisin@ the man for his war wo:k ap
pearcd. the white man remarked. - '-
IS getting too damned prosperous
and big%!,y for Il Niger
''TrouIlr began. The whit" man had
lis and procc~>io,.rd rhc N,..ro hn!
no representative present. The process
SioncrS ran the mans line % feet
over the Nc@ro'S ljnE "tirEs Il t"'rar'
wni,h iad been there g q" he H'".p
Wa = child working for the family
from whom hc h0u,.l.l We 1ana. The
,,"u given to him 5'ovrt>! IAc land
% .:lia r-r".:r,' 'r"r r..''" man rr"~>
cd the tIrrHrr. drove S';l,rS along -"
new line "nd ",urr"d IT," Negro not
to eros -, linz. Th" N""rn di"rc"HE@
p1 o. a,t'N