Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1921-05-07
D|ABOL|CAL PEONACE CONDITIONS Barred
BY GOVERNOR DORSEY IN OFFICIAL REPORT

The National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People, 70
Fifth avenue, New York, today issued
Il statement announcing that its chnrg-
as of pconage and Of the brutal mis-
treatment Of Negroes by white men in
the South had received entire confirm
alton from Governor Hugh M. Dorsey
of Georgia. Governor Dorsey Gil April
26. published pamphlet entitlet!
1.-The Negro in Georgia" in which he
gives evidence Of 1876 instances of
Negroes lynchcd, Negroes held In
peonage, Negroes driven out by orgn-
niZcd lawlessness and Negroes sub.
jected to individual acts of cruelty
in the state Of Georgia in the past
years.
"In some counties" Gcorgia's Gov
ernor said, "he Negro is being drtv-
en- out as though he were a wild beast;
in others he IS being held Il slave; in
others no Negroes remain. No effort
has been made to collect the cases cit
ed. If such an effort were made, be
lieve the number could be multiplied.
In only two Of the 1875 cases cited is
the usual crime against white women
involved"
THE N. A. A. c. p. CHARGES. ,
On March 80, 1921, the n. A. a. c.
p, issued Il statement signed by is
assistant secretary, Walter f.. White
charging that the horrible conditions
on the Williams murder farm" ih
Jasper County, Georgia where eleven
or more Negro poems were murdered,
III I, mi tod IN, tl,nt
state. Pconage was rampant, said the
statement, and: 1.-THE Mississippi dc,
tn region embracing the States OF Ar
kansas, Louisiana Mississippi Western
Tennessee and eastern Texas, is built
on ihis Sytem OF debt lavcry."
GOVERNOR DORSEY'S SUBSTAN-
TIATION.
Governor Dorsey tells OF case in
which Georgia sheriff sent to protect
Negroes from the mobbism of the Ku
KluX Khan cXoneratcd the Khan, and
the stationery on which the sheriff
wrote showed he was himself Il mem
Der OF this infamous body. He then
NellS the following atrocious s'Dries:
County No. 21.--Neur Il small
town In this county a Negro was horn
flfty-eight or sixty years ago. BY
work he accumulated Il little money
with which, ten years later, he bought
farm OF $40 acres where he lived
with his wife and twelve children.
Three of his daughters were cduca;
ell. They were school teachers. A
three-room house was OH the farm.
The farm was well stocked, the Ne.
gro owing in 1919 outright five mules
and having made payments on the i.ur
chase of horse, COW and thirty.
five hogs.
During the war with Germany
this Negro family bought approximate
ly $1,000 worth of Liberty Bonds and
Thrift Stamps. The Negro headed an
organization of Negroes who raised
between $4,000 and 81 900 for Liber
ty bonds. His work was highly prats'
ed by newspapers at the time.
A white man, who en- neither read
nor write owns a farm adjoining the
farm of the Negro. When the articles
praisng the man for his war VOL, ap
peared, the white man remarked. '---
IS getting too damned prosperous
and biggity for a niger
"Trouble began. The white man had
! is and proccssioEch. The Negro hal
no representative present. The process
sioners ran the mans line 20 feet
over the Negroes line "tl o.ss ten rae.
which had been there g zee the Nc"')
was child working for the family
from whom he bought Tie land. The
decd given to him coveIG! iht land
"a this terrace. The wn'tn man cross
cd the terrace, drove stakes along the
new line and warned the Negro not
to cross the line. The Negro disregard
ed the warming and continued 20
plough to The terrace, as he had been
doing since hoyhood.
SHERIFF. "WOUID RATHER KILL"
BLACKS and whites from the conn-
try crowded the town Saturday after
moons. One Saturday, the fall OF 1919
the Negro with his three daughl ers
and son came to town The town Mar
shall approached the Negro in the
street and s'lid: I ',2ve Il warrant for
you. The Negro answered: Mr.. -,
what have | done? Read your war
rant.
"Tho Marshal rcNlicl with an oath
that he would rarhor kill the Negro
than read Tho warrant. Here the cvi
dence varies. The MORO had a stick
! in his hand. Some say that the Mar
shall. who IS large and powerful. grab
bed the stick md struck the Negro III
the face with Nia' nl. knocking him
down. Others state that the Negro,
raising his *'icl. back away when the
Marshal rushed IN and struck him to
the ground viii, his pistol Several
other white mon rushed nnnn him md
began TO choke and bent him.
Give Of his daughters started to