The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-11-12
TUSKEGEE HEAD COM
PLETES SUCCESSFUL
LECTURE TOUR
Visits Many Places Of Inter-
ests in South and Speaks to
Appreciative Mexia Audi
enCeS.
(By A. N. P.)

Jackson, Miss.,Nov. 10.-Dr. Robert
Russa Motion. Principal of Tuskegee
Institute. has just completed a tour
a special interview DR.. Motion said !:
Il am convinced that the South is
now ready as never before to face
squarely the question of the RESPONSE
bility of the White South to the
members of my race. have under
taken this tour, first, to interpret
the needs and desires of my people
to the white people of the state. of
Mississippi, because l know that they
are ready to listen. / am determined
to speak out frankly of the things
of which my people complain and
which have caused them to leave the
South in such large numbers, More
over, l believe it to be necessary to
convince the best white people thct
my people are willing to face their
own shortcomings frankly, when that
presentation is made by member of
their own race in whom they have
some confidence. So on this tour, /
am speaking frankly to the members
of both races in order that we may
get together down here, to work for
the advancement of the south and
of ourselves intelligently and effecti-
iYely.p
The tour was organized by the lead
ing members of the race in Mississip-
I pi who were backed up and supported
by the leading white people of the
state. Governor Russell Joined with
the various Chambers of Commerce
and Boards of Trade in inviting DR.
Motion to visit the state and wrote
him a personal letter, urging hin
to accept the invitation.
The tour opened officially in Brook
haven in the southern part of the
state. From there, the party proceed.
ed to Hattiesburg, where a crowd
of 1000 people turned out to hear the
ceeded to Meridian. Before leaving
; Hattiesburg, however an opportunity
was given everybody to inspect the
new beautiful school-house which had
( Just been completed for our people
at a cost of $4,000.
| At Jackson was staged the most
successful meeting of the tour in
point of attendance. The local com
mittee had arranged for the use of
the state fair grounds. Six thousand
people gathered to listen for an hour
and twenty minutes to a very master
| full presentation of the race problem
| in the South and particularly in Mis-
sissippi. DR.. Motion began by explain
/ planned that no man in the party was
receiving a cent for his services; that
all the money collected by the state
committees was being spent for the
entertainment of the party while in
the state. He and those who had ac-
companied him from other states had
paid their own expenses to and from
the state line. After telling some
/ stories to make the audience feel at
home, he went on to show that 1t
was only by being frank and above
board that white and Colored people
could expect to cooperate together
| for the benefit of each other
The party also visited Utica, Vicks-
burg, Alcorn, Greenville. At Green
willie the meeting was held on the
lawn of the Court House with nearly
two thousand people in attendance.
A great many people came in from
the surrounding country for the meet
| ing and a very large number of them
were white. Here DIR. Motion had the
unusual experience OF being congratu
! lated by a man said to be the chief
mob leader in that section.
The tour ended at that very un-
usual and progressive town Of Mound
Bayou where Mr.. Isaiah Montgomery
and Mr.. Chas Banks and others well
coined the party.