The broad ax., 1921-09-24
N. A. A. C. p. ASSISTS NEW
YORK WORLD IN
KHAN EXPOSE


| lanes Weldon Johnson. Secretary
of the National Association for the
advancement of Colored People. 20
Fifth Avenue, New York City, has
made the following statement:
Just one year ago one OF the stan
officers Of the National Association
wrote a letter to the headquarters Of
1.-THE Ku KIux Khan in Atlanta and in
reply received an application for
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 Klan ever since.
After considerable correspondence,
we secured enough information re-
garding the Khan to give wide spread
publicity to it 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 Once,
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
tionai Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People on the Srd 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 II is glorihed in the infamous
moving picture-"The' Birth OF A
Nation" In return the Klan through
its organ, The Searchlight, launched
a vicious attack. against the N. A. A.
c. P, and used every means IN ITS
power to intimidate members OF the
Association III the South. This tight
of year waged by the Association has
at last borne fruit and the battle has
been taken up by a great and power
full champion. The New York World.
And The World is dealing the ku
Klux 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 a 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 end 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 Khan.
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 a great ser
vice not only to the Negro but to the
nation because in stamping out the ku
| Klux Khan, 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 10 them
than to anybody else.
In addition the New York American
has begun the publication OF a series
of articles exposing the Klan. The
articles are written by c. Anderson
Wright, former King Kleagle of the
Invisible Empire Of the Ku Klux Klan.
In the issue OF the American Of Sep
TENDER 10, 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 a great menace
in the expansion of the Ku Klux Klan,
as it was continually giving to the
press publicity of the Klan's under
hand methods. This society was get
ting active in State legislative work,
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