The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-10-28
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GLASGOW, Scotland, Oct 26-IH
what were probably his most master
full addresses since becoming a figure
of international Fenown, Dr. Robert
Russo Motion. head of Tuskegee In
titute on last Tuesday reviewed the
progress of the Negro in America
during the past years and set forth
their hopes for the future in two APP
pearances before the Scottish church
here
He was the principal speaker at
both the morning and afternoon ses-
sions and a large and typically dig
nified audience fairly hung upon his
words as he detailed the PROBLEMS
and Development Of the Negro Race
Beginning in his speech OF the
morning he sailed:
TT Is my privilege to speak in be-
half of that great section of the hui
man race that has been looked upon
longest by the sun; in behalf of the
millions of black men and women
whose ancestral home Is Africa, but
who in the providence of God have
been scattered all over the world.
come from America where there are
about twelve millions of this great
people who yet thrill to the call of
Africa, to which they are bound by
ties which can never be broken. 1t is
now more than three hundred years
since the first of my people were
borne away from their native land and
carried helpless and destitute to help
lay the foundations of a new civiliza-
ton upon those western shores. In
America. as well as in the British
Isles, the year 1920 is held in rever-
alent honor as the date which marks
the advent OF the noble band Of Pill
grim Fathers who laid the foundations
of American liberty. But even before
them. black men had reached Ameri-
haaN afl AtffQranf
pices. The whole history Of America
was to be marked by the evolution
of these conflicting forces-the forces
OF liberty and the forces of bondage,
of which the forces OF liberty ultl-
mately to triumph. 1t was a strange
Providence that brought the black
man to America when the foundations
of that great western nation We're
laid. but subsequent events compel
him who believes in God to hold that
these western shores to demonstrate
by the severest tests the vast pissibil-
tiles of human development and CO.
operation between men of all races
and especially of the types which sare
commonly regarded as the two ex-
tremes OF the human race. Perhaps
no phase Of American life has involved
so much Of tragedy and romance nor
so profoundly affected the development
of its history as the working out of
black men within the. bosom of a
nation conceived in liberty and de-
dicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal"
He spoke at length of the economic
progress of the race since slavery
giving statistics as to their land hold
ings, church wealth and business
growth, of their work in foreign
mission fields and of the increase of
their social well being, due to the
purchase of homes.
Tells of Segregation.
In speaking of the segregation idea
as II is carried cut in America his
statement was as follows:
And in the matter of segregation
the truth is simply this: The white
people are the ruling. controlling, do
minating, directing element. They have
the best Of everything. the best parts
of the cities, the best hotels and res
taurants, and as a rule, the best
schools, colleges and universities. This
is particularly true In America, and
when a Negro shows an inclination
to be with white people. it Is not be-
cause he wants to be with white peo-
pie as such. but because he wants to
get the best as to land, position. edu-
cation. comforts. conveniences and pro-