The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-12-02
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ECuT|VE MEETING

ECuT|VE MEETING.
The executive committee of the.
Anti Lynching Crusaders held their
third meeting in New York with five
states represented. The Chairman.
MIS-. M. 3. Talbert, re- orted that the
movement ,v was splendidly started
with over 700 key women in Is states
hard at work. Ultimate success
seemed assured. 80
The committee made the follnwinp
statement IN answer to many inquir-
les :: y S
A:--The movement owes its origin
to Mrs: Helen Curtis who was in
sp1red by 9 public statement Of Con-
gresham Z. C.Dyer, made at the an
nual conference Of the N. A. A. c.. p.
at Newark, June, 1922, in which he
said: If 100000 people were unit
ed In the demand from the Senate
That. the Dyer Bill be passed, there
would be no question of its passage"
a small committee met immediate
~ and organized a campaign.
B.-The committee does not believe
IN duplicating organizations. We
nave enough and more organizations
already for all the work there is to
40: What we need is concentrated
effort for specific objects. The com
mlttee, therefore, is organized to
raise money for one object and then
to dlsband January l, 1923.
C:-The one object of the Anti
Lynchlng Crusaders is to stop lynch
ing and mob violence. There is no
division Of opinion on the imperative
need of this among decent people,
black and white v.4
D.-The one clear and practical
program so far outlined for the &C.
complishment of this end is that of
the N. A. A. c.: p, viz, to pass the
Dyer Bill and enforce it. Whether or
not we accept the whole program of
the N. A: A: e. P. we have yet to
meet single intelligent person of
any race who does not accept and en-
dorse their anti-lynching program.
Moreover, We know that ali monies
handled by the N. A. A. C. P. are
honestly administered and publicity
accounted for. =, -.
E.-The Anti-Lynching Crusaders
have, therefore, determined to raise
$l,OO0, 600 or as much thereof as pos
sible by January LIST and to turn this
sum over to the Anti Lynching fund
of the N. A. A. C. P. in trust to
be used to pass and enforce the Dyer
Anti-Lynching Bill and to put down
mob violence. Il go
F.-Some have doubted if such a
sum is necessary. It is: and we have
asked the executive office of the N.
A. A. c.. P. to outline roughly how
it could be effectively and economic
ally expended. The statement fol-
lows: -, =
An anti-lynching program de-
mands: =.
1. Publicity. =
2. Pressure upon Congress.
8. Pressure upon state legisla-
lures. ..
4. Investigation. +
5. Legal processes.
l.. Publicity, The Negro has new
er given his cause proper publicity.
We propose, if we can obtain the
funds, campaign of newspaper pub
licity patterned after the Red Cross
and Child Welfare campaigns: A
campaign where full page statements
of the facts concerning lynching shall
appear in every influential daily
newspaper throughout the United
States, and that this shall be repeated
two, three or more times until not a
single preson who reads the daily
papers shall be ignorant of the fact
that we are the only country that
burns human beings at the stake;
that 3,436 people have been lynched
from 1888 to, January 1, 1922, and
that rape is not the primary cause
for lynching. Such a campaign could
be started for $4,000 and would, to
be complete, cost $1,000,00O.
2. Pressure upon Congress: The
country must be aroused by letters,
kilograms and articles to pour in up
on the Senate stream of requests
for immediate action. Such cam
paign throughout the United States
cannot be completely inaugurated for
less than $4,000. = ~
D. IIeSSuTe upon SCdCe leSlSla-
lures. Our efforts to. strengthen
state laws must not for a moment
lag. Three or four states have ade-
quate anti-lynching laws. Campaigns
must be inauagurated to secure the
passage Of such laws in other states.
This should cost from $4,000 to
100000. Moreover, if the Dyer Bill
fails of passage before March 1, the
present bill must be reintroduced in
the next Congress. If the Dyer
Anti Lynching Bill is passed, the
campaign against lynching, mob vio-
lence and legal defense has just be-
gun and we must Immediately be
ready for two things:
4. Investigation of every case of
slynching and mob violence which oc-
ours. These Investigations must be
far more thorough than in the past
for on them we must be able to build
court cases with facts and witnesses.
This will mean the use Of detective
agencies, local Investigators, docu-
mentary research, etc. It is safe to
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