Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-09
SPEAKER TELLS Of
PAN-AF FR|CAN AIMS
Miss Jessie r. Fauset Addresses
Philadelphia Inter-Racial
Committee Meeting
pECOUNTS CONGRESS PLANS

Miss Jessie II. Fauset, literary
,d,tor Of The Crisis, speaking at the
January meeting of the Philadelphia
rnter. Racial Committee, mt Fifteenth
and Race streets. told Of the second
Pan. African Congress last simmer in
Europe. tn
Miss Fauset has charming per-
,onality and speaks with fluent ease.
Che holds nm A. y. degree from Cor
n.l, and n masters degree from the
University of Pennsylvania.
The First PAN African Congress. was
,.,d in Paris in 1910. France was
cbosen because she is the most liberal
- all countries in HAr treatment of
osonle OF darker hue. The Congress of
too1 divided its sessions among Lon
ian. Brussels and Paris. One hundred
and ten delegates, representing about
,uenty-s six groups Of African descent.
.ttended, and from 1000 to 1900 per-
sons, white and colored. were present.
Fight resolutions were passed in Lon
don demanding recognition Of civilized
men as civilized despite their race or
rolor: local self government for back
ward groups; education in self -knowl-
edge; science and industrial technique
undiyorccd from the art Of beauty |;
freedom in their own religion and GUS
toms: co operation with tho rest Of the
world in government, industry and art
an the basis of justice. freedom and
neaco: defense against the unrestrained
creed Of invested capital the establish
,mept of a bureau under the League of
Nations for the study of Negro problems
ond for the protection of native labor.
In Brussels the Congress was at
tended by more whites than Negroes and
there was a noticeable constraint in
free speech, the shadow of the Belgian
Congo with its rich treasures exploited
by white capital hanging over the ses-
ious. The resolutions, which for the
sake OF racial unity were allowed to
pass, dealt only with racial suscepti-
bility TO culture and similar matters. In
Paris the resolutions were again passed
with some notifications in regard to
capitalism.
Then the final coup. the presentation
n the results of the Congress to the
Assembly of the League Of Nations then
meeting in Geneva. That was managed
through tho social help of titled Eng
lish woman and the prestige of DR..
Dubois name aud personality.
Three requests were presented on the
floor of the Assembly. for separate
section Of the League to deal par
tcularly with the condition and needs
d native Negro labor especially in
Africa and the Islands Of the Sea, that
imam Of Negro descent be added to the
Mandates Commission. and that the
good offices Of the League be exercised
in behalf Of the Negro race and to check
the growing feeling that it is permissible
70 treat civilized men as unciSIlized
il they are Negroes.
THE Congress-" says Mrs. Anne
Blddle Stirling, chairman of the
Philadelphia Inter- Racial Committee
counts among its results the perma
aent Pan African Association with
plans TO hold meeting every other
year; the startled attention of the white
world which had not known that
Negroes could organize, finance and
manage such n vast business, and last.
but not least, the sense of racial con-
eiousncss, friendship and reawakened
hope"