The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-01-14
N. A. A. c. P. HOLDS AN
NUAL MEET in NEW YORK.
Passage Of Dyer Bill is
Urged in Resolutions. Noted
Speakers Appear on Pro-
gram.

New York, n. Y. Jan l2.-The Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored Peaple held its an
nual meeting in New York on jan
done during 1921, at an afternoon
session and reporting progr ess on the
Dyer Anticipating Bill at a night
mass meeting in the Palace Casino.
135th Street and Madison avenue.
At the afternoon session DIR. Err
nest II. Gruening, managing editor of
the Nation, who accompanied the Sen
ate investigating committee to Haiti,
charged the senators with having
whitewashed" the occupation OF the
black reoublic and with having spent
insufficient time there to take the
necessary testimony on atrocities al
legged against Marines.
Charles Edwards Russell orator
and author, spoke at the night mass
meeting at which there was music by
N. g. New York's crack Colored regi-
ment. MIR. Russell welcome the adj
vent of the New Negro who, he de-
ciared. was ready to stand up for
his rights. Mr. Russell ridiculed Presi-
dent Harding's assertion that there
was an impossible gulf" between
white end Colored people in the u. S.
Colored people in the United State
and advocated that, before attempting
United States disarm the lyncher
within her own borders.
Walter +. White, assistant secre-
tary of the Association, urging con-
tinued and vigorous support of the
Dyer Bill. asserted that lynching was
one OF the means of perpetuating peo-
mage and the economic exploitation
of the Negro in the United States.
"Lynching, protects mony,' said Mr..
White. and money is being spent
tohn m
up lynching so that the exploitation
of the Negro may be continued"
At the meeting kilograms were
read from Representative Dyer. Rep
resentative Martin Madden of Illinois
and from James Weldon Johnson, Sec
rotary OF the Association, who had
to he In Washington on the night OF
the meetin. in order to confer with
Republican leaders on the progress
of the Dyer bill
In his telegram to the N. A. A. c. P,
Representative Madden said: 'aThe
time has arrived when the crime of
lynching should be recognized by the
nation as outlawed and all who par
ticipate in 1t as outlaws. l am hear
tily in favor of the antilynching bill
now before Congress"
Mary White overton, chairman of
the Board of Directors of the N A. A.
&c. p. presided at both afternoon and
evening meetings and made stirring
plea that in the coming struggle for
passage of the Dyer Bill Colored Am
orleans continue their efforts in its
behalf undated. Secretary Johnson's
telegram reported that Republican
leaders were confident of the Bills
passage but that steady support of
the Bill must not be slackened.
At the business meeting of the As
sociation. the following were elected
directors to serve until 1924:
E. Burton, Ceruti, Los Angeles, Cal;
George w. Crawford, New Haven,
Conn; Bishop John Hurst, Baltimore,
Md: Paul Kennaday, New York City;
Joseph Prince Loud. Boston. Mass.
Mrs Ella Rush Murray, Katskill, N.
Y. DIR. w. A Sinclair. Philadelphia,
Pa; Charles II. Studin, New York
City; Neval II. Thomas, Washington,
d. c.; Rev. G. r. Waller, Springfield,
Mass; Butler r Wilson. Boston. Mass.
Continued on page 81.