Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-09-15
NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS"
LEAGUE 10 MEET.
At Brooklyn New York-September
1928, 1923.

Boston, Mass. Sept. To-day the
National Equal Rights League made
public the text of the following call
for the Leagues 10th Annual Meeting.
To Officers and Members Of the Nat
ional Equal Rights League Churches.
Fraternal and all other Colored Ameri
can organizations and citizens, Greet
ing:
BY virtue of the authority invested
In the ONCE OF national presidents l,
M, A. N. Shaw. in conjunction withi the
other national officers. hereby issue
the call for the 18th Annual Meeting
OF this League. in the city Of Brooklyn,
N, Y, at the Holy Trinity Baptist
Church, DeKalb and Franklin Ave.
nnes. September 26 to 29, 1923, which
will be open to race delegates from
religious. fraternal, and all other Col
ored American bodies or communities
acting to this end, with delegate fee
Of one dollar. Come from every place
for the vital welfare Of our race. Quar-
ters at 103 Court street, Boston. We
implore ColOred Americans to rise at
this hour to full race consciousness rs
numerous and politically powerfu'
racial group in need of Independent,
self-initiated and united struggle hy
means Of solid organization against
strong hostility (which threatens it's
progress and welfare.
In view of the fact that Providence
has brought to the White House, Hon.
Orable Calvin Coolidge Of Massachu.
sets, man well known for his stand
for justice, ardent defender of law and
order, in whose political making the
founders and aim of the present nation
al executive officers of this League par
ticipated, and who has nevtsr forgotten
the loyal services of this league on
bis behalf, which, is also true as it hap
pens Of the speaker of the National
House of Representatives and the ma
jority party leader of the u S, Senate
the race would surely be acting wise.
ly to unitedly support the efforts CT
the League to hold at this juncture a
National Afro-American Assembly on
rights, objectives and life protection
We. therefore. invite the thinkers
workers and leaders of the race in all
departments OF real race life, to come
and participate in the first manner for
the formulation Of a race policy and
L o'C pioSl lOT lIUeGdJlCu IOF
presentation to the new president.
and to the incoming u. S. Congress.
and to the American people.
Finally, in view Of the crowning
work of the year by the League in the
signing OF the "Concordat" by the nat
ional civil rights organizations, docu
ment by which they all have agreed TO
genuinely cooperate for the first time
in the history of the race, we extend
humblest invitation to these leaders to
send fraternal delegates with full
rights and to all other organizations,
religious, fraternal. ETC., to send regu
lar delegates. Again we invite the Col
ored people in every place to organize
branch Leagues or Equal Rights Com
and send delegates Act at
once. M. A. N. Shaw, President, Bos
ton, Mass, in cooperation with Rev. r..
Morphins, now vice-pres.. j. l.. Neill
ID. of c., Rec-Se'cy., VIM. Monroe Trot
ter. 103 Court st. Boston. Mass Corr.
Se'cy. M. w. Spencer, ID. of c. Treas.
A. G. Smitherman, Mass. Field Se'cy..
Rev. e. A. Abbott, New York Chaplain
Rev II. S. Harten, Pres. Brooklyn
Branch, Host of Convention.