The northwestern bulletin., 1923-02-17
FIGHT AGAINST
MEASURE LEAD BY
HALLE Q. BROWN
Head of National Association of
ColOred Women Urges Women
To Protest Bill.
CLASSIFICATION OF
WOMEN STIRS FEELING
Bill Would Humiliate Race WO-
manhood and Manhood State
ment Ayers.
(Staff Correspondence to The
Associated Negro Press

Jacksonville, Florida, Feb. IL
Notwithstanding Senator Capper's
disclaimer of authorship and agree
ment to attend to the withdrawal
OF the prohibition of marriage pro-
vision between blacks and whites In
the proposed National Marriage Law
introduced by him in the United
State Senate a short while since, the
colored women of the country, un-
der the guidance of the President OF
the National Association of ColOred
Women, Miss Halle Q. Brown, have
issued a vigorous protest against the
contemplated bit of legislation.
This determination was revealed
here a few days since by Miss Brown
herself, who happens to be sojourning
in this section since her summary dis
missal from the faculty of Wilber-
force University by Bishop Jones, the
correctional head of that great Negro
school. Let no woman rest" de-
clares the militant president of the
women's national association, "un-
til we have driven out of the minds
of the American people that the Ne
gro woman is something less than
human and but little more than an
animal subject to the examinations
of the evil minded and the abuse OF
the instinctively brutal. We are go
ing to fight this thing to the death
Miss Brown has issued proclama-
tion to the colored women of the
country, which reads: ITO the pres
idents of states and officers of the
National Association of Colored Wo-
men, Attention:
There has been introduced in the
Senate by Senator Arthur Capper and
in the House by Congressman Louis
Fairfield of Indiana, a federal mar
riage and divorce bill, prohibiting,
among other things, the marriage Of
epeleptics, insanes, feeble-minded,
those afflicted with communicative
diseases and blacks and whites.
Aside from the fact that the meas
ure classifies Colored American citi-
zens with detectives, such a law
would put government sanction upon
the defenceless position which Col
ored women are placed by the laws
in many individual states.
The whole race, especially the col
ored women must rise up and pro-
test with all their power against the
enactment OF such law. Not upon
the grounds that We are desirous of
intermarriage, but upon the ground
that such a law would sweep away
the legal recourse which the colored
woman still has in nineteen states
against the white man who seduces
her and upon the ground that the Ne
gro refuses to be written down in the
Federal law as something less than
a human being. In view of these
ldClS, Sdll upOh IuS obaIC pACoAuChtos
the officers and the rank and file OF
our organization to forward at once
to Senator Capper and Congressman
Fairfield their most urgent protest
against this proposed legislation.
Ever and anon some un-American
measure is proposed to disparage
and humiliate the womanhood and
manhood of the race Let no woman
rest until the desks of these two law
makers are buried beneath kilograms
of protest from the womanhood of
this country. Halle q. Brown,
President, National Association of
Colored Women. Orlando, Florida,
February 1st, 1923.