The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-01-13
RABBI WISE HITS
KHAN At ANNUAL
MEETING ON. A.
Jewish Teacher Bids Race Have
Courage, Stand Erect With
UndefiIed Souls
$1,000 GIFT RECEIVED
Branch Reports Heard; Mary 3. Tai
bert Tells Of Anti-Lynehine
Crusaders

bert Tells Of Anti-Lynehine
Crusaders
New York, Jan. discriminating
in a night mass melting in the town
hall, New York city, the National
Association for the Advancement Of
Colored People, held its annual meet
ing on January 2, 1928. In the cleo
+ion, new member was added to the
N. "a. A. G. p. Board Of Directors,
Mr.. Herbert X. Stockton of the law
firm of Haight, Smith, Griffin and
Deming, whose brief on the Dyer
anti-lynching bill was instrumental
in procuring a favorable report on
the measure by the. Senate committee
on the judiciary. ~-.-"
Branch efforts against segregation
in schools in Philadelphia, Boston and
and the fight against the
Ku Klux Khan and the "Birth Of q
Nation" film were recited by dele
gates from Massachusetts, Connect
cut, New York, New Jersey, Della
ware and Pennsylvania, at the after
noon meeting in the Russell Sage
Foundation building. ;.
At the night mass meeting the
speakers were Mrs. Mary B. Talbert,
Spingarn medallist for 1922 and
'eader of the Anti-lynching Crusa-
ders; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; Dan
Kelly, a white Texan, who was sent
to Kirvin, Tex, by the N. A. A. C.
p. to investigate the burning to death
IF three colored men; and James Wei
don johnson, who r1ported on the
fight for the Dyer anti-lynching bill
md asserted a renewed fight for its
enactment would be carried on. r.
Indifferent to Khan.
Rabbi Wise in the course of his
address, uttered a singing rebuke
and challenge to the Ku Kfux Khan,
and characterized as discreditable to
the American people, the failure of
the Senate to enact the Dyer anti
'ynching bill. .--..
II was warned against coming to
This meeting" said Rabbi Wise. ~
may say to you that / am Indifferent
% what any member of the Ku Klux
Khan may say about me or about my
people. Their hatred is my honor;
heir dispraise Of my people is its
cremation" -.
Rabbi Wise closed his address with
an impassioned appeal that colored
''en as we'll as white, continue un-
daunted the fight against oppression.
He said: a...*
II come to. you tonight as q Jew
and Jewish teacher because I know
as few men have had cause to know
how injustice hurts, how it gals and
how long continued oppression may
degrade. I .know-without uttering
word of bitterness or of hatred, for
/ feel none against my oppressors
and my peoples oppressors - my
chief business in life is to move my
people to stand erect, to lift their
voices to the skies and to know that
no matter what the world without
may do to them they must keep their
souls undefiled. .1->.S
Fear Not >.~- =
81 come to you tonight a son and
teacher. of one of the earliest and
Oldest races in history who have
achieved high culture; / come to you
The scion Of a race which gave to
the Western world its Bible, old and
new, it's patriarchs, its kings, it's
prophets, its evangelists-the race
which gave to the world Abraham
and Moses and Elijah and Isaiah and
Jesus and John and Paul,-the race
which gave to the world the things
of the spirit by which it lives; and /
say to you. members, sons and daugh-
ters of the newest, in many senses,
of the races who have been suffered
70 emerge from the darkness, bid
YOU have courage and fear not. To
YOU I speak the word of Isaiah to
nay people, Fear thou not, my serv-.
ant; fear thou not, my servant -.
"There shall be minimum of JUS
tice and liberty laid at your door, and
on the other hand those Americans
who, like you and me, love our coun-
try who believe that America and
even-handed justice must be inter-
changeable terms-we stand with
YOU, we will support you, we viii
fight with you, lawfully in the Amer
lean way, not in the lawless way of
the lyncher; we will fight with you
as men and women until this shame
shall have been ended, until lynching
@hall forever have passed from the
vocabulary and the life of the Amer
lean people. I'll
"And you, sons and daughters of
the cclored race, will render q great
service, a supreme service, to your
and my America if instead of bow
ing your backs beneath the yoke of
his foul and fendish oppression, You
say to America: we are men; we
mean to live as men. Our wrong
doors shall be punished and utterly
punished under and by the processes
of law; but lynching shall not be the
portion of any man, white or black,
who lives under the American skies.'s
81, 600 Donation.
Mrs. Mary B. Talbert announced
for the Anti-lynching Crusaders, that
all of their work had been done with
nut drawing any of the funds con-
.ributed and that those funds were to
be turned over intact and entire TO
he National Association for the Adj
vancement Of the Coiored People for
The anti-lynehing CAMPAIGN.
Before the close Of the meeting.
Mr.. johnson announced the gift by
Mr.. Philip Peabody of Boston Of
$1,000 to the N. "A. A. C. p.
SpiIituaIs Please