Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
N, e. R. L. RACE CREDIT
1923 BULLETIN
Afro-Americans Urged to Observe
153rd Anniversary OF Death or
First Martyr for Founding
u. S. A.
CITIZENSHIP FOUNDATION DAY

Boston, Mass, Feb. %, 1872 }.
Fellow Afro-Americans:- Call 20
Duty On this day when by fiat oil
the Federal Government, the Birth
Anniversary of George WASHINGTON is
observed by official receptions and pub
lie holiday to do honor to the cLm
mapding general of our first Army ~;
Revolution and the first President o.
the new Republic, the National Equal
Rights League sends call to al.
Americans Of African extraction t.
pay public honor everywhere to Cris
pus Attacks, Afro-American too, who.
though held in the status of a slave
wac the pioneer for the creation Of
the Republic, the .irst martyr in the
cause of independence of the United
States of America on the ami yersar.'
of his martyrdom March 9Th, 1923.
Since our white fellow-Amerlcans.
dare to subject us to more of dis.
soect and scorn, Joined with prose- lip
tion founded in this contempt, THAI IS
suffered by any one of the half luin.
dred races and nationalities of omr
poly glot population, it behooyes us
to make all possible use OF credits am
deserts which can not by their own
standards for respect. be ignored con-
sistently by them. The League beliey-
es we should seize every real oppo:
tunity to emphasize our undeniab,e
worth and service to country and to
the white American majority by every
proper advertisement and promulgat-
ion reminder as occasion presents II.
self. Nor is this without value in ueac,.
ing our own race it's riglMful claim to
full equality, and in giving ourselve.
an assured consciousness of being fun
ly entitled to all that goes to othel S
with their citizenship.
By AnglO-SaXon and Caucasian cod e
blood Is the full price of liberty am.
OF rights. The citizen most indebls the
state to him and his by giving his
life's blood in its cause For this norm
ally is given greatest gratitude by tn.
government. Those who died by fight
ing are more frequently immortaiized
by historic monument than any other
class of servers. In this preference
for grateful public recognition, the
pioneers in dying stand first. This is
the white mans code. Stop then and 70
fleet what claim to grateful respect
and full panoply of rights is possessen
by any racial element of whom was
the first martyr of American indepel
dence was one Of our race and color.
Duty bids you. then. Afro-Amerlca,.
to make March 5th an annual race day
by regular custom; an Afro American
day by public observance. day m
which to assemble to honor the man
OF our race, who by his COURAGEOUS
death as leader of a band of patriots,
all white save himself. gave us all SUI.
est ground title to full American free
dom and rights. The National Equal
Rights League bids you in this year
1923 on March 4th 5th. or 9th, to holm
public meetings through which the
white American majority may be lie
minded, of the unlogic OF their despite
OF color by recital of their cali to us
for aid in battle time All again in up
building OF the nation, and of our VII
ing and effective Response every tiine
thew said they were in reed of fight
ers from the Boston Massacre to the
Watch on the Rhine.
Therefore. the race &. every place
pastors, laity, all organizations arr
urged to hold Crispus Attacks meet
ings March A. 5 or 9th. especially Nv
iEfo''i ieiSHtS LtdSueS VI SODlNllUCR 9.
To make it an annual custom send re-
port to Jas. l.. Neil, Rec Sec, 9O6 T..
Street, ~ W., Washington. d. C. or
w. M. Trotter 103 Court Street Bos-
ton.
REV. NJ. A N. SHAW.
President.
Organize Branch League and send
us word.