The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-01
NEGRO PROTEST HITS COOLIDGE

posed the Republican demi-god, Sena
tor Watson of Indiana, as being with
the Ku Klux Khan" He told of the
incident of the mob of 800 men which
stormed the home of Negro in Wash
ington, and the refusal of the authori
ties Of the capital to give protection
because of the evident desire of the
authorities to fasten segregation onto
Washington. The authorities failing
to respond to appeals, the Negroes
reqested them, ''If you find you can't
help us, get out of the way and we
will help ourselves" He declared the
Willingness courage and ability of
the Negroes to defend themselves by
the same violent means that are en-
ployed by the mobs.
Much amusement was caused by a
delegate who pleaded for the Negroes
to be "genteel," so as not to be classed
with the trough element of the race
who sit in their front windows to cut
their corns." This attitude was ridic.
uled by the other delegates.
Evil OF Child Segregation
w. S. Henry, of Indianapolis, a
Negro born in Virginia, in an able
speech pointed out that the segrega-
ton of colored children in Jim Grow
schools is the means to stamp the
spirit Of the child forever with the be-
lief in his own inferiority. 1.-THE
Catholics tell u.s." he said, "'give us
your child when he is young, and we
will see that he dies a Catholic, In
just the same way, if you segregate a
Negro child in Jim Grow school be-
tween the ages of five and twenty
one years, you will do away with his
moral stamina to such an extent that
he will be willing to go thru life as
an inferior"
Mr.. Henry and Mrs. Carrie A. Nc
Claim of Denver pointed out that
school segregation is spreading in the
North and that the only possible poll
cy for the Negro people interested in
the welfare of their race is to stand
uncompromisingl for mixed schools
and for the right of Negroes to be
teachers in any school regardless of
their color. All speakers heartily
condemned the attitude of some Ne
groes who are confusing the race by
advocating submission to school seq
regation on the ground that it gives
jobs to Negro teachers.
Little for Education of Negroes
1t was pointed out by d. H. Pierce
of Philadelphia that since the advent
of the Khan, the movement against
the Negroes has attained greater pro-
portions. ]. c. Wright Of Jackson
vile Florida showed that the Klan's
drive upon Negro education is becom-
ing intolerable, and that in his city
only $2.12 is spent for the education
of each Negro child, whereas $13.2S
is spent to educate each white child.
Professor Alain L. Locke, professor
of social philosophy of Howard Uni
versity made a brilliant plea for the
discarding of worn-out ideas of the
past and the adoption of the scientific
attitude toward social problems of the
NEGRO. 1--WE are often shocked" he
said, "at radical ideas, even when
those radical ideas come closest to
our needs. We must cease thinking
in the terms of half a generation
back, and must think in the terms of
the present and future. We may often
find that American institutions, when
we have at last won our way into
them, may turn out to be behind the
times, like house that you may buy
at first-hand price, only to find,
after you have bought it, that it is
secondhand property"