The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-09-26

against Deprivation Of Rights and
Protection BY American Govern
ment and Peoples Days Open
Convention, Oct. 7-o.
10 Fellew Members and all Fellow
Americans Of Color.
The Fall Of this year Of Our Lord
l925 finds Americans OF African de-
scent still unprotected by our Federal
government from The lynching mob
not vouchsafed political rights III fact
II tbs South nor civil rights in the
District Of Columbia, and the National
Capitol building It finds is Still sub
Jected to racial discrimination, inius-
tice and elimination in the Civil
Service, as also in the army and navy
schools and service, even under Re-
publican administrations.
Even more menacing stands out the
continuance Of positive color seerepa-
ton Of government employees in the
Executive Department Of Federal gov
ernment-even whole Colored sepre-
gated sections, a special low status for
race.
Very widespread-and naturally u
under such a governmental example
has become color discrimination and
deprivation, with other CONSEQUENT
maltreatments and molestations. The
white American movement to create
ooior caste, the only public caste in
America, is making Roadway. To an
alarming extent We are being singled
out alone from all the many races Of
Americans for public segregation in
education, transportation, places for
service and accommodation and III III
dustry. This ostracism threatens to
make Of Us the only American civic
outcasts. Public contempt results.
and denial Of livelihood.
Colored America, thus dangerously
clroumstanced, a race Is million
strong in possession OF education, of
churches, businesses, property and
money reaching into billions. the Ma
tional Equal Rights League calls to its
manifest duty, that of doing what
every other oppressed class which won
relief has done, to assemble i'll ma
tlonal convention to consider WAYS.
means and method of action on its
own account, initiative and conception
to combat these menacing wrongs.
Who would be free, themselves must
strike blow" The world today and in
history respects even oppressed races
who, however otherwise aided,
through self-respect and power con
duct some fight Of their own.
Therefore and hereby this League,
which expressed admiration for all Of
the race who did otherwise while at its
last annual meeting advising the race
to nationally support Republicans, in
vites all at its 18th Annual Meeting
one year after, in the Trinity Baptist
Church, Druid Hall Avenue and Nc
Mechen Streets, Baltimore, Rev. Luke
D. Reynolds, pastor, October 10, 1925
I cioea ~ +ba -a,4 " ~ To1a-1 -
eminent, to assemble in an open Ma
tional Race Mass Convention, there to
be held by It, for a general racial get
together on where we are at, and what
we as a great race should ourselves
say and do in organized resistance, as
one asset Of relief added to any and all
other forms.
Come one and all to racial confer
ence; as far as possible let all racial
bodies, religious, fraterna1, literary,
civic, civil rights, send delegates, and
especially let there Be delegates sent
BY the general colored citizenry in
every place, through meetings called
BY Citizens Committees, BY Equal
Rights Committees, or Equal Rights
League branches, even ones newly
formed for this object
Any desired particulars can be at
tanned from the corresponding secre-
tary, VIM Monroe Trotter, Cornhill
Boston, Mass.
Sincerely yours for Equality for my
race,
VIM a. Sinclair, President
2403 Montgomery Ave,
Philadelphia, Penn.