The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-06-25
MOST SEGREGATION UNDER
COOLIDGE

guest OF National Equal Rights
League declares segregation greatest
issue before American people. Says
lynching is making Americans murder
GUS in speech at Bunker Hill Monu-
ment
Boston, Mass. Especial to The
Broad Ax).-The National Equal
Rights League and its national head
quarters signalized Salem Race Day"
not only by two-days' commemora-
ton, on the 10th in Faneuil Hall,
Cradle of Liberty" and outdoors at
Bunker Hill Monument on the 18th,
but by having national officer of the
N.A.A.C.P., Prof Neval H. Thomas
Of Washington, local president and
member of the Associations Board Of
Directors, as orator guest for both OBJ
servances, a notable example Of amity
and union Of civil rights organizations
AT Faneuil Hall, in the course of a
great Grafton, one Of the greatest ex-
coriations Of Jim Crowism ever heard
here, Prof. Thomas, leading authority
as to federal segregation, declared en-
phatically:
Segregation is the greatest issue
before the American people, this coun-
try's most widespread evil It is war
against, democracy and human prog
ress, hence against the Constitution of
our country. 1t was invented to kill
the soul and destroy the self respect Of
a great people, and to promote the
conceit and intolerance and the po-
litical, civil and economic advantage
of the dominant group.
Il am thankful for the splendid
traditions Of equality that fill the pages
OF Massachusetts history, but l deplore
the fact that with this same great COM
monwealth in the saddle at Washing
ton there is more segregation than at
any time since the Civil War. In every
department Of the Federal and mu-
nicipal government there is pronounced
discrimination in position salaries,
quotas Of appointments, toilets, rest
rooms and restaurants.
Nearby I saw the statues of Sum
ner, Phillips and Garrison, and with
them those Of Crispus Attacks, and
the black regiments of Civil War fame.
We have just marched from the spot
where black and white blood flowed
in one crimson stream in the Boston
Massacre, and we are here celebrating
the 153rd anniversary Of the daring
and tide-turning heroism Of Peter
Salem and Salem Poor at Bunker Hill
and in the name of all Of these services
and sacrifices let US appeal again and
again to President Coolidge for the
abolition Of every vestige of segrega-
ton from the Federal service and the
Nations capital, most of which can
be done by mere executive order.
This great commonwealth must
not lose her heritage. We must resist
the march of the segregated school, the
un-Christian Us, hospitals, and every
other civil distinction that is SO gener-
ously offered to US"
At Bunker Hill Monument on Fri
day after being the city's guest i'll
viewing the military parade through
the League, which had secured the
presence therein Of the-Peter Salem
Garrison, Army and Navy Union.
Prof. Thomas declared that the license
given lynchings is giving bloodthirsty
homicidal traits to American character
which seriously menace the govern
ment and demanded that President
Coolidge get sincerely behind a federal
anti-lynchng law.
AT both meetings, a Peter Salem
resolution, offered BY w. Monroe
Trotter, was adopted calling upon
President Coolidge to abolish federal
segregation BY executive order, and
to urge and back stronger laws against
peonage and federal anti-lynching
law. A. G. Wolff. Esq, Of the local
Equal Rights League, presided at
Faneail Hall, and Rev. c. c. Somer-
vile, -president-at-large at the
monument.
Mrs. NJ. Cravath Simpson scored
lynchings at Faneuil Hall where Rev.
Chellis v. Smith, white, and Rev. Lee
roy Ferguson also spoke and Rev. B.
w. Swain, first national vice-president
Of the League offered prayer. The
other speakers at the monument were
DR.. Alice w. McKane and Mrs. Min
ME I. Wright. Mr. Thomas was guest
at Boston's big New Parker House
hotel and was entertained by officers