The monitor., 1928-11-02
NEGRO Il aERs
UNITE IN .PPEAL
AGAINST Prejudice
Representatives of Three Political
Parties, Editors, Educators, Clergy
and Social Workers Issue
Protest
DEcRY DEFAMATION OF RACE
Would Arouse Conscience of White
America to Repudiate Sinister
Campaign of Racial
Hatred

New York City, Nov. An appeal
to America, signed by leading Ne
groes in all walks of life throughout
the United States, against race pref
udice, which it is charged, has been
injected in the presidential campaign
by both republican and democratic
parties, was made public recently by
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, from
their national offices. The list of
signers, headed by Robert R. Motion,
head of Tuskegce Institute; w. E. B.
Du Bois, editor of The Crisis maga-
zine; and DR.. John Hope, president
of Morehouse college, includes men
and women, editors, politicians,
churchmen, and the civil service COM
missioners of New York and Cleve-
land.
The appeal warns that "bad as re-
ligious hatred and evil personal Cos
sip are, they have not the seeds of
evil and disaster that lie in continued
unlimited and unrestrained appeal to
race prejudice
The statement characterizes as "an
appeal to the lowest and most prim-
tive of human motives" the "em-
phasis of racial contempt and hatred
which is being made in this political
campaign" and asserts that "as long
as this appeal can successfully be
made, there is for this land no real
peace, no sincere religion, no nation
al unity, no social progress, even in
matters far removed from racial con-
troversy"
The appeal lists as among the OBJ
jectionable utterances of "partisans
of the leading candidates." the fol-
lowing:
That Negro voters should not be
appealed to, or their support well
coined by advocates of just causes.
That colored persons should not
hold public office, no matter what
heir character may be nor how well
they do their work, nor how COM
pletely they satisfy their constitu-
ents.
That the contact of white people
and black people in government, in
business, and in daily life, in COM
mon effort and cooperation, calls for
explanation and apology.
That the honesty and integrity of
party organization depend on the
complete removal of all Negroes from
voice and authority.
That the appointment of a public
official is an act which concerns only
white citizens, and that colored citi-
zens should have neither voice nor
consideration in such appointments.
The signers CT the appeal, whose
names are being added to by tele-
graph, are as follows:
R. R. Motion, principal of Tuskegee
Institute, Tuskegee, Ala; W. E. B.
Du Bois, editor, Crisis magazine, New
York City; Mordecai w. Johnson,
president, Howard university, Wash
ington, d. c.; Harry E. Davis, civil
service commissioner, Cleveland,
Ohio; George G. Clement, Bishop, A.
E. E. Zion church, Louisville, KY;
Sallie w. Stewart, president, Nation
al Association of Colored Women,
Evanston, ILL.,; c. C. Spaulding, pres
ident, North Carolina Mutual Insur-
ance company, Durham, N. c.; James
Weldon Johnson, secretary, The Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, New York
City; Fred r. Moore, alderman of
the city Of New York, editor of The
New York Age; Eugene X. Jones,
secretary of the National Urban
league, New York City; w. T. B.
Williams, field agent of Jeanes and
Slater Funds, Tuskegee Institute,
Tuskegee, Ala; Walter White, assis-
tant secretary, The National Associ-
alton for the Advancement of Col
ored People, New York City; C. A.
Barnett, director, Associated Negro
Press, Chicago, ILL.,; r. Nathaniel
Dett, head of the Department of Mus
sic, Hampton Institute, Hampton,
Va; Ferdinand @. Morton, municipal
civil service commissioner, New York
City; Mary Mcleod Bethune, presi-
dent, Bethune- Goodman college, Day