The monitor., 1928-01-06
ADVANCEMENT ASSOCIATION
SUMMARIZES Achievements
Two Victories Before United States Lis
of Legal Battles Waged By Militant Organic alton In
Defense of Constitutional Rights of
American Citizens

New York City-The National AS
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People, has issued a sum
mary of its work and achievements
for the year 1927, leading off with
two victories before the United
States supreme court, those in the
Texas White Primary case and the
New Orleans Residential Segrega-
ton case. The summary is prefaced
by brief statement from the ma
tional secretary, James Weldon john
son, who writes:
There is not a colored man. wo-
man or child in the United States
who is not affected by the work done
through the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
1t is work that radiates into every
aspect of race relations. And, too,
it enlists the support and help of
leading men and women of both
races. Leading attorneys give their
services. Men and women in all
walks of life have given their time,
their labor, and their money to help
realize the associations aims. In so
doing they have contributed to the
full liberation of the Negro in Amer
lea. For the aims of the association
are nothing less than the complete
acceptance as human being and a
citizen, of the American Negro, with
full opportunity to develop himself
to serve his nation, without the Bit
ter handicap Of race discrimination
and prejudice. We present here
with summary of the associations .
work for 1927, confident that it will
commend itself to all liberty loving
Americans"
LEGAL VICTORIES
BY unanimous decision of the
United States supreme court the
N. A. A. C. P. won the Texas White
Primary case nixon VS.. Herndon)
reaffirming the fourteenth amend
ment and declaring void the Texas
law which barred Negroes from the
Democratic party primaries of the
state. Also, by unanimous decision
of the U. S. supreme court the asso-
citation and its New Orleans branch
won case against segregation by
state law and city ordinance in that
city, decision being based upon the
Louisville segregation case won be-
fore the supreme court in 1917. A
victory was also won against segre-
cation in Dallas, on the basis of the
Louisville decision, in the Texas fifth
court Of civil appeals.
This year, too, brought the final
dismissal of the cases against all the
defendants in the Sweet case in De-
troit, following upon the acquittal of
Henry Sweet, the one defendant
chosen by the state for separate trial.
Against school segregation the as
sociation has scored heavily in the
north. A sweeping victory was reg
istered against the attempt to segre-
gate colored children in Toms River,
New Jersey, and in Gary, Indiana,
the attempt to erect $4,000 segre-
gated high school in Difference to
"strike" by white students met de-
cisiye check. The city of Gary not
only paid the costs of an action
brought by N. A. A. C. P. attorneys
but the city council rescinded its ap-
preparation Of $4,000 when the il
legality of this measure had been
established in court. A third school
segregation fight has already been
begun against two segregated schools
in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which
will extend into the year 1928.
The association has intervened in
several cases of extradition where
there seemed probability colored
prisoner would be denied fair trial
if returned to southern state. Elk
tradition of Garret Richardson from
Chicago to Alabama was strenuously
opposed. The case of Edward Glass,
NV in Alabama? (I 7890$- = HMR
now in California, wanted by the
state of Oklahoma, is still being
fought. In one case, that of Samuel
Kennedy, fought through two states,
a Georgia sheriff kidnapped the pris-
oner by collusion with Indiana police
officials.
In the so-called Coffeyviile, Kan