Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-30
NEGRO LIFE GROUP
TO NAME OFFICERS
Kansas City Branch Worker
Stresses Value to Race
of Study of History.

The Association for the Study Of
Negro Life and History was prepared
to elect officers this afternoon, following
a series Of addresses urging the study
of colored history, and others designed
to show the relation between the color
ed and the poorer classes OF white peo-
pie in the South before and after the
Civil War. The meetings are being
held in the Garnet-PatterSon School.
w. E. Griffin, secretary of the Kansas
City branch of the association, in an
address earlier in the day stressed the
importance to the colored people OF q
thorough study of their history, and
predicted that in a thousand years
hence the colored race in America Will
be forgotten except in history.
In this connection he indicated that
the race will become so absorbed In the
American melting pot, together with q
mental attitude toward achievem zen
without thought Of race, that the Ne
groes, as a race, will not be thought
of separately.
Speakers Tell Of Value.
The following speakers told Of steps
made toward the furtherance OF STUDY
of racial history and stressed its value
to the members of the colored race:
Mrs, H. r. Evans of the washington
Payne of this city, L. S. James OF the
Maryland Normal School, L. P. jackson,
professor of history, Virginia State Col
iege: DR.. Thomas I. Brown Of Morgan
College, Maryland, and others.
An address on Poor Whites and
Negroes in the Ante-bellum South" was
delivered by Prof. A. o. Craven OF the
University of Chicago. Prof CraVens
address was designed to show the re-
lation of the colored slaves to the So
called poor whites" or the white people
of the lowest strata in Southern society.
Another address, Poor Whites and
Negroes in the South Since the Civil
War" was delivered by w. M. Brewer
of the department of history OF the
high schools of Washington.
DR.. Carter G. WoodSon, director OF the
association, spoke at a session last
night on 1.-The Varying Attitude Of the
White Man Toward the Negro" In his
address he stated that the attitude had
changed from time to time, and asserted
that this change in attitude hrst was
responsible for making the Negroes
slaves and later in freeing them. Prof
Donald Young of the University OF
Pennsylvania spoke last night on 1.-THE
Attitude of the White Youth OF To-
day Toward the Negro" describing the
general attitude of the white youth to-
ward the colored race as pessimistic.
Musical Selections Are Given.
Musical selections were rendered last
night by Miss v. Josephine Muse and
| the Howard University Glee Club. A
| reception was given the visiting dele
gates by the Musolit Club at 1927 r
street
An address was delivered by Prof
| S. F. Bemis of George Washington Uni
versity at session of the association
yesterday afternoon in which he tolc
how detailed history of the Negro race
may be obtained at the Library Of Con-
! gress, and described how photostatit
| copies of information contained tr
! various archives of Europe may be seer
at the Library.
An address also was delivered at the
afternoon session yesterday by DR.. G. H
Wesley of Howard University, whose
subject was History and the Negro.
Musical selections were rendered at this
meeting by the Dunbar High School,
Glee Club.
Sessions will be held through this
afternoon and evening, the topic late
this afternoon being The Culture Of
Negroes while tonight the genera
topic will be the Negro as Business
Man"