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NEGRO RACE HAS COME OF AGE IN
U. S. DECLARES PROF. HARLOW OF
SMITH COLLEGE

Springfield, Mass, July L. That the
Negro race has come of age" in Ameri-
ca and can no longer be denied the
right to full manhood was the assert
ion of Professor S. Ralph Harlow, Of
Smith College, who last night in the
Municipal Auditorium addressed the Ma
tional Association for the Advancement
Of Colored People, now ending its 21st
Annual Conference here.
THE Negro race has come of age here
in America" said Professor Harlow.
LET there be no uncertainty about that
fact. The implications of that fact are
far reaching and merit serions consider
alton on the part of the citizens Of this
country both white and colored. No
race which has produced the leaders OF
thought and action, in the realms OF
science, literature, music drama educa-
ton and religion, such as the Negro race
has produce here in America can be de-
MED the right to full manhood.
"We are met here in this great Con-
ference of the National Association Ter
the Advancement of Colored People not
only to celebrate the coming OF age OF
this splendid association and to take
heart as we contemplate these pastt
twenty-one years of tireless and fear
less effort; but we are here to assert
something of far greater Importance,
the coming of age of race. For the
Negro race in America has not only
claimed its rights to manhood but has
proven it's right during this past quar-
ter of a century of progress"
Professor Harlow asserted that the
intelligence tests given during the army
drafts a few years ago showed that "all
races and all groups have their under
privileged and under-developed members
and said that the present era for the
Negro began when colored leaders in
1906 in the Niagara Movement proclaim
ed the Negroes desire for every right
that belongs to a freeborn American
citizen, political, civil and social" Pro
lessor Harlow said:
This was the assertion of a race
coming of age. All honor to the pio-
neer spirits who blazed the pathway to-
ward manhood for the race. Even
greater is the honor and respect due
them for the unwavering courage and
abiding faith which they have kept thr-
ough these long years for that ideal.
And l rejoice that DR.. Du Bots had
man of the white race like Moorfield
Storey to stand by his side through these
years of struggle and dauntless adven-
ture into untried paths toward freedom.
Professor Harlow named among Ne
groes whose contributions to culture
have since become world famed, Roland
Hayes, the celebrated tenor, James We'll
don Johnson, author, post and the Asso-
ciation's Secretary; Walter White, move
list, and Acting Secretary of the Assoc
citation; c.. C. Spaulding of the North
Carolina Mutual and Anthony Overton OF
the Victory Life Insurance Companies;
Nine. G. ]. Walker, DR.. r. r. Morton OF
Tuskegee; Mrs. Elizebeth Prophet and
Miss Augusta Savage, sculptors; William
Harrison, star of >sGreen Pastures;"
Mordeeai Johnson, president Of Howard
University; Paul Robson singer and
actor; Professor George W. Carver OF
Tuskegee, and others. .
If in 1906 there was justification Tor
proclaiming the right and justic OF clai-
ming for the race manhood" continued
Professor Harlow, and all ne economic,
political and social rights which such
manhood involves among intelligent peo-
pie in nation based on justic to all,
then there is a thousand times greater
Justice inmaking those claims today.
There is growing host of men and
women of the white race who are utter
" determined that unjust discrimina-
ton shall end, that privilege and OPP
portunity shall become the heritage OF
all, that the words we as nation take
upon our lips shall yet be true"
WOODMEN OF UNIONS