Evening star., 1932-05-21
COLORED TRIBUTE I
/. TO JOHN BROWN
MAY Be REJECTED
Conference Party Goes to
Harpers Ferry for Un-
yelling Today.
WORDS ON MEMORIAL
OPPOSED BY COLLEGE
Sunrise Service to Honor Haitian
Minister at Frederick Douglas
Home in Anaeostia.

Despite the fact college officials have
given word that they will not accept it,
a tablet in memory of John Brown will
be unveiled and presented today to
Storer College, Harpers Ferry, w. Va,
by members of the National Associa-
ton for Advancement of Colored
People.
Delegates Of the association, which
has been holding its annual conference
at Shiloh Baptist Church here this
week, left by bus for the West Virginia
town this morning. They will be guests
of the college, hold the unveiling serv-
ices, including a number of addresses
eulogizing John Brown, and then return
to this city, bringing the tablet, unless
the school officials have change Of
mind.
Objection to the memorial is be-
lieved to be due to its wording, which
the association declined to change de-
spite requests of the. school authorities.
The inscription on the tablet to
which the college officials objected
reads:
Here John Brown aimed at human
slavery a blow that woke a guilty Ma
ton. With him fought Z slaves and
oO44o VI SldNCSs ONCL 4AAo bOGJ
marched 100000 black soldiers and
100000 freedmen, singing Jonn
Browns body lies a moldering in the
grave, but his soul goes marching on"
Several to Speak.
Addresses at Harpers Ferry will be
made by Oswald G.. Willard, editor of
The Nation; j. Max Barber of Phila-
delphia, president of the John Brown
Memorial Association, who will tell Of
plans for a $25.000 memorial to be con-
structed at Lake Placid N. Y, where
the abolitionist leader is buried, and
William E. B. Du Bois of New York
A Sunsan service with Dantes Belle
barde, Haitian Minister, as guest of
honor, will be held tomorrow morning
at the home of Frederick Douglas in
Anacostia. Others who will make ad-
dresses on this occasion are Dr. Carter
c. Woodson and Lucy D. Slowe, dean of
women of Howard University.
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin will
address the final session of the confer
ence in the Washington Auditorium to-
morrow at 3 pm. DR.. Mordecai w.
Johnson, president of Howard Univer-
sity, and Walter White, association sec
retary. who will give a resume of the
years activities will also make speeches.
The eighteenth Spingarn award was
presented last night to DR.. Robert Rus
sa Motion, principal of Tuskegee Insti-
tute, by Senator Cutting of New Mexico
during a session in the auditorium OF
the new Commerce Department Build
ing.
Leadership and Service.
Senator Cutting said the medal was
given DR.. Motion ''for his thoughtful
leadership of conservative opinion and
action on the Negro in the United
States; as shown in the United States
Hospital controversy in Tuskegee; by
his stand for education in Haiti; by his
support of equal opportunity for the
Negro in the American public school
system. and by his. expression of the
best ideals of the Negro in his recent
publications"
The Committee on Award consisted of
Oswald Garrison Willard, DR.. John Hope,
James H. billiard, Gov. Theodore Roosr-
Welt, william E. B. Du Bois. Edwin r.
Embree and Dr. Szcrdacai w. Johnson.
In response, DR.. Motor E:saiscS the
work of the National Association fCs
Advancement of Colorsd People, espr-
cially in the courts. in its use of estab-
lished processes of law to vindicate
claims of the Negro to equality before
the law and to equal rights to life,
liberty and pursuit of happiness. In
this connection he discussed extensively
the Scottsboro case, in which sever
colored youths were condemned to death
in Alabama.
A tribute to Florence Kelley, one or
the founders CT the association. was
made by Miss Lillian D. Wald of New
York, who bore a message also from
Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago,
for Mrs Kelley's work in improving
morals in America"