Evening star., 1933-10-22
Outstanding Negro Leaders
To Meet in Welfare Parlev
Promotion of Culture and
Understanding Among
Races Aim.
Conference to Open Sun.
day With Statement
by Wilkinson.

Bringing to Washington outstanding
members of the race, the annual meet
ing of the Association for the Study Of
Negro Life and History will convene
here next Sunday afternoon. Its aim
will be the promotion of Negro culture
and welfare and of understanding
among the races.
At the first session the keynote of
the meeting will be sounded by dis
cussion of the subject, What We
Should Teach the Negro Child About
Himself and About Others in Relation
to Himself
G. c. Wilkinson, first assistant super
intendent of schools in charge of col
ored schools, will open the meeting
with an Introductory statement on the
Importance and timely quality of the
topic. and then will introduce the
speakers, President Joseph j. RhoadS
of Bishop College, Marshall. Tex. and
DR.. Arthur D. Wright. president of the
John F. Slater Fund of the District Of
Columbia. The same subject will come
in for further discussion in round table
fashion Tuesday morning. At that
time the speakers will include Prof.
Herman Dreer of the Sumner High
School. st. Louis; DR.. F. M. Wood,
supervisor of schools in Baltimore;
Prof. j. H. N Waring of the Down.
ingtoWn Industrial School of PennSyl-
vania; Dean c. w. Gore of the State
Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. and
President Eugene A. Clark of the Miner
Teachers College here.
School Visit Planned.
Sunday. from 6 to s pm. there will
be a reception for the visitors at the
Phyllis Whcatlcy Young WOmen'S S
Christian Association. On Monday
they will be conducted through the
local public schools by H. H. Long, as
sistant superintendent of schools.
Late Monday afternoon 'get-ac-
ouainted dinner" will be held in the
WhitelaW Hotel, where DR.. Mason A,
Hawkins of the Frederick Douglass
High School of Baltimore DR.. w N
Higgins. high school instructor of New
York City. and Mrs. Lucy Harth Smith
of the Booker T. Washington High
School, Lexington, KY, will make ad-
dresses.
That evening there will be "An Eve
ming With Negro Musicians jim the
Garnet-PatterSon Junior High School
Auditorium. H. Laurence Freeman, a
composer we'll known here and abroad
for his IA operas. will speak Five other
outstanding artists will appear in a
series of selections. They are Miss
Camille Nickerson, pianist who has
made a special study of Creole music
R. Todd Duncan, baritone; William
D. Allen. well known pianist: Nine.
Lillian Evanti, who has achieved dis
tinction in operas during five years
ND rd ~, ,I
Clarence Cameron White one of the
most noted violinists of his time, who
recently became famous for his new
opera, "Ouanga," the result of syste-
matte study in France.
Paintings to Be Exhibited.
Tuesdays program calls for "An
Afternoon With Negro Artists There
will be both an exhibit and demonstra-
ton at the National Museum. Two
rooms will be set aside for the display
of the works of the outstanding Negro
painters and sculptors which have been
assembled in cooperation with the art
department of Howard University and
the Harmon Foundation of New York
City. Manuscripts of the foremost
Negro musical compositions of modern
times also will be exhibited. DR.. Alain
Locke, of Howard University, will de-
liver an illustrated lecture on Negro
art. The exhibit will be open to the
public throughout the week.
An Evening With Negro Poets" will
be held Tuesday night at the Garnet
Patterson School. The address will be
given by Prof. Benjamin Brawley of
Howard University, who then will in
trOduce a number of poets who will
read their best poems. Among the poets
expected to be present are Sterling A.
Brown of this city, Georgia Douglass
Johnson, also of Washington: Alice
Dunbar Nelson of Philadelphia. Leslie
P. Hill of Cheyney. Pa. and Countee
P. Cullen of New York City.
Literature to Be Studied.
Discussion of the teaching of modern
languages and literature in Negro
schools will engage the association
Wednesday morning. To be consid-
cred is the question of how books by
French authors who have treated the
Negroes 'as a human being rather than
as pariah of society,"" may be edited
for use by Negro students in this coun-
try.
A plan for the editing and publi-
cation of such texts will be worked out
at this meeting to supply the increas-
ing demand fer this literature in the
various educational centers of the coun-
try.
Dean E. P. Davis of Howard Uni
versity will preside at the Wednes-
day morning session and the speakers
will include DR.. w. N Rivers of A.