The Omaha guide., 1936-10-31
Editor Dunjee To
Speak In Omaha
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lNatleS, Eullof DunJee oigaHlzeu All"
headed the state Negro Business
League, and for five years made it
a vital factor in the life of Okla
homa He voluntarily resigned this
position at Muskogee session at the
time when all of the men in the
state insisted he was needed most.
The difficulties. however. which
editor Dunjee was having during
this period, in getting out his news
paper, and financing it. were of
such a nature that he told the men
of the state he could not further
make the sacrifice. in time and
money necessary for leadership in
this field.
In June of 1921. in cooperation
with Gov j. B. Robertson. then the
chief executive of the state, Editor
Roscoe Dunjee helped to organize
the Oklahoma Commission ON Inter
racial Cooperation. Judge J. R. Kea-
ton. Oklahoma City was named
president. and Editor Roscoe Dun
jeo. secretary This organization
had active life for five years.
In 1922 Editor Dunjee was nam
ed a member CT the Executive Com
mitee Of the National Negro Bust
mss League, and was later named
Regional Director, a position he
now holds among the business men
of the nation. L was during this
period that he in 1926. as president
o. the state Negro Business Lea
que branches raised more than
s.. 900 with which to entertain the
National Negro Business League,
at Tulsa, and he was honored with
a place on the program of the Ma
tional Negro Business League both
at st Louis and Detroit sessions.
In 1928 Editor Dunjee was nam
ed Regional Director of the Elk's
Oratorical contest, a position which
he held two years. his entry re-
ceiving a 5000 scholarship at the
Philadelphia meeting In 1890.
In 1880, with the organization of
the state conference of the NAACP.
Editor Dunjee was named as first
and only president. Under his lead
ership, the Negroes of the state
have raised hundred of dollars with
which to defend their rights in the
courts Two notable cases being the
Jess Hollins case which was carried
10 the supreme court Of the United
States and the Segregation Cases
in Oklahoma City, where by habeas
corpus proceeding, and testimony
personally given in the state SUI
preme court by Editor Dunjee.
qualifying an expert witness. the
NAACP, won the greatest victory
that has been won in any southern
court,
Under Editor Dunjee's leader
ship of the NAACP. eighteen act
i've branches have been organized
in Oklahoma. and a. reward for the
work he his done in Oklahoma. Edi-
tor Dunjee was given the "Merit
Award" for outstandind service
during 1884 at the St. Louis ses-
sion of the NAACP. The award was
made in the municipal auditorium
in st. Louis, before more than
the are thousand people.
Although most of his life a Re-
publican, Editor Dunjee annonuc-
ed as an Independent voter in 1881.
supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt
for president. He takes the posi-
ton that minority groups should
attempt to ally themselves with the
forces that control in he political
unit where they reside. In Oklahoma
he insists that Negroes enter the
Democratic primary and vote large
" with the Democrats. His activity
with democrats has extended to his
having managed in a recent cam
paign the candidacy Of Thomas
Anglin, candidate for governor. This
work has of course been done am
ong the Negro groups.
In addition to Mr.. Dungee's other
accomplishments he is N orator of
no mean ability. Frequently APP
pearing before large groups of
white citizens of Oklahoma, and
other places as well as people of his
own race He will devote most of
his speech in answer to the ques-
ton relative to the conditions and
opportunities of Negroes in the
south by the Hon. Perry Howard
and Mr.. Ben Davis. who have been
speaking in Omaha recently in in
terest Of the %candidancy of Mr..
Landon. Being a public character,
and a one-hundred per cent race
man he needs no Introduction. to
most of the Negroes in Omaha who
are well acquainted with him by