Evening star., 1937-11-02
NEGRO RESEARCH
SHOWS ADVANCES
Director of Association Re-
ports Progress at 22d An
nuaI Meeting Here.


aging progress during the last year.
DR.. Carter G.. Woodson, director of the
organization, reported today at its
twenty-Second annual meeting in Ses-
sion at the Phillis Wheatley Associa-
tion Building
In addition to the collection of
and historical data and
the dissemination OF such documents
through schools and clubs. purpose
of the association is ito bring about
harmony between the races by inter-
preting the one to the other"
In his annual report, DR.. Woodson
said more treatiSes and dissertations
in the field of Negro life and history
are now available than the association
and its cO-workers can hope to publish
in the next 10 or is years. unless some
special fund for this purpose can be
provided"
DR.. Woodson, who has been en-
gagged in study Of the African back
ground of Negroes before the Euro
pean conquest, will bring out during
the coming year, he announced, a book
entitled, African Heroes and Hero
ines" in a popular form suitable for
schools.
Wane Of White Prestige.
Election of officers was scheduled
to close the business session this aft
ernoon. with the educational meetings
continuing in the evening"
Dominance of Europeans in Africa
"grows more precarious day by day."
Dr. Lloyd A. Cook Of Ohio State Uni
versity said In an address at last
nights session at the Garnet-Patter-
son High School.
DR.. Cook said that of late "a strong
reaction against the European has
set in"
The educator saw growing sense
OF revolt as education and civilized"
ways gradually permeate native Africa.
"On the whole" he said, "the Afri-
cans have been tractable. folk They
have submitted to alien rule with q
kind of unthinking obedience. Unlike
some -literates, they have shown no
clear tendency to fade away as only
raw SavageS can do. The Bantu, for
instance, are probably as prolific and
vigorous as ever They are eager for
book-learning, which to them Is q
kind of white magic remaking the
world.
Europeans Prestige Falls.
"Of late, however, strong reaction
against the European has set in. His
prestige has fallen and his dominance
grows more precarious day by day. It
is no exaggeration to say that wher-
ever the western mode of life has
penetrated, in Africa, the Pacific, Asia
and Latin America, there is found
today some version of the so-called
native problem some kind and degree
of revolt
"All great social changes, once they
are successful, are declared to be
natural and inevitable. Thus the
spread of western culture over the
alleged backward areas of the world
is clothed with the unquestioned re-
Spectability of fait accompli.' And
yet few reflective observers would hold
that the people have received square
deal.
1.-THE present crisis in world affairs,
as illustrated in Africa, has not arisen
because of any great cOsmic process,
but because imperialists have sought
to perpetuate an outmoded set of
human values. and to cling to the
traditional policy of rule or ruin they
put the stamp of approval on an
equally outworn technique of solution.
Difficult though the situation is, it is
not insoluble, if and when men elect
to think through the issues rather
than fight over them
Two Types of Revolt.
DR.. Cook, in his address on "Impe-
rialism: An interpretation" said that
IAN impressive feature of the Euro
pean's conquest of Africa has been the
patient submission of the black man."
He added:
Regardless of such provocations as
are invariably linked with imperialistic
impact of cultures, native revoltS have
been few in number. When they have
come, as they have with increasing
since the World War, they
have taken two major forms. One is
the so-called prophet risings, the other
the more definitely race-conscious re-
bellion along economic and political
lines"
Revolts inspired by tribal prophets,
he pointed out, date back to time
and are more eleme. tary
and unorganized in nature" Usually
these leaders attribute their inspira-
ton to what has seemed q compelling
vision Of redemption for their tribes"
An element in revolt, DR.. Cook said,
"is the rising standard Of living, which
shows an increase in tine consumption
Of goods by the natives and the devel-
opment of new wants"
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