Evening star., 1937-11-03
NEGROL|FESTU
MEETINGS ENDED
Plan to Raise Funds for
Publication of Researches
Is Adopted.

The Association Tor the STUDY OF
Negro Life and History, in session here
for three days, concluded its twenty
second annual meeting today, after
adopting plan to raise special fund
for the publication Of valuable dis
sertations and monographs which
otherwise would languish in manu-
script.
The difficulty of placing the results
OF scientific research in book form,
because of the limited sale of such
material, w@ pointed out, and the
delegates held that the preservation
Of many Of these documents will prove
OF great value to the race.
The meeting next year will be held
IN Oklahoma City or New York City,
. final decision to be made by the
Executive Board.
In the annual awards for the best
articles contributed to the Journal of
Negro History during the year, an
nounced at the session last night, the
first prize of 500 went to a white
educator. The winner was Prof James
A. Padgett Of Brenau College, Gaines
vile, Ga.
The second prize of $50 went to
James A. Browning of Miner Teach
ers' College. Washington.
For the best book review of the year,
J. Welfred Holmes, jr., instructor in
history at Winston Salem IN. c.
Teachers College, won the first award
Of $50. The second prize of s25 went
to Richard Pattee Of the University of
Puerto Rico.
Papers Are Read.
Papers read at the session included
1.-THE Gddings Resolution" by DR..
W. Sherman Savage of Lincoln Uni
versity, Mo, and THE Negro in the
Reconstruction of Tennessee" by DR..
A. A. Taylor, dean of Fiske University.
ITO remarkable degree" DR.. Tay-
lor said, "the forces which were at
work among the Negroes during re-
construction have not merely deter
mined what Negroes are doing today,
but are likely to determine what they
may do in the near future. For these
reasons, then, definite history of the
Negroes in their new status during
the period of reconstruction will con-
stitute significant chapter in the
annals of this country"
DR.. Taylor said it was regrettsble
that most of the works dealing with
this era have not met the require
ments Of historical scholarship" He
added:
The writer's generally have been
biased. Some have written with utter
disregard to dispassionate presenta-
ton of facts. These authors have writ
ten to prove that the Negro is not
capable of participation in government,
and to Justify the methods of intimida-
ton and fraud used to overthrow the
reconstruction governments Of the
Southern States"
These historians, DR.. Taylor said,
"were impelled by sef-interest to use
such sources and such facts as would
establish their points Of view and to
ignore others"
Despite the high quality Of such
works as BLACK Reconstruction" by
W. Z. B. Dubois, DR.. Taylor said, the
reconstruction era remains 4 fertile
field for Investigators who are eager to
make q sincere, intelligent and scien-
tinc search for truth"
At the annual business meeting the
delegates reelected Mary Mcleod Be-
thune Of Daytona, Fla, president. L.
II. Mehlinger of Washington secre-
tary-treasurer and DR.. Carter G.
Woodson of Washington director and
editor Of the Journal Of Negro History.
Dr.. Woodson founded the organization
In Chicago in 1915.
Roscoe Dunjee of Oklahoma City
was added to the executive council.
Other members, reelected. are the
ofncers and Charles H. Wesley, Wash
inston; John M. Candy. Virginia
State College; Lucy Harth Smith,
Lexington, KY; Evarts B. Greene, New
York City; Joseph j. Rhoads, Bishop
College; John C.. Bruce, Washington;
w. r. Banks, Prairie View State COL
lese; Alexander L. Jackson, Chicago;
A. M. Schlesinger, Howard University;
Bishop r. A. Carter, Chicago; DR..
Taylor, Fiske University, Nashville,
Tenn; T. Wingate Todd, Western Re-
serve University, and H. Council Tren-
holm, Alabama State College.
Musical Group Heard.
Music at the closing scientific ses.
sion included numbers by the st.
Georges String Quartet, with Louia
Vaughn Jones first violin and direc-
tor; DR.. w. Montague Cobb, second
violin; DR.. j. Richard Laurey, viola.
and Walter L. Brown, cello. Piano
selections were given by Peggy Marie
Lucas. student in the School Of Music
1t Howard University.
The closing sessions included a dis
cusslon OF THE British Anti-Slavery
Society. with special reference to the
United States" by DR.. Thomas p.
Martin, acting chief of the manu-
script division Of the Library Of Con-
gress
Delegates were taken on a tour of
washington and vicinity this morn
ing. Visits to Arlington and Mount
vernon were included. Col w. A.
Hamilton, a member of the Poard of