The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-12-02
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BY Hobart +. Mitchell

By Hobart i. Mitchell
w. e. b. Dubois was seventeen
years of age when he entered Fisk
university Louis Tompkins
/ Wright entered Harvard Medical
School ut the age Of twenty years
BY the census Of 1871, there
were in Virginia 1866 Negroes.
The Georgia State Commission on
Race Cooperation, composed Of
white women, representing women's
organizations of that state, said, in
| 1921: I'VE realize that the race
| question is one Of the causes Of
lawlesshess. strife and unrest. There
fore, we propose to face it square
III, honestly and without prejudice,
| that righteousness and justice may
| be secure for ali the people.
|
The beginning Of our Wednesday
night prayer meetingsA manu-
script preserved in the library Of
the Massachusetts Historical Soci-
ETY.. Cotton Mather, in the year
1893 wrote as follows: Besides the
| other praying pious meetings which
have been continually serving in
our neighborhood, d little after this
period company of poor Negroes,
of their own accord, addressed me,
tor countenance to decision which
hey had, Of erecting such meet
ing for the welfare Of their mis-
cradle nation, that were servants
anlong us.
Father Divine, whose followers
afe said to number more than ten
million, has placed the word Peace
on more tongues than any man in
tile world General Robert 4.
Lee emancipated his servants with
ii eight days after the proclama-
tssn was issued.
on page 251, The Negro ii Our
History. by Carter G, Woodson,
rs. p. wrote: Most Negroes who
III Congress during the eighties
asd nineties, had more formal edu-
tion than the late Warren G.
/ arding, ex-President OF the United
S ates.
In 1860 there were Negro men
of voting age in New Hampshire,
/ 49,; II Vermont, l94. in Massach-
usett. 2,5l2, and ii New York,
l2,9s9 who could vote and DID.
Who was the first Christian cons
vert il Europe2 (Aets XVI, 1d)
What emperor banished all the
Jews from Rome? (Aets XVIII. y
Who was the FIRST Apostle to raise
dead person to life? (Acts TX,
100
u
On November %, 1861, q Con-
federate parade Of soldiers in New
Orleans. A regiment Of free Negro
soldiers also took part in this same
parade The Picayune tnewspaper)
writes of a review on February q,
/ 1862 We pay deserved compli-
ment to the company Of free men
81 color all dressed, well drilled,
and comfortably uniformed. Most
/ ef these companies have provided
themselves with arms unaided by
| he administration.
Matt Henson, d Negro, a mem
ber IF the Perry North Pole Expe-
dition, WAS the first human being
10 stand on the North Pole.
Maryville, S. s., 1896 This
town, which held its charter since
reconstruction with q colored may
on, town council and one police.
man, is no longer colored, since the
last legislature abolished its charter
because whites were moving in.
During its half century as a mu-
nicipality under control Of Negroes
the iail was almost unused. Ira Nj.
I Roger Of Charleston introduced the
bill in the legislature that dissolved
the charter.
Entire regiments Of Negro
troops, during the Woflds War,
were cited for exceptional valor and
decorated with the Croix de Guer-
re- the 369th, the 371st and the
372nd; while groups of officers and
men Of the s65th, s66th. 37oth and
the first battalion Of the 367th
were also decorated.
4 y
AT the beginning Of the nine
teenth century, one bought an ave-
! rage slave for $500; while in 1860
the price ranged from S1,4o0 to
$4,000.
i From reliable sources comes the
estimate that Harlem (where most