OFFICE OF NEW JERSEY CIVIL RIGHTS BUREAU.

Room 520-800 Broad Street,
Newark, N. J.

December 1st, 1919.

Dear Sir:-

The New Jersey Civil Rights Bureau extends a very cordial invitation to you to attend a STATE CONVENTION to be held under its auspices at Pennington Street, A. M. E. Zion Church, 98 Penn- ington Street, Newark, Friday, December 12th, 1919, at 2 P.M.

The Bureau has been organized in response to a very general demand for an instrument through which the colored people in all sections of the State may cooperate to secure the enactment of an effective CIVIL RIGHTS STATUTE by the Legislature to convene in January, 1920, and it issues this call for a State Convention to promote such cooperation among persons and organizations in the State who wish to work to accomplish this end.

We have no purpose or desire to supplant any existing organization but to form a connecting link between the many influential citizens and organizations in all parts of the State in order that the movement shall have the most thorough and efficient support.

A Legal Committee has been appointed consisting of the following well-known lawyers, Oliver Randolph, George A. Douglas, Newark; Eugene R. Hayne, Robert S Hartgrove, Richard Rice, Jersey City; Issac H Nutter, Atlantic City; Paul K Martin, Camden.

This Committee will prepare and report to the Convention their recommendations as to the bill to be introduced and pressed for passage.

The Convention will elect a Board of Management representative of all sections and interests in the State.

We urge you to assist this movement by attending the convention and request your help to secure a large and representative attendance.

Will you kindly write us the names and addresses of other citizens in your community to whom you desire invitations sent.

Permanent Offices of the Bureau have been located at 800 Broad Street, Newark, (Room 520) in charge of William P Burrell, Corresponding Secretary and A.R.Mayox, Director. The Executive Board of Management will meet Tuesday, 4 P.M. of each week at the offices of the Bureau until the passage of the bill or the adjournment of the Legislature and will be glad to meet all persons who are interested in the movement.

Yours for equal civil rights,

SS. L. Corrothers, D. D.,
E. E. Jackson, D. D.,
W. P. Burrell,
John W. Slater,
B. H. Wyche,
H. W. Barrett,
Wm. Maxwell,
W. H. McDavis, D. D.,
E. A. P. Cheek, D. D.,
J. E. Proctor, M. D.,
T. R. Redd, D. D.,
William Simmons,
A. R. Mayo,
C. M. Brown,
T. T. Tucker, D. D.,
William Lemoyne,