Prayer

FOR DELIVERANCE OF THE COLORED PEOPLE

Our Father who art in Heaven. Hallowed be thy Name.

Hear now, we beseech Thee, the prayer and petition of ten million
American citizens of African descent, who this day approach Thy presence
with one heart and voice. We thank Thee that Thou art no respecter of
races, nations or persons; but all who love and serve find equal favor
with Thee.

Thou didst stoop to the lowly estate of our fathers and mothers in
the darker days of their enslavement, and didst hear their cry for deliver-
ance rising up from the low ground of sorrows. May our faith in Thy
power of deliverance be as simple and sincere and as soul-deep as theirs.
Amidst the distractions and allurements of this worldly day, may we pre-
serve the patrimony of the faith of our fathers.

We do not palliate misdeeds, nor would we shield the wrongdoer from
the just penalty of crime. Let those who sin under the law perish by
the law. But we pray Thee that accusation, suspicion and allegement of
crime may not suffice for proof when one of our number is the victim.
Let not the sins of the wicked be visited upon the heads of the guiltless.

We are slain all the day long in the land of our nativity, which is
the land of our loyalty and of our love. The vials of race vengeance are
wreaked upon our defenceless heads. The inhuman thirst for human blood
takes little heed of innocence or guilt. Any convenient victim identified
with our race suffices to slake the accursed thirst. We are beaten with
many stripes. Our bodies are bruised, burned and tortured and torn
asunder for the ghoulish mirth of the blood lusty multitude. Whenever
such atrocity is perpetrated upon any one of our number, because of his
race, it is done unto us all. Vengeance and wrath are not invoked for
the fit atonement of committed crime, nor yet for the just punishment of
evildoers; but the sinister aim is to depress our spirit, enslave our souls
and to give our name an evil repute in the eyes of the world.

Put it into the hearts of the people and the ruler of our own land that
the true grandeur of this nation will not consist in political dominion or the
mightiness of power or the magnitude of material things, but in justice, love
and mercy.

We pray Thee to enlighten the understanding and nerve the hearts of our
law-makers with the political wisdom and the moral courage to pass the
Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, now hanging in the balance of doubt and uncer-
tainty.

Have mercy upon any of our legislators who may be so embittered with
the gall of race hatred and fettered by the bonds of political iniquity as to
advocate or apologize for lynching, rapine and murder.

Hear our prayer, relieve our distress, preserve our nation and save the
world.

We ask it all for Jesus' sake. Amen.

Mrs. James Weldon Johnson submits the following Report, covering the Supper Dance at Happy Rhone's Orchestra Club, the evening of Tuesday, October 24th.

Through the courtesy of Mr. Rhone, the following ladies Mrs. J. W. Rose, Miss Amanda Kemp, Mrs. Grace Baxter Fenderson, Mrs. A. M. Thompson, Miss Anna L. McCarry and Mrs. James Weldon Johnson, constituting a Committee, were permitted, at the request of Mrs. Johnson to place a Cover Charge on the Tables, the profits therefrom to go to the Anti-Lynching Crusaders. Mrs. Rose, Chairman of the Entertainment Committee immediately endorsed the idea as presented and without advertising but through personal approach, the tables were immediately subscribed for.

Selling each chair at the rate of $1.50 we are pleased to report an actual clearance of $449.62. Deducting the amazingly small amount for expenses of $19.40 we turned over to be deposited at the Chelsea Exchange Bank, $430.22.

A copy of the letter of thanks sent to Mr. Rhone and a copy released for this week's local press thanking the Artists, Mr. Rhone and the public are included in my report.

It is the consensus of opinion that the affair was a brilliant success and I am sure that we are happy to have found such unusual willingness for co-operation in the person of Mr. Rhone whoeffaced himself completely in the effort to permit us to make a success of the undertaking.

Submitted, by Mrs. J. W. Rose in the absence of Mrs. J. W. Johnson, Tuesday Evening October 31st at the usual Tuesday meeting at the Y. W. C. A.

To be filed with the Secretary's minutes, Mrs. Alexander.

Relative to the report from the publicity service, I should like to say that the Foreign Press Service through the courtesy of Mr. Kennady, managing director, gave us a story to cover the press of all foreign countries a copy of which is in the possession of Mrs. Helen Curtis to be reproduced for further distribution as an example of opinion expressed by the New York papers in one week.

Mrs. Grace Baxter Fenderson of Newark succeeded in getting into the League for Women Voters publication a copy of the prayer, and a striking article about the Anti-Lynching Crusaders also an editorial in the leading Newark paper, The Newark Ledger.

ANTI&LYNCHING CRUSADERS SUPPER-DANCE BRILLIANT SUCCESS
at
Happy Rhones Orchestra Club.

The Committee wishes to announce that the proceeds
derived from the cover charges at Happy Rhones Orchestra
Club Tuesday Evening the 24th of October amounted to $430.22

The ladies constituting the Committee wish to extend
their thanks to Mr. Rhone for his generous co-operation.

The following Artists who donated their services were:

Toppin's Entertainers, Messrs. Clarence Bush, Fred Weaver,
Juan Harrison, Hughie Walker who rendered excellent numbers;
Mme. Lulu Robinson-Jones, the Harlem Songbird, rendered Colo-
ratura numbers and was warmly appreciated; Miss Amanda Kemp's
Dancing Dolls were riotously received; Miss Trixie Smith was
presented thru the co-operation of her Manager, Mr. Harry Pace
rendering latest Hits from the Black Swan Albums; Mr. C. Car-
roll Clark, Baritone of Note rendered two of his favorites and
Mr. and Mrs. C. Kamba Simango of Sierra Leone, West Africa
gave a striking presntation of African recitation and a Native
Dance; Miss Alberta Hunter, the Paramount Record Artiste was
an instantaneous "*it"; Mrs. Blanche Deas-Harris rendered
two Coleridge-Taylor numbers accompanied by Miss Cecelia Butler
to the appreciation of all and Society's Favorite, Broadway
Jones, accompanied by Leslie Hutchinson rendered some of his
greatest presentations amid a shower of applause.

To the friends who subscribed to the tables and made the
affair a brilliant success by their presence the Committee
thanks also

$LOGAN: A Million Women United for the Suppression og
Lynching.

Directions for Buffalo Key Women

This Crusade promises to be the biggest and swiftest movement
ever undertaken by Colored women. The women of the race have always
stood by the men in the hour of need. The hour has come when their help
is most needed and they should stand firmly together to sweep away this
evil which is not only an injustice that falls most heavily upon the
negro, but which makes our nation a by-word of scorn. 2000 of the most
prominent White Women in the country has joined us, leading, outstand-
ing women.

1st. Attend sunrise prayer Meeting October 1st - 7 A. M. Michigan Avenue Baptist Church - "To your knees and don't stop praying" until God answers. Some of the clergymen will be present and will speak.

2nd. Wear your button daily until December 31st.

3rd. Obtain receipt book from Mrs. Adelaide Hamilton Tucker, at 179 Clinton Street (Black Swan Record Shop) and fill your book. Return same to her.

4th. Pray every day at noon.

5th. Sacrifice every nonessential either during 1st week of October, Nov. ember or December. Give this sacrifice to stop lynching - after reading the following account of a lynching can you afford to remain quiet?

HERRIN AND TENNESSEE

The special grand jury in Williamson County, Illinois, is finish-
ing its investigation of the Herrin mine killings of last June. Forty-
eight indictments have been returned and others, doubtless, will be
voted before the final report is made.

It was a difficult thing to do. It took weeks of tireless en-
deavor on the part of President Harding, and he was frequently compelled
to acknowledge his inability as an executive to deal effectively with
the situation. He frankly admitted that he was shocked to find that
the government of the United States is powerless to protect the people
against the two organized interests that control one of the prime nec-
essities of life.

Attention is being called to the fact that the men are indicted
not because they are union men, but for murder, for conspiracy to commit
murder, and for rioting. They will not be put on trial as Union miners,
but as men who are charged with murder and bloody violence. It is im-
portant that this be kept in mind, for attempts will be made by both
labor and capital to paint these traits in borrowed colors.

Yet, how comparatively simple would have been the whole procedure
had the Dyer bill been a law. There would have been no confusion in the
issue, and we would not have had the spectacle of a President going to
Congress to ask for power to protect the alien -- two Mexicans were
killed in the Herrin massacre -- when thousands of American citizens
are being lynched without the protection of their government.

The Herrin butchery," as the newspapers, Congressmen, Chief
Executive, in fact all America calls the affair. Do you remember the
pitiable story of the occurrence? Read it again, but as you do so,
read the following account of a lynching which occured in this country,
in Tennessee. No, it was not the Turks murdering Armenian Christians,
nor the barbarians putting to death their enemies; it was Americans
torturing Americans, in America, witnessed by hundreds of other
Americans;

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"The Negro was seated on the ground and a buggy axle driven into the ground between his legs. His feet were chained together with logging chains and he was tied with wire. A fire was built. Pokers and flatirons were procured and heated in the fire. It was thirty minutes before they were red hot. His self-appointed executors burned his eyeballs with red hot irons. When he opened his mouth to cry for mercy a red hot poker was rammed down his gullet. Red hot irons were placed on his feet, back and body until a hideous stench of burning human flesh filled the Sabbath air of Dyersburg. Thousands of people witnessed this scene. They had to be pushed back from the stake to which the Negro was changed. Roof tops second-story windows and porch tops were filled with spectators. Children were lifted to shoulders that they might behold the agony of the victim. A little distance away, in the public square, the best citizens of the country supported the burning and torturing with their nearby presence.

The Memphis News-Scimitar thus describes the scene:

Not a domino hid a face. Everyone was unmasked. Leaders were designed and assigned their parts. Long before the mob reached the city the public square was choked with humanity. All waited patiently. Women, with babies, made themselves comfortable.

At last the irons were hot.

A red streak shot out; a poker in a brawny hand was boring out one of the Negro's eyes. The Negro bore the ordeal with courage, only low moans escaping him. Another poker was working like an auger on the other orbit.

Swish. One, twice, three times a red hot iron dug gaping places in Latin Scott's back an sides.'Fetch a hotter one,' somebody said. The execution went on.

Now some one had another poker - jabbing its fiery point into the ribs of the doomed black.

Then rubbish was piled high about the agonized body, squirming beneath its load.

More and more wood and rubbish were fed the fire, but at 3 o'clock Lation Scott was not dead. Life fled at 4 o'clock. Women scarely changed countenance as the Negro's back was ironed with the hot brands. Even the executioners maintained their poise in the face of bloody creases left by the irons-irons which some housewife had been using.

Three and a half hours were required to complete the execution."

## QUITING SO

"Georgians" says the New York Tribune, "are going to be hard put to it to devise a fitting punishment for the Negro who had the effrontery to escape from the band of lynchers."

POPULATION SHOWING TOWNS HAVING THE LARGEST
NUMBER OF COLORED PEOPLE.

<table><tbody><tr><td>New York</td><td>153,088</td><td>Omaha</td><td>-10,315</td></tr><tr><td>Philadelphia</td><td>134,098</td><td>Pensacola</td><td>-10,404</td></tr><tr><td>Washington</td><td>109,976</td><td>Galveston</td><td>9,988</td></tr><tr><td>Chicago</td><td>109,594</td><td>Jackson, Miss.</td><td>9,936</td></tr><tr><td>Baltimore</td><td>108,390</td><td>Waycross</td><td>9,918</td></tr><tr><td>New Orleans</td><td>100,918</td><td>Roanoke</td><td>9,300</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham</td><td>70,217</td><td>Miami, Fla.</td><td>9,270</td></tr><tr><td>St. Louis</td><td>69,603</td><td>Vicksburg</td><td>9,148</td></tr><tr><td>Atlanta</td><td>62,747</td><td>Columbus, Ga.</td><td>9,093</td></tr><tr><td>Memphis</td><td>61,173</td><td>Dayton</td><td>9,029</td></tr><tr><td>Richmond</td><td>54,047</td><td>Camden</td><td>8,513</td></tr><tr><td>Norfolk</td><td>43,477</td><td>Tulsa</td><td>8,442</td></tr><tr><td>Detroit</td><td>41,532</td><td>Lynchburg</td><td>8,355</td></tr><tr><td>Jacksonville</td><td>41,479</td><td>Oklahoma City</td><td>8,269</td></tr><tr><td>Louisville</td><td>40,118</td><td>Jersey City</td><td>7,947</td></tr><tr><td>Savannah</td><td>39,195</td><td>E. St. Louis</td><td>7,433</td></tr><tr><td>Pittsburgh</td><td>37,688</td><td>Chester</td><td>7,119</td></tr><tr><td>Nashville</td><td>35,634</td><td>Youngstown</td><td>6,660</td></tr><tr><td>Indianapolis</td><td>34,690</td><td>Evansville</td><td>6,400</td></tr><tr><td>Cleveland</td><td>34,474</td><td>Jackson, Tenn.</td><td>6,299</td></tr><tr><td>Houston</td><td>33,843</td><td>Denver</td><td>6,085</td></tr><tr><td>Charleston, S. C.</td><td>32,292</td><td>Toledo</td><td>5,690</td></tr><tr><td>Kansas City, Mo</td><td>30,706</td><td>Gary</td><td>5,299</td></tr><tr><td>Cincinnati</td><td>29,636</td><td>Harrisburg</td><td>5,256</td></tr><tr><td>Dallas</td><td>24,023</td><td>Buffalo</td><td>4,517</td></tr><tr><td>Mobile</td><td>23,893</td><td>Topeka</td><td>4,297</td></tr><tr><td>Portsmouth</td><td>23,242</td><td>Minneapolis</td><td>3,943</td></tr><tr><td>Macon Ga.</td><td>23,091</td><td>Terre Haute</td><td>3,646</td></tr><tr><td>Augusta</td><td>22,576</td><td>Wichita</td><td>3,543</td></tr><tr><td>Columbus, O.</td><td>22,091</td><td>St. Paul</td><td>3,379</td></tr><tr><td>Montgomery</td><td>19,826</td><td>Okmulgee</td><td>3,372</td></tr><tr><td>Chattanooga</td><td>18,866</td><td>Rome, Ga.</td><td>3,326</td></tr><tr><td>Shreveport</td><td>17,485</td><td>Covington</td><td>3,041</td></tr><tr><td>Little Rock</td><td>17,474</td><td>Huntington</td><td>2,890</td></tr><tr><td>Newark</td><td>17,010</td><td>Springfield, Ill.</td><td>2,769</td></tr><tr><td>Boston</td><td>16,362</td><td>East Orange</td><td>2,377</td></tr><tr><td>Ft. Worth</td><td>15,896</td><td>Bridgeport</td><td>2,256</td></tr><tr><td>Charlotte, N. C.</td><td>14,641</td><td>Milwaukee</td><td>2,234</td></tr><tr><td>Columbia, S. C.</td><td>14,455</td><td>Peoria</td><td>2,131</td></tr><tr><td>Kansas City, Kas.</td><td>14,405</td><td>Yonkers</td><td>1,939</td></tr><tr><td>San Antonio</td><td>14,355</td><td>Johnstown</td><td>1,639</td></tr><tr><td>Petersburg</td><td>13,608</td><td>Wheeling</td><td>1,619</td></tr><tr><td>Wilmington, N. C.</td><td>13,461</td><td>Rochester</td><td>1,599</td></tr><tr><td>Beaumont</td><td>13,210</td><td>Portland, Ore.</td><td>1,556</td></tr><tr><td>Lexington</td><td>12,450</td><td>Ft. Wayne</td><td>1,476</td></tr><tr><td>Knoxville</td><td>11,302</td><td>Canton, O.</td><td>1,349</td></tr><tr><td>Atlantic City</td><td>10,948</td><td>El Faso</td><td>1,331</td></tr><tr><td>Wilmington, Del.</td><td>10,746</td><td>South Bend</td><td>1,275</td></tr><tr><td>Bessemer</td><td>10,561</td><td>Syracuse</td><td>1,263</td></tr></tbody></table>