THE CRISIS RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES Volume One NOVEMBER, 1910 Number One Edited by W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS, with the co-operation of Oswald Garrison Villard, J. Max Barber, Charles Edward Russell, Kelly Miller, W. S. Braithwaite and M. D. Maclean. CONTENTS Along the Color Line 3 Opinion .... 7 Editorial .... 10 The N. A. A. CP. 12 Athens and Browns­ ville .... 13 By MOORFIELD STOREY The Burden . 14 What to Read 15 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People AT TWENTY VESEY STREET NEW YORK CITY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR TEN CENTS A COPY THE CRISIS AUFERTISER ONE OF THE SUREST WAYS TO SUCCEED IN LIFE IS TO TAKE A COURSE AT The Touissant Conservatory of Art and Music 253 West 134th Street NEW YORK CITY The most up-to-date and thoroughly equipped conservatory in the city. Conducted under the supervision of MME. E. 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Every one recognizes thai the Repub­ lowed lo vote in any election held herein, unless lican party—such as it is in the far Southern he be able lo read and write any section of the Slates—is composed almost wholly of Federal Constitution of the State of Oklahoma; but no officeholders and those who want Federal office. person who was on January 1, 1866, or at any It has been demonstrated time and lime again time prior thereto, entitled to vote under any lhat the delegates to Republican national conven­ form of government, or who at thai lime resided tions from these stales are absolutely venal and in some foreign nation, and no lineal descendant that they uniformly vole with the administration of such person, shall be denied the right lo forces, which purchase them by means of post- register and vote because of his inability to so offices and colleclorships. read and write sections of such Constitution. "Precinct election inspectors having in charge The United Colored Democracy of the Slate the registration of electors shall enforce the pro­ of New York has been organized for the coming visions of this section at the time of registration, campaign. They demand a colored regiment in provided registration be required. Should regis­ the New York National Guard, and also colored tration be dispensed with the provisions of this policemen and firemen. section shall be enforced by the precinct elec­ tion officers when electors apply for ballots lo vole." J. C. Manning and the progressive Republicans This amendment has been voted upon and the in Alabama are fighting Mr. Washington's politi­ votes canvassed, but an official count has not been cal influence in lhat stale. announced, and probably will not be until just before the general election in November. The newly elected Governor of South Caro­ line. Blease, made his fight on a platform op­ The Hon. J. C. Napier will replace the Hon. posing Negro education and prohibition. W. T. Vernon, of Kansas, as Register of the United States Treasury. The Chattanooga Times gives the following reasons for the change; The Negroes of Soulh Carolina gained com­ "It appears now lhat Vernon has outlived his plete control of the Stale Republican Convention. usefulness, since he could not help the administra­ tion to stem the insurgent wave that recently swept over the Sunflower Stale, and lhat his re­ The Hon. P. B. S. Pinchbeck, once Recon­ appointment was contingent on his success in that struction Governor of Louisiana, has been ap­ campaign. It is learned from that day he was pointed to ihe Internal Revenue Service in Cin­ marked for retirement. cinnati, o. "Tennessee Republican politicians readily rec­ ognized the opportunity to make a master stroke The Colored Independent Political League hai and impression on the Negro vote in Tennessee, decided lo support the Democratic ticket in Ohio, by recognizing one of their race with an impor­ New York and New Jersey; the Republican tant office. tickets in Delaware and West Virginia, and >o "Napier for eight years was a member of the favor Senator Bulkeley. of Connecticut, and op­ Republican Stale Committee, but the while mem­ pose Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts. Local In­ bers fell out with him at the recent state con­ dependent organizations are at work in New vention when it was believed thai he had agreed York, Ohio, New Jersey, Utah and Missouri. to use his influence with the Negroes in favor of Patterson. Since he was deposed the committee hat been without Negro membership, and this sop The National Executive Committee of the is held out to pacify the rebellious Negroes all Socialist party have appointed Lena Morrell Lewis over the state." and George A. Goebel a commillee of (wo to investigate the condition of the Negro in America Senator Cummins, of Iowa, will introduce a bill into Congress for direct primaries in select­ Suit has been brought in the United States Cir­ ing candidates for President and Vice-President. cuit Court lo compel the city of Annapolis, MH.. He says: lo register colored voters. Annapolis by city "To me the injustice is plain of permitting the ordinance has attempted to nullify the Fifteenth 4.000 Republicans of Mississippi to cast 20 voles Amendment. 3 4 THE CRISIS The Democratic platform in Missouri says: An industrial school is to be founded in "The Democratic party when it came into Nicodemus, Kansas, a colored colony planted at power in 1871, took over the Lincoln Institute and the time of the exodus. made it a normal school for the higher education of the Negro teachers, and it has always made A. B. Johnson, of Mississippi, states that in his liberal appropriations for that purpose and for the own county with less than 7,000 Negroes of school education of the Negro school children of the age over 5,000 have never been to school. State. It never has and will not discriminate against the Negro, either by criminal laws or on Effort is being made in Washington, D. C, the question of their rights of franchise, and it to iemove R. C. Bruce, the colored superintend­ deplores the action of the present chief executive ent, for alleged Incompetency. of this Slate in seeking to make political capital by creating race antagonism." In a talk to white Atlanla ministers a colored R. S. Rulledge so resents this plank I hat he preacher asked that influence be used lo improve has withdrawn from the race for nomination as public school facilities for the Negroes. He said United Slates Senator. the Negro school children of Atlanta number 10,000 and he declared 5,031 of the number are The colored people of Cleveland, O., have out of school. "The Negroes of this city pay received twenty-three appointments to minor offices $10,000 for education of their children," he lo ie\v a> d I heir support of Mayor Baehr, who stated, "that the whiles get free." defeated i om Johnson. Beside these officials the colo.ed people have a member of the Legisla­ The cily of Chattanooga has refused to lake te e and a memb^. of the City Council. steps toward establishing a Negro normal school. It is much needed. The Negioes of .Atlanta p'epared an elaborate program on the occasion of Theodore Roosevelt's H. T. Kealing, formerly editor of the African speech to them. M. E. Review, has been elected president of Western University, at Quindaro, Kansas. The Republicans have nominaled Thomas Briar, a colored man, to r'in for Congress in the There are a large number of applicants for the Fourth District of South Carolina. position of president of the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute at Frankfort. In the twelve counties of the Eighth Conces­ sional Dislrict of Georgia there were only The colored Baptist Women's Convention has 392 colored men registered as voters. Even voted $15,000 to the Nalional Training School these, however, very nearly held the balance of for Girls in the District of Columbia. power in the last Congressional election. The Negroes of Georgia have raised $25,000 A press dispatch from Panama says: as a memorial offering at the quarterly centennial "It became known to-day that Mendoza sent of Morris Brown College. a messenger asking Colonel Goethals to call al the Presidential palace. The army man, by mes­ The white boys of the Doolittle Public School senger, asked if he was wished personally or in of Chicago have tried to get rid of the Negro his official capacity. Several other notes were pupils. The result has been a good deal of passed back and forth, Goethals finally going. fighting. "When he reached the palace, Mendoza re­ fused to see him. It is said that the snub was caused by Colonel Goetha's drawing the color THE CHURCH.