EVENTS AND PERSONS.
Mrs. Harry Williams of 2414 Bin
ney street, returned Monday of this
week from an extended visit to the
Panama exposition.
Prof, and Mrs. J. W. Bundrant re
port a financial as well as a social
success on their return from Lincoln,
where they recently gave a recital.
Standing room was at a premium
at St. John’s Thanksgiving night to
witness the play by the DuBois Dra
matic club. Miss Hazel Perry is
destined to become a real artist in
the dramatic world, as is Mr. Andrew
Reed and Miss Beatrice Majors, who
held the standard of the DuBois club
and received rounds of applause and
congratulations. Mrs. Jessie Moss
carried the audience in her renditions
from Dunbar, as did Mrs. C. B.
Wilks and Miss Darlene Duval, who
rendered well their beautiful solos.
The DuBois Dramatic club will ap
pear at Mt. Zion Baptist church De
cember 17 in “The Veiled Lady.” The
past reputation of the club assures
good audiences, as they are giving
the small church plays with as much
interest and strong acting as they
do their three and four-act dramas.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Bush enter
tained at Thanksgiving dinner, the
Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Osborne.
Mr. Oscar Johnson and Miss Ethel
Smith of Chicago were married at
the A. M. E. parsonage Saturday at
high noon by Rev. W. T. Osborne.
A party was given Wednesday
evening by the Misses Myrtle and
Pansy Newland in honor of their S’S
ter Annie’s seventeenth birthday an
niversary.
WOMAN’S CLUB.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Colored Omaha Woman’s club
will be held at the residence of the
president, Mrs. L. Gray, 1211 Mis
souri avenue, Tuesday at 2:30 p. m.
All members are requested to be
present. At 8 o’clock the same eve
ning the “Don’t Worry Club” will be
organized properly into the state fed
eration by the state organizer, Mrs.
Ophelia Safford.
At the residence of Mrs. Brownloe,
2810 Ohio street, a musical-tea will
be given under the auspices of the
Women’s club Tuesday evening, De
cember 14, for the benefit of
charity. Hours, 3 to 5 p. m., 8 to |
11 p. m. I
A silver offering.
Mrs. L. Gray, president; Mrs. B.
Bostick, secretary.
TO DEBATE AGAINST YALE.
Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 3.—The Syra
cuse University debating team will
meet in their annual debate against
Yale on Dec. 6 in New York. L. B.
Williams will be one of the members
of the Syracuse team.
KILLED IN BATTLE.
All of the thirteen Americans in the
French Foreign Legion were killed in
one of the recent engagements in
France. Among them was Bob Scan
lon, a former colored prize fighter.
SOME IMPORTANT FACTS OF RECONSTRUCTION.
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teachers from the North were driven from communities. This wholesale
assassination was kept up from 1865 to 1876, when the so-called reconstruc
tion governments fell.
The Silas Lynch shown in this malignant picture is supposed to he Robert j
Ulliott. Here he is shown as a weak half-trained Negro, when, in fact, Robert 1
Uliiott was a graduate of Oxford university, England. He did more than any ,
other man, save Sumner and Douglas, to fix the civil and political status of
the colored people.
Stoneman of this play was Fhaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania. Here
he is sliowo as having a colored mistress. His butler told ine that this was a
malicious invention, as we may well believe, tor at that time Thaddeus Stevens
was 77 years of age. Much, too, is made of his reconstruction program. At
that time President Johnson came forward with a program, not very different
in its terms from the congressional plan, hut Congress contended that it alone
had the right to evolve a plan for reconstruction and re-admission of the|
Southern states to the Union. Stevens as the leader in the House of Repre
sentatives and Sumner as the senate leader properly held that under section
3 of Article 4 of the Constitution of the United States, Congress alone could
fix the rules for the admission ot the seceded slates. Congress did fix those
mles and the seceded states were re-admitted under them. The Negroes were
given the ballot. And while they made mistakes, their gift of the public school
system to the South by its wise exercise quite overshadows them. They made
it possible for colored men and women to ride as passengers on trains and
boats, to serve as jurors in courts, to testify as witnesses in our judicial tribu
nals and to hold public office. 1 grew up amid the scenes of reconstruction.
I know many men and women who were in the thick of that fight, and I am
weary of reading and hearing apologies for what was done by the benefactors
of democracy and the nation, in that day.
As to the charge in this play that the ignorant Negro is predisposed to
ward rape on white women, the authors are respectfully referred to the rec
ords made by the Negro during the war. But the effrontery of the white men
of the South in mentioning the relations between the sexes is appalling, when
it is recalled that the majority of the leading white men of the' South made it
a business for two hundred and fifty years to .ape their hound and fettered
Negro women. And so far as I have been able to ascertain, ours was the only
slavery in all the history of mankind in which such a monstrous crime was
committed.
I have set down these facts in a general way that you may use them, if
desirable, in, this or any other form. And I wish that the colored youth and
the white would examine these facts in the various works on this question.
Much of what I have set down is found in the works or writings of Albion W.
Tourgee; “The Rise and Fall of Slavery,” by Henry W. Smith; the “After
math of Slavery,” by Win. A. Sinclair; “Facts of Reconstruction,” by John R.
Lynch, and the congressional reports of federal investigation into southern
atrocities. They will find, as I think I have, that the North was right and the
South was wrong, and that the situation is much the same today.
But a sinister influence is indeed abroad when this play can come into
our community and teach the lies it does with the acquiescence of the author
ities and the management ot the playhouse.
Very truly yours,
H, J. PINKETT.
Omaha, Neb., November 27, 191">.
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