The Monitor
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ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE ;
UNITED STATES -
Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged !!
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1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ! I
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the ;;
United States and of the State wherein they reside. No ;;
state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ! I
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor ;;
shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- ;
erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person I
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COOLIDGE 18 BIGHT
/"’OOLIDGE will be commended by all
■ right-thinking Americans for his
refusal to yield his constitutional pre
• rogatlves to the United States Senate
in its demand for the removal of Sec
retary Denby. If the senators who
voted for and virtually commanded
President Coolidge to demand Denby’s
resignation were actuated by) sincere
motives they would have taken action
for his impeachment. Having no
ground for such action they attempt
to put Coolidge in a corner. Coolidge
wisely refused to be stampeded or to
sanction lynch law, which is in reality
what the democratic senators and a
few; weak-kneed republicans demand
ed. Denby is entitled to a hearing.
He is not charged with malfeasance or
any criminal act, but with lack of
judgment and negligence. This, of
course, may be true. But to sum
marily dismiss him without a hearing
or investigation as to the facts in the
case would be wrong. Coolidge’s man
ly stand will be commended by all
thoughtful citizens. He assumes full
responsibility in the case, as he is
sworn to do, and will take such action
as justice to all may dictate. A cool
head is needed at the helm of state
at this time and in Calvin Coolidge
the nation has such a man.
NOTABLE AMERICANS
JN5BRUARY is the birth month of
several notable Americans. Four
loom large in the thought of our own
group, two only tn the thought of
white America. Washington and Lin
coln are rightfully given homage bp
all Americans. We as Americans of
color Join in this homage. But we do
not overlook the fact that there are
at least two more who are worthy of
a high place as great Americans. One
of these has been seriously considered
for a place in America’s Hall of Fame.
Frederick Douglas some day will be
given high honor by all Americans.
We to whose race he belonged should
fittingly observe his natal day. It is
linked closely with that of Lincoln,
who esteemed him as a personal
friend and adviser. Working in another
field is Richard Allen, the founder of
African Methodism. He influenced for
good thousands of our race and in do
ing so contributed to the upbuilding
of this republic. February is famous
as the birth month of notable Amer
icans. While we honor Washington
and Lincoln, let us not forget Dou
glas and Allen. This is the birth
month of these four eminent Amer
icans, two white and two black, so
closely linked together are these races
In our national weal and woe, who
have left their influence upon Amer
ica.
ATTITUDE MUST CHANGE
^MERICA’S mental attitude towards
colored citizens must be changed
before there will be very much im
provement. In race relationship In this
country. That mental attitude ie
founded upon the false assumption
that the colored race is fundamental
ly and inherently Inferior to the white
race. It is up to us as a people to
prove the falsity of this claim by
exerting every ounce of energy we
possess to rise to the highest plane of
achievement In everything that Is hon
orable. We have a big job, because
we have the heavy handicap of the
ignorance and backwardness of such a
large proportion of our people. Bui
big jobs develop strength. Let each
individual tackle his Job with vim anci
determination to do his beat and suc
cess is sure.
WAKE FILES FOB JUDGE
ATTORNEY NOAH W. WARE hai
"filed for Municipal Judge, subject t(
the primaries of April 8. The Monitoi
is glad Attorney Ware has filed. II
Is in keeping with our suggestioi
made some years ago and repeated
again and again that our people should
file fOr elective offices. We hppe thal
oor people will stand unitedly behind
Mr. Ware. Don’t hunt up excuses, bul
boost him!
Omaha is fourth city in home own
ership in the United States.
Omaha spent $18,000,000 for nev
lya. sad bnlldiiifs in 1***.
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NEGRO ARISTOCRACY
A CENTURY AGO
4,500 Negro Owners of Slaves in 1880
(From Journal of Negro History, pub
lished by the Association for the
Study of Negro Life and History,
Inc.)
Taking up the study of the Free!
Negro in the United States, the Re- J
search Department of the Association !
for the Study of Negro Life and His- j
tory, directed by Dr. C. G. Woodson; j
decided to make this statistical re- j
port as to the heads of families, their
ownership of slaves and social rela
tions with the whites. The aim was
to facilitate the further study of this
neglected group. Most of those people i
have befen forgotten, for persons sup
posedly well informed in history are
surprised to learn today that about a
half million, almost one-seventh of the
Negroes of this country, were free
prior to the emancipation in 1865.
They can hardly believe that 4,600 of
these were owners of slaves them
selves in 1830, and in many cases con
trolled large plantations.
The census records show that the
majority of the Negro owners of slaves
were such from the point of view of
philanthropy. In many instances the
husband purchased the wife or vice
versa. The slaves belonging to such
families were few compared with the
large numbers found among the whites
on the well developed plantations.
' Slaves of Negroes were in some cases
the children of a free father who
had purchased his wife. If he did
not thereafter emancipate the mother,
as so many such husbands failed to
do, his own children were born his
slaves and were thus reported by the
enumerators.
Some of these husbands were not
anxious to liberate their wives im
mediately. They considered it advis
able to put them on probation for a
few years, and if they did not find
thetn satisfactory they would sell their
wives as other slave holders disposed
of Negroes. For example, a Negro
shoemaker in Charleston, South Caro
lina, purchased his wife for $700; but,
on finding her hard to please, he sold
her a few months thereafter for $750,
gaining $50 by the transaction. Dr.
C. G. Woodson personally knew a man
in Cumberland county, Virginia, whose
mother was purchased by his father
who had first bought himself. Be
coming enamored of a male slave, she
gave him her husband’s manumission
papers that they might escape to
gether to free soil. Upon detecting
this plot, the officers of the law got
the impression that her husband had
turned over the papers to the slave j
and arrested the freedman for the sup
posed offense. He had such difficulty
in extricating himself from this com
plication that his attorney’s fees
amounted to $500. To pay them he
disposed of his faithless wife for that
amount.
Benevolent Negroes often purchased
slaves to make their lot easier by
granting them their freedom for a
nominal sum or by permitting them
to work it out on liberal terms. John
Barry Meachum, a Negro Baptist min
ister in St. Louis, thus came into pos
session of as many as twenty slaves
by 1836. The exploitation type of Net
gro slaveholder, moreover, sometimes
feeling the sting of conscience, liberat
ed his slaves. Thus did Samuel Gib
son, a Negro of Mississippi, in 1844,
when he brought his six slaves to
Cincinnati, Ohio, and settled them on
free territory.
Practically all of these Negro slave
holders were in the South. Slavery,
however, at that time had not been
exterminated altogether in the North,
and even there the Negro was fol
lowing in the footsteps of the white
man, as this report will show.
In the South where almost all of
the Negro slaveholders were found,
moreover, we find some of them com
peting with the large planters in the
number of slaves they owned. Most
of such Negro proprietors lived in
Louisiana, South Carolina, Maryland
and Virginia, as dil the majority of
all such slave owners.
Excepting those of Louisiana, one
may say that most of the Negro own
ers of slaves livel in urban communi
ties. In those parte of the South
where the influence of the kind plant
er near the coast was not felt the
Negro owner of slaves did not fre
quently appear. The free Negroes
themselves, moreover, encountered
such difficulties in the lower South
and Southwest that they had to seek
more hospitable communities in free
states.
LINCOLN NEWS AND COMMENT
The Utopian Art Club met at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. F. Christman
last Thursday night. After report of
last year’s work routine of business
was finished. The election of officers
for the ensuing year resulted as fol
lows: Mrs. Irene Mosley, president;
Mrs. Odessa Patrick, vice-president;
Mrs. L. B. Alexander, treasurer; Mrs.
Evelyn Johnson, secretary; Mrs. Flor
ence Forbes, assistant-secretary; Pro
fessor W. R. B. Alexander, chaplain;
Mrs. Jennie Johnson, luncheon; Mrs.
Ida Todd, program; Mrs. Marie Pat
rick, ice cream; Messrs. L. D. Forbes
and W. L. Johnson, door keepers. The
meeting mi the first of the year and
was well attended. The members ex
pressed themselves as being much en
couraged over the livelihood of the
club. A George Washington carnival
will be given in Mt. Zion Baptist
church next Fridap night, February
22nd.
J. T. Wright was confined at home
with illness the past week.
Mrs. Maude Gates is reported on
the mend at the hospital after a third
operation.
Mrs. Ollie Ray was called to St. Jo
seph, Mo., last Wednesday on account
Of her daughter’s illness.
Mr. Robert Granger received sad
news of the death of his brother’s
wife at their home in Kentucky last
Sunday.
At the Newman M. E. Church last
Sunday Rev. Mr. Carter delivered his
usual good sermons. The Sunday
school was fairly attended under Geo.
H. Evans, superintendent.
At the A. M. E. Church Sunday serv
ices were carried out as scheluled
being well attended. The 8unday
school and A. C. E. society were all
well attended. The pastor’s sermons
were enjoyed by his hearers. The
meetings during the week were fairly
attended bp the members.
The sermons as preached by Rev.
H. W. Botts at Mt. Zion Baptist church
last Sunday were of mufch Interest and
instructive to the Christian work“r.
The Sunday school and B. T. P. IT.
lessons were instructive. The con
gregation repaired the Third Christian
church, where Rev. H. W. Botts
preached an able sermon on baptism,
after which sev^n persons were im
mersed. In the evening the right
hand of fellowship was given the new
members, closing with the ordinance
of communion.—The Saturday Nights
Serving Club is having fine success
with the meals at the church.
THIRD ANMUAL BAZAAB OF
THE PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH
Twenty-fifth and Hamilton Streets—
Beginning February 2.'»th to
March 7th
Come out and bring your frlenda
and hear the best talent of both
races. Change of program each night.
It will be educational and inspiring to
you. Don’t miss it for you will ever
afterwards regret it.
Rev. Wm. Franklin, Pastor; Dr. Her
bert Wigging, H. J. Ford, Mrs. S.
M. Wilkinson, Program Committee.
—Adv.
SINGS AT FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
Miss Edna M. Stratton, the cultured
and efficient secretary of the North
Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A., whose
services are much in demand both as
a singer and a speaker, sang as a
solo, “O Lord, Rebuke Me Not" by
Will Brown at the First Presbyterian
church, of which the Rev. Edwin Hart
Jenks, D. D., is pastor, last Sunday
morning. Mrs. Zabraskie, organist,
accompanied her.
9. A. A. C. P. WILL MEET
SUNDAY AT JEWELL BUILDING
The regular bi-monthly meeting of
the Omaha Branch of the N. A. A. C.
P. will meet nest Sunday afternoon
at 4 o’clock in the room in the Jewell
building, Twentyfourth and Grant
streets, which has been donated bp
Mr. Jewell as headquarters for the
Anti-Lynching Fund Campaign. An i
interesting program will be given In- I
eluding addresses on Lincoln and |
Frederick Douglas. The public is
urged to attend.
Omaha has four daily newspapers
and seventy periodicals.
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Nebraska Civil Rights Bill
Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Right*.
Enacted in 1898.
Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons within this state shall
be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advan
tages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, publie conveyances,
j barber shops, theatres and other places of amusement; subject only to the
conditions and limitations established by law and applicable dike to every
person.
Sec. 2. Pendty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person who
shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for f
reasons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the |
' accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the
foregoing section, or by dding or inciting such denids, shdl for each
offense be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than |
twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the costs
of the prosecution.
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“The origind act was held valid as to citizens; barber shops can not
against persons on account of eolor. Messenger vs State,
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freshments in a certain part of his restaurant, for no other reason thin
that he is colored, is civilly liable, though he offers to serve him by setting
a table in amore private part of the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mieh.
168; N. W. 718"
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