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Ohfo Supreme Court Swats Segregation
SUPREME COURT OF
OHIO RULES AGAINST
SEPARATE SCHOOLS
Persistent Dayton Parent Winn Great
Victory for Race Against Hoard
of Kducation Which Puts
t'p Stiff Fight
lilt.II TRIHI NAL IS I NANIMOCS
Chief Justice Marshall Writes Opinion
Founded I'pon Decision Made
in Similar Case Some
Years Ago
Columbus, Ohio—(Special)—A long
and bitter fight against the segrega
tion of colore I children terminated
triumphantly in the schools of the
state of Ohio, when a decision of the
state supreme court barred the seg
regation of colored American children
in separate schools.
A Real Victory
Perhaps no victory that has beet
won in a state supreme court recently
has such far reaching significance to
colored Americans as the one returned .
here. The ruling was made by unani-!
mous vote with Chief Justice Caring
tori T. Marshall writing the opinion.!
The case follows the reasoning of
the leading decision on the subpect
in the forty-fifth volume of Ohio
State Reports.
Suit Filed in 192.r>
The decision rendered by the high
‘ tribunal of the State of Ohio, was giv
en in a case, which was started by
Karl Reese of Dayton about a year
The colored citizens brought suit
against the Dayton Hoard of Kduca
tion charging that in the Garfield
District Negroes “were required to
occupy a separate part of the school
premise with separate entrances and
e> it - to the school building.”
Reese demanded that his children
receive the same conditions of school
attendance given to white children
predicating his action upon the theo
retical political adn social equality
provided by Ohio laws.
Carried to High Court
The suit was won by Reese in the
lower court, and susequently the
board of education filed an appeal in
the Montgomery County Court of Ap
peals. The decision of the lower court
was upheld, however. This was only
a few’ weeks ago. The suit was in
manadmus in the court of appeals.
A demurrer filed by the Dayton Hoard
of Kducation and the superintendent
of schools was overruled and judg
ment given to Reese. The board then
carried the case to (he supreme court
and the decision of the appeals court
was affirmed.
CHICAGO LEADS LARGE CITIES
IN NUMBER OF NEGRO LAWYERS
The N. A. A. C. P. today forward
ed statistics, published in the West
Publishing Company's “Docket”,
showing that there are 63!) colored
lawyers in American cities having a
population of 100,000 or more and
that among these cities Chicago leads
with 95 colored lawyers. New York
is second with 50 colored attorneys,
Detroit third with 32, Baltimore is
fourth with 27 and Indiunapolis fifth
with 26.
Other cities in the list include: Bos
ton, 16; Columbus, Ohio, 14; Mem
phis and Philadelphia each 13; Rich
mond, Va., and St. Ix>uis, Mo., 12;
Kansas City, Kan., 11; and Los Ang
eles and Louisville each 10. Omjjha,
Nebraska, has 7.
NEGRO PRIEST ORDAINED
Washington.—Rev. Norman A.
Dudkette, formerly of this city, was
recently ordained a secular priest by
Right Rev. Michal J. Gallagher, D.
D., Bishop of Detroit, at the Cathedral
of Saints Peter and Paul, in that city.
Father Duckette, who is the second
colored man to he ordained in the
Secular Order in the United States,
celebrated his first solemn high mass
the first Sunday in Lent at St. Aug
ustine's church in this city.
BRONX COUNTY GRAND JURY
INDICTS GIRL’S ATTACKERS
New York—The National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People today received word by tele
phone from its attorney, Alan Dingle,
that the Bronx County Grand Jury
had indicted in second degree rape
the white attackers of a fourteen
year-old colored girl, who had been
held for three days in a barn and who
subsequently died in a hospital. The
girl had come from Virginia to New
York, to go to school and was stay
ing with her aunt and uncle
The N. A. A. C. P. brought the
girl’s mother from Virginia, paying
her expenses, in order that she might
identify the girl’s body and testify
as to her age. The prosecutor has
announced he will press for a very
early trial.
To aid in prosecuting the white
rapists, the Colored Women’s Pro
tective league of the Bronx, eompos
■ ! r a’nly of colored women who earn
their own living, has contributed $40
Mrs. L. A. Houston, president of
the Bronx Colored Women’s Protect
ive League, Mrs. Louisa A. Jeter and
Mrs. P. B. Walker, were constituted
a delegation to call at the National
Office of the N. A. A. C. P., present
the contribution and express the ap
preciation of the Protective league
lor the activity of the N. A. A. C. P.
in the case.
NEW PRESIDENT OF FISK
UNIVERSITY ELECTED
New York.—(By the Associated
Negro Press) That long drawn and
fierce controversy which centered
around Fayette McKenzie, former pre
sident of Fisk University, has cul
minated in the election to the presi
dency of the institution of Thomas
Elsa Jones, according to an announce
ment made Thursday by Paul D.
Cravath, chairman of the board of
trustees of the school. Mr. Jones has
accepted the offer and will assume
his duties June 1.
The resignation of the former pre
sklent, McKenzie, resulted from an
onslaught by students and members
of the alumni who, during a period ol
more than a year pushed an attack
on him which had as its main weap
ons charges of incompetence and prej
udice. It was declared that McKenzu
sought to ingratiate himself with
southern whites to the detriment of
the students of the school and of
the Negro race. Principal among the
leaders against him was Dr. W. E
Du Bois, the school’s most distinguish
ed alumnus.
OHIO SUPREME COURT BARS
SEGREGATION IN SCHOOLS
New York.—The National Accoeia
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People, has received word of a de
cision by the upreme Court of Ohio
ordering the Dayton Board of Educa
tion and the local superintendent to
admit Negro children to the same
classes and buildings used by white
children at the Garfield school, Day
ton. This decision affirms the de
cision of the Montgomery County
Court of Appeals which had ruled
against segregation as a result of a
contest begun by a colored citizen,
Earl Reese.
The Ohio Supreme Court’s decision
is based on a similar ruling made by
the court 38 years ago in similar
corses originating in Hamilton and
Butler counties.
STOP SEGREGATION
BY INJUNCTION
New Orleans.—A temporary injunc
tion has been issued against the City
of New Orleans restraining it from
enforcing the segregation ordinance
in respect to property occupied by
Negroes at 2328 and 2330 Palmer
Avenue. The Land and Development
Association which filed the petition
says that the property in question
has been occupied by colored residents
for the past twenty years and that
the city through its officials threaten
their tenants with arrest and pros
ecution if they do not move. The
section in question is in the heart ot
an aristocratic white neighborhood.
EDITORIAL
We ran across a thought-compelling editorial from The Chris
tian Recorder, which is so in line with much that we have been say
ing that we 'desire to commend its careful perusal to our1 readers
and ask them what they think about it. The editorial impresses
us as driving home facts that we need to seriously consider and
lay to heart. More than that, it is a racial self-revelation that
should move us to amendment. The caption of the editorial is
“The Negro’s Handicap.” Here’s what it says in part:
“We read a great deal about the handicaps of the Negro. But
it is time that we should sit down and go over carefully and dis
passionately the things which hold our peoplei hack as far as they
are held hack. It is not a popular thing for one to say anything
which lessens the emphasis upon race prejudice. Race prejudice
i one of the greatest drawbacks to all social progress and enters
as a distinct handicap to our race’s progress.
“If we are to set down the things which deter the Negro most,
we would say:
“1. Ignorance. Ignorance is the great obstacle against all
civilizing processes. What the Negro needs is more intelligence,
more education. Scores of things we could do if we only knew
how to do them. Many things we lay to the door of race preju
dice are the result of pure ignorance more than anyhing else.
Race prejudice hits us so hard because we are ignorant.
“2. The Slavish Spirit. Next to ignorance is the spirit of
slavery. Many Negroes do not believe in their people. They ac
tually believe Negroes are inferior and they give their own people
every disadvantage instead of every advantage. This is, of course,
a result of ignorance to a large extent. And yet it is not the
same as ignorance, for we sometimes find the slavish spirit
strongest in the so-called educated. Often we find those who
should be the leaders, the slowest to co-operate and the most ac
tive in tying the Negroes to the l>ondage of the white man.
“”. Internal Jealousies. In so many places the Negro is held
hack by the jealousies of leaders. This is the result of l>oth ig
norance and the slave spirit. We see the two leading preach
ers dividing the people into two different factions; the two doc
tors, teachers, etc., doing the same. Baptists won't co-operate
with the Methodists and the ‘yellows’ snub the ‘blacks’ and
‘browns.’ If a so-called leader is not the head of a movement,
or was not ‘consulted’ he tries to break it up. More time is
given in some communities by Negro leaders talking and work
ing agnaist worthy projects than in doing something constructive.
“4. Lack of Organization. You hear the orator tell of the
number of shoes it takes to shoe our race’s feet, the number of
hats we have, the amount we spend for food, etc., and he wonders
‘why we don’t have more factories.’ We lack organization in
business, in finance, in politics, etc., chiefly l>ecause of internal
jealousies, which shrewd w'hite people encourage and thus keep
us apart.”
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IKENTUCY REPUBLICAN
WARMLY SUPPORTS RACE
EDUCATION MEASURE
Washington.—WTien Bill H. R. 393,
“An act to incorporate Howard Uni
versity in the District of Columbia,’’
recently came up for consideration
! in the House of Representatives, it
was vigorously supported by Cong
ressman Maurice H. Thatcher, Repub
lican of Kentucky, who is deeply in
terested in Negro education, as his
remarks show.
“I fully approve,” said Mr. Thatch
er in debate, “the reason urged by
the Committee on Education for the
passage of this pending measure, lt.
passage will give to Congress explicit
and complete authority to make these
appropriations. The 250 years, or
more, of unrequited toil of the Negro
race in this country; the loyalty of
that race, and its sacrifices in every
way for the American flag and for
white Americans; its utter impover
ishment and handicap at the close of
the Civil War, and its loyal Ameri
canism and capacity for progress so
amply demonstrated since that war—
all constitute, in my judgment, all
powerful and convincing reasons why
this great Republic of ours, which
must depend on universal education
and universal suffrage as the two
great pillars of its support, should
make a just and reasonable contribu
tion toward the education of the col
ored race.”
THE CALL OP LIBERIA
Washington.—The Liberian Conces
sion of the Firestone Rubber Com
pany of Akron, Ohio, is attracting
many of our most efficient young
men. Among those who have accept
ed supervisory positions in connection
with the development of rubber grow
ing in West Africa is Mr. Charles
E. Lane, who for several years man
aged successfully the large and beau
tiful Lincoln theatre in this city. Mr.
Lane sailed last Sunday from New
York to visit factories in Belgium
where he is expected to spend two
months. From there he is expected
to visit South African rubber planta
tions on a tour of inspection before
taking up his duties in Liberia.
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URGES NEGROES TO TEST
WHITE CHRISTIANITY
New York.—(By the Associated Ne
gro Press) A Negro audience in Har
lem on Lincoln’s birthday was urged
by William Montgomery Brown, de
posed bishop of the Episcopal Church
to go as a body to the largest and
most wealthy white church in New
York and take God to the church. His
audience at first thought he was kid
ding, but the ex-bishop assured them
he was not and declared he would go
along.
“Go en masse to the best and most
beautiful church in all the world,” he
urged. “Go to the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine. When you enter
the house of prayer, pray for the
establishment there of the kingdom of
God. You’ll find Bishop Manning
there, and you may find God. Don’t
be backward in associating with the
millionaires there. Go down next
Sunday and bring them the message
of freedom, equality and fraternity.”
Since Mr. Brown was put out of
his church he has shown a very friend
ly spirit toward Negroes. Many years 1
when he was bishop of Arkansas he'
wrote books against them and denied
them a pliJje in the white man’s
heaven. His prejudice has been lost
in his heresy.
FRANK J. LIVERPOOL BURIED
Masonic Hall was filled to over
flowing last Saturday afternoon for
the funeral of the late Frank J. Liver
pool, who had been a resident of
Omaha, for nearly forty years and
a member of Rough Ashler Lodge,
under whose auspices the funeral was
held, for a like period. The music
was in charge of Mrs. J. Alice Stew
art, and consisted of the singing of
“Rock of Ages" and other hymns by
a selected choir; a duet and a solo
by Mr. Levi Broomfield. Preceding
the Masonic rites, the Rev. John Al
bert Williams, rector of the Church of
St. Philip the Deacon, read the Burial
O-.ce of the Episcopal Church in-J
eluding the committal. C. C. Dudley,®
W. M. of Rough Ashler Lodge, assist
ed by J. T. Saunders, S. W., and Dr.
.1. VV. Scott, J. W., then took charge
of the Masonic ceremonies. Resolu
tions were read from Rough Ashler
Lodge, the Joshua Kelly Consistory
and Zaha Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
Interment was at Forest Lawn. The j
floral tributes were many and beau
tiful. The set floral pieces were left
on the grave and the other flowers
were distributed among the hospitals.
SAYS NEW NEGRO
IS BOLSHEVIST
Chicago.—(By the Associated Ne-I
gro Press) In a lecture over WMAQ,
the Daily News Radio Station in this!
city, Prof. Robert E. Park of the Uni- 1
versity of Chicago, speaking of “The,
Race Consciousness of the Negro”,
declared that the “new Negro” was
not only a radical, but in many cases |
he was becoming bolshevistic. He i
warned his radio audience that the
Negro in America is becoming inti
mate with and close to the other
colored races of the world.
BETTERED CONDITIONS IN HAITI
Washington.—According to a re
port made by Dr. W. W. Cumberland,
Financial Adviser and General Re
ceiver of Haiti, the trade in that Re
public has experienced a gratifying
improvement during the last three
years.
Similar increases in importations
of textiles, says Dr. Cumberland, show
that the population is more adequate
ly clothed; while the large iricreases
in imported foodstuffs show that the
people are better fed and that the
purchasing power of the population
is expanding.
It appears that from every point of
view the finances and commerce of
Haiti may be regarded in a prosper
ous condition. Public funds have been
devoted to constructive purposes
waste has been reduced to a mini
mum; the public debt has been com
pletely funded; all arrears of interest
and authorization have been liquidat
ed, and, there is a gratifying excess
of exports over imports.
SENATE COMMITTEE
HEARS ARGUMENT
ANTI-LYNCH LAW
National Advancement Association
Secretary Gives Many Cogent
Reasons for Passage
of Bill
FEDERAL PENAJ, MEASURE
Necessary to Safeguard Honor of
United States and to Be Invoked
Only Where State Fails
to Function
Washington, D. C.—At a meeting of
a sub-committee, appointed by the
Committee on the Judiciary of the
U. S. Senate, to hold a hearing on the
McKinley-Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, in
the National Capitol on Tuesday, Feb.
16, James Weldon Johnson, secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of the Colored People,
presented arguments for the enact
ment of the measure into law.
Mr. Johnson presented “Thirty
Years of Lynching," with supplements
to date, the first and only author
itative compilation on the subject in
this country, published by the N. A.
A .C. P. Mr. Johnson cited a number
of atrocities which took place in 1925,
including the lynching of an insane
Negro in Georgia; the burning alive
of two men; and the lynching of
Lindsey Coleman in Mississippi im
mediately after a jury had acquitted
him of the charge of murder.
“The McKinley-Dyer Anti-Lynching
Bill is not a force bill,” said Mr. John
son, “not nearly as much so as the
prohibition enactments. It is rather
a federal penal measure which would
operate only where States are unable
or unwilling to act.
“The nation surely cannot deem
itself powerless to protect its citizens
within its own borders. Lynchings
are not limited to the Negroes. In
fact, of the total of 3,559 persons
lynched since 1889 no less than 722
were white.”
Mr. Johnson pointed out that rape
had never been first among the crimes
alleged as provoking lynchings, and
that less than one-fifth of the lynch
ing victims had even been accused of
rape, in addition to the fact that 90
women had been lynched.
Declaring that the honor and safe
ty of the United States were at stake
Mr. Johnson said: “The United States
is the only civilized, or uncivilized,
spot on earth where a human being
may be burned alive with immunity
1 think it sound to say that lynching
is not simple murder. It is murder
plus revolution and anarchy. It is
murder plus flouting and overthrow
and trampling underfoot of the pre
rogatives of the courts.”
Mr. Johnson asserted that Section
I of the 14th Amendment assuring
“equal protection of the laws” to all
citizens, was the basis for the pro
posed law: “It appears that this
amendment was adopted for the spe
cific purpose of meeting just such a
contingency as this measure proposes
to remedy, the securing to Negroes
of the equal protection of the laws.
And no one would contend for a
moment that the victims of lynch law
receive equal protection of the laws."
TWO WIDOWS GRANTED
CARNEGIE HERO MEDALS
Pittsburgh, Pa.—(Preston News
Service)—At a meeting of the Carn
egie Hero Fund Commission here last
week among the 29 acts of sacrifice
recognized by the commission two
race men were considered.
Felix Hood, 110 Beach street, Fair
mont. W. Va., attempted to save a
mother and daughter from drowning
at Fairmont, July 13, 1924. Hood's
widow received $60 a month, with $2(
additional for four children, and a
bronze medal.
Edgar C. Broyles, Okalona, Misa.
died attempting to save a man from
drowning at Kosciusko, Miss., July 17
1924. His widow received benefits of
$70 monthly, and $10 additional for
two children and a bronze medal.