HISTORICAL EVENTS
OF THE NEGRO RACE
(by H. W. Smith)
Chr;— '3 Attucks shed his blood
in the Boston Massacre.
B. K. Bruce, U. S. Senator from
Mississippi and later registrar of
the U. S. Treasury. When Senator
Bruce wr ’:ed up to be confirmed
the Senate refused but after Sen.
Horace Greely of Mass., made a
speech Sen. Bruce was sworn in
without an opposing vote.
Negroes served as sailors on
British ar.d American ships dur
ing the Revolutionary War with
great honor.
Fred Douglas prevailed upon
John Brown not to make the in
insurrection at Harper’s Ferry Va.
and Mr. Douglas made a visit to
give a lecture against slavery to
John Brown while fishing. He al
so started the first Negro Sunday
School for children under a tree
in Maryland.
U. S. Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge sponsored a civil rights bill
which was supported by Congress
man John M. Langston of Va
President Benjamin Harrison was
in favor of the bill and recommen
ded an amendment to furnish sol
diers at all voting precincts in the
south.
U. S. President Grant issued or
ders t*" all soldiers to shoot all Ku
Klux Klansmen wherever they
were seen in uniform.
Three U. S. Presidents were as
sassinated. Abraham Lincoln was
shot in Fords Theatre in Wash
ington, D. C.: James Garfield
was shot in the B & O railroad
station in Washington and Wm.
McKinley was shot at the Pan
American Exposition in Buffalo by
a man named Zolgosh. A Negro,
George Parker was the first man
to knock him down and hold him
for the officers and was hurried
out of the building before the in- j
tense excitement raised.
When Wm. Pickens was a stu
dent in Harvard university he
wrote an essay on Haiti and won
the Gen. Eick prize. U. S. Presi
dent Grover Cleveland paid him
$100 for a copy of it.
Mr. Carter G. Woodson, one of
the historians of Harvard univer
sity, lectured in Omaha at Central
High School in Omaha and made
mention of incidents of the Re
volutioryiry and Mexican wars;
and what part Negroes played as
officers in each.
Dr. Leroy Bundy led a group of
27 Negro men with repeating ri
fles in East St. Louis and routed
a mob of 2000 men. He was ar
rested and convicted in federal
court and sentenced to a prison
term in Chester, HI. Attorney Wm.
Houston appealed the case to the
«*U. S. Supreme Court and the
decision of the lower court and he
was released on a writ of super
cedes. His case was reviewed and
he was acquitted.
R. R. Church of Memphis Tenn.
was the leader of the Republican
party in the State of Tennessee
for many years. His Father was
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Z. E. Bush and C. W. Keats of
Little Rock, Ark., organized the
Masonic Templars in Arkansas 5o
years ago and they rendered good
service to members until it failed
during the long depression.
U. S. President Keorge Wash
ington gave all his slaves money
when he freed them.
James Gordon Bennett, the N.
Y. newspaperman, borrowed ten
thousand dollars from a Negro
who had an oyster lunch counter
in New York.
Booker T. Washington met T.
Thomas Fortune in New York
when he returned from the Phili
^4>te Islands and told him to
purchase a house with the money
he had earned.
Monroe Trotter worked his way
on a ship to attend the peace Con
ference of World War I.
Bishop Arnett of the AME
Church lost one of his legs in the
Civil War.
Mother Zion Church of New
York claims to be the first Ne
gro church in the U. S.
John Stewart, a Negro was the
first missionary among the Ind
ians. He was from Ohio.
Rev. I. B. Scott was editor of
the Southwestern Christian Ad
vocate at the time he was elec
ted Bishop of the AME Church.
The State of Louisiana had a
Negro governor at one time, Wm.
Pinchback.
The State of Arkansas had 3
Negro judges: J. P. Jones, coun
ty judge of Desha County; M. W.
Gibbs, circuit judge in Little Rock
and J. A. Carr, municipal judge
at Hot Springs.
PAST EVENTS
75 years ago—The great fire
in Chicago. The Centennial in
Philadelphia.
60 years ago—Earthquake in
Charleston, S. C.; U. S. Congress
passed the Civil Rights Bill. Sen
ate rejected it; Fire destroyed
the business portion of Hot
Springs, Ark.
50 years ago—Fire dsetroyed 1
of the fine theatres in Chicago !
killing many persons.
Galveston, Texas, destroyed by
tidal wave drowning thousands.
Vigilance Commitee killed 11
men members of the Nafi Soci
ety that assinated Chief of Police
Hennesey in New Orleans, La.
Mob in North Carolina killed
many Negroes in political riot.
Negro soldiers went up San
Juan hill and won the land fight
in the Spanish American War.
Admiral Dewey with the Atlantic
fleet went into Manila Bay be.
tween mid-nite and dawn and de
stroyed the Spanish fleet.
Carver Day Set in
New York City
New York City (CNS)The New
York City Council turned aside
from an agenda heavy with con
troversial city matters last week
and paid a unanimous tribute to
the late George Washington Car
ver, eminent and unassuming
scientist whose birthday falls on
January 6th. Following short
eulogies by several members of
the body, the Council voted to set
aside January 6th as George
Washington Carver Day to be ob
served with fitting ceremonies in
honor of the man who pursued
a life of unselfish service.
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| After Assembly Vote-What?
There has been much rejoicing
over the stand of the General
Assembly of the United Nations,
against racial discrimination prac
ticed against East Indian nation
als and their descendants in South
Africa.
It was a victory for the small
nations and especially for that
great woman Madame Pandit, the
head of the Indian delegation.
On paper this all looks very
fine and makes the United Nat
ions seem to be an improvement
over the old League of Nations,
but we hasten to point out that i
condemning jim crowism is one
thing and ending jim crow is
something else again
We applaud the United Nations
Assemply's statement of high
principle, but we are wondering
how and when it is to be imple.
mented.
Even if the United Nations pos
sessed any machinery for stopping
jim crowing of Indians in South
Africa, would the Security Coun
cil establish a precedent by inter
vention ?
It is not very likely that it
would, onsidering the vulnerabi
lity of so many countries, includ
ing the United States, the United
Kingdom; Australia; New Zeal
and; Portugal; Belgium; the Ne
=
I therlanda; the Soviet Union; Yu
j goslavia; Poland; China and oth. i
| ers, all of whom practice similar
1 discriminations against some of
their nationals.
! There is a great deal of hypo
crisy in international affairs and
the history of such relationships
is littered with fine statements
of principle while everybody ac
cepted but nobody carried out..
So while we may be thankful'
that South Africa’s white dicta- *
torship has been exposed by the
white light of world publicity, let 1
us not imagine that this UN state
ment of principle means more
than just that.
Bilbo Investigation
Recalls Ponzi Empire
WASHINGTON, (CNS)—Testi
mony brought out during the in.
vestigation of Senator Bilbo’s war
time conduct reveals that in a
smaller and more confused way,
the senator has built himself a
financial empire that brings back
memories of Ponzi, the financial
wizard of another era who finally
crashed-landed in jail.
A Mississippi banker testified
before the committee, told of a
mysterious special bank account
carried by Edward Terry who was
secretary to the senator, and who
was sought far and wide by thi
committee only to turn up in a
hospital back home. Terry will be 1
placed on the stand to reveal why
he held the account, and to whom
it belonged. The former secretary
will also be asked about his per
sonal account which is believed
some of Bilbo’s cash.
So confused have the commit
tee found Bilbo’s financial deal
ings, it is almost impossible to
determine whether money that
flowed into his accounts were
personal gifts, political gifts or
loans. Top confusion in the Bilbo
dealings is the matter of the Jun.
iper Grove Baptist Church, com
plete with a five bathroom par
sonage. The church has 'been on
Bilbo’s plantation in Poplarville
Mississippi, for years and the new
building is completed. The parson j
age, however, lacks plumbing and i
water facilities. I
It has been brought out that
every war contractor who had
even a slight acquaintance with
the Senator made a substantial
contribution to the church, yet
the parsonage is far from comple
ted. A few days before the pre
sent hearings opened, Bilbo turn,
ed the deed to the church and
property over to the deacons for
a $1,000 consideration, but be
cause the senator also had a deed
in escrow which turns the title
ever only in the event of his
death, the deed is invalid.
Adding to the confusion and my
stery was testimony that showed
a $15,000 fund ear-marked to de
feat Bilbo was, at least for a
while, in the custody of Terry the
senator’s private secretary.
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| LIFE
at A Glance
BY DAVID BETHE
Sometime ago, seventeen years
to be exact, a doctor in France
began experimenting on rats and
guinea pigs, growing hair. Yes,
sir, the old scientist was quite
successful, growing blankets of
hair on the rodents and guinea
pigs. .Naturally, feeling his in.
vention was matured enough to
try it on some heads that have
been bereft of their moss, he ad
vertised for a victim. Strangely
enough only one man appeared,
and when he was asked about the
hazard he might be taking, he re
plied casually.. “Well, I haven't
anything to lose”.
Did you know that some of the
most prominent male faces you
see in the movies wear false hair
to shade their faces? One scient
ist recently stirred Hollywood by
saying bald headed men are more
manly, have more vigor, and are
usually hairy chested. . If you are
bald it would seem that you are
classed in that group of real he
men. .
After all, youth means a tem.
permental predominence of cour
age over timidity of the appetite
for adventure over love of ease..
Youth is not time of life. It is a
state of mind, and a youthful
state of mind often exists in men
of fifty of more, says a well in
the know psychaitrist.. Come to
think about the thing, nobody
grows old by merely living a
certain number of years. People
grow old onll by deserting their
ideals. Years wrinkle the skin,
but self distrust, fear and despair
ah. .But they are the things that
■make you think everytime you
have a little pain, you are getting
too old to live. .Good Prof. Reck
on you are right. You are old
when you think you are old.
Interesting Observations
On The National Horizon
The CIO has just hit critically
at the effectiveness of the FEPC
in the State of New York. That’s
right, the Congress of Industrial
Organizations thinks the whole
law might become a dead letter
if Governor Dewey does not see
to it that it adheres to its pur
pose, which is to set up an end
to discrimination in employment..
The good Governor might lend an
ear to this warning, if he expects
to cash in on the Negro vote in
1948..Don’t forget, Negro voters
are just liye any other voters;
they are out to elert any man,
who loves the Constitution and is
willing to see to it that its am
endments are recognized..
Here is a good one.. One man
was murdered in East Harlem
district of Ned York on the morn,
ing of election day. .a little more
than a month ago. And already
it has provoked a drastic shake
up in the world’s finest police
department. Several high-ranking
officials have already been demo
ted and the end of the shake-up
is not in sight. Why there is even
talk in several quarters thru-out
the nation calling in the district
attorney before an invesigating
committee in Washington for neg
lect of duty..Yes. sir, that is
what happens in New York when
a guy is cut down cold blooded..
But down in Georgia. .Four Ne
groes were murdered cold blooded*
ly, more than five ronths ago.. and
not even a high.way cop has been
decoted. .Wake up America.. You
may not regard these fifteen mil
lion Negroes as real citizens, but
the rest of the world knows Amer
ica as a country of 130 million
people. As a Christian Nation, let
us search our hearts, remember
ing that on the twenty-fifth of
December Christ was born to
save not just the whites..but the
black also.
To all my readers—May health,
joy, and good luck greet you on
this coming New Year.
I Great Negro Pitcher
Dies in Chicago
Chicago, CNS)—Water Ball,
who stood out at the beginning
of the centuryy as one of the
great pitchers in baseball died
here early last week. Ball pitched
for the Leland Giants, famed se
gregation, that preceeded the A
merican Giants in the American
Negro Baseball League. Notable
among the many great perform
ances turned in by Ball was his
pitching duel with “Three.Finger
ed” Brown. Ball was on the knole
for the Giants in a classic game
against the Chicago Cubs in 1909.
It was a tight session, and both
j outfits were on their toes. Ball
pitched his heart out in one of
the sharpest exhibitions of his
career, but he lost the duel, 4 to
2, to Brown.
Boxing Writers Honor
Jacobs An<l Tony Zale
New York (C). .Promoter Mike
Jacobs who is gaining slowly in
his fight for recovery from a
cerebral hemorrhage, was voted
the annual boxing writers award
for the greatest contribution to
boxing over a period of years last
week. Uncle Mike was the unan
imous choice of the scribes as was
Tony Zale, who was awarded the
Edward J. Neil Memorial Trophy
for his contribution to the sport
last year.
Joe Louis and Henry Arm
strong have received the Neil a
ward in previous years and the
late Jimmy Walker received the
Boxing Writers honors for his
contributions to boxing. The wri
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Minor Mystery About
Sugar Ray’s Weight
New York City (CNS)—You
probably know already that Sugar
Ray Robinson lambasted Tommy
Bell of Youngstown, Ohio, all over
the ring at Madison Square Gar
den the Friday night before Christ
mas and that he is now the undis
puted King of the welterweights.
Just in case you don’t know it,
Bell might have won, and that is
really an upset for which most
of us were unprepared. The point
of this item, however, is an epi
sode that occured at the State
Athletic Commission offices a few
days before the battle.
Both Robinson and Bell were
in the Commission offices for a
physical examination and" follow,
ing the check up, Bell’s manager
suggested that the boys be weigh
ed in officially at the same time.
George Gainford, Robinson's man
ager, objected strongly to the
suggestion saying “Robinson will
weigh officially Friday as requ
ired”. While, there is no ruling
that makes it necessary for a
fighter to weigh in days before
the fight, Gainford’s objection did
create a slight air of mystery.
“Our answer to all who find
fault with America and the A
merican way of life must be: when
you can show me a country that
can equal our record we will lis
ten to you. But until you do, you
are wasting our time!”—Paul H.
Griffith, National Commander of
American Legion,
PRIEST AND RABBI ONLY
TWO WHITE BILBO CRITICS
JACKSON, Miss.- (ANP) —Only
two white men in this state op.
enly opposed last week Bilbo’s
argument in favor of a white
democratic primary before’ the
senate’s subcommittee that in
vestigated the klan politician’s
appeal to white voters last sum
mer to keep Negroes away from
the polls.
They were a Roman Catholic
priest and a Jewish rabbi. Both
disagreed that Negroes should be
excluded from voting in the dem
ocratic primary, which is tanta
mount to election. Not a single
white Protestant clergyman chal.
lenged the klansman’s position
that the primaries should be all
white.
Right-wing political leaders here
believe Bilbo scored a victory dur
ing the senate investigation, but
the real effect will be revealed
during next Angust’s primaries
for state and local offices.
“Profits are the wages of capi
tal, the return on money invested
in the tools and plants furnished
the workers.’’—Leslie Gould.
THEY’LL NEVER DIE
DAVID A.FER&USON
WAS BORN IN PORTS
MOUTH.OHIO I&7S- HIS
CAREER BE&AN AT M
WHEN HE WORKED IN
THE OFFICE OFA DENTIST
IN NEARBY KENTUCKY*
AT 21 HE COMPLETED
HIGH SCHOOL.ENTERED
HOWARD UNIV. WITH
7 YEARS PRACTICAL
EXPERIENCE, AND LED
HIS CLASS WITH EASE/
DR. FERGUSON LEFT
FOR RICHMOND
WHERE, IN 1900, HE
BECAME THE FIRST
NEGRO DENTIST TO
BE CERTIFIED BY
THE "OLD DOMINION
State."
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Off. DAVID A.
FERGUSON
FIRST CERTIFIED NEGRO
DENTIST IN VIRGINIA!'
I PLANNED ECONOMY B?™
ond now if your husband will sign this affidavit that he is in good
' health and a resident of the U. S., I’ll take a look at him,"
