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With. Anthony Acry Hampton, Value, S.— ‘The eighth biennial convention of the National Association of Colored Women, held at Unpton Institute duly 28 to 27, at the wall of Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, New Bedford, Mass. the national president, for four years, brought together for mutual help and inspiration some three himedred, self-sacritieine, dis tinguished colored women who have been actively engaged through out the whole country in ebb work for the moral mental and material Progress of the Nowra race. It is estimated that there are about eight hundred local clubs managed by colored women. A few statistics from two hundred clubs, making reports to the No A, CLOW, will show the vast strength of the clubrovement gaini one the colored women. Total membership, 1090s, Money collected in two seats, S24. Cost of property owned by chibs. SOLSHI15. Present valuation of property, STIR BILLS The Association was organized iy Washinton, D.C. im TS96. Et) Was affiliated with the National Council of Women of the United States in 1900 and was incorporat ed in Tod National conventions have been held in Nashville, Buf- falo, Detroit, Louisville, Chicago, St. Lows and Brooklyn. Officers The following national officers were viceteds Mrs. Margaret Mir ras Washington, Tuskegee. Ala. president: Mas. Jone E. Gibbs, Min neapolis. Minn. view president at farces Mrs. Mary Talbert, Buffalo, NOY. chairman of executive board Miss Ida Re Cummings, Baltimore, Ald. corresponding secretary, Mars. Marnie Bo Steward, Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Janie Porter Barrett, Pamp ton, Va. Miss Roberta Dunbar, Providence, Ro TL. first, second and thind recording secretaries, respec tively: Mrs. Tdi Joyceslackson. Colmobus, O., treasurer: Mes. ani mal Linsay Davis, Chicaso, TL, ma- Honal organizer; Miss Trallie Q. Brown, Wilberforce University Wilberforce, O. parliamentarian; Mrs. Mary V. Parish, Louisville, Kyshatistman. Mrs. Booker T. Washington smedtierd the names of the follow ing heads of national departments : Mes. Sylvania Williams, New Or. lewis, La. mothers” ¢lirles s Mrs. C. To Dorval. Ocala, Pla. children: Miss Nannie Hh. Birrovwrhs, Wash- Teton, PD. CL. young women’s work Dr. Mary Mitzbutler Waring, Chi cane. TH. health and hygiene: Mrs. Bishop Thundy. Battimore, Mal. hue mane: Mas. Wilkerson. Orange- Dire. S. Cl. domestic seiences Mrs. Joseph Brown, Des Motes, Lowa, social selene: Mrs. Maceie L. Walc ker, Richmond. Va. business: Miss Mary S.lickson, Providence, R. suffrage: Miss Aliee Woylie Le Brooklyn, N.Y. associated ehare Hess Mrs. Josephine Bo Bruce, Washington, D.C. eigie dil fores trys Mes. Hildlackson, Lexington, Ivy. reset works: Mes. hell Nap er. Nestle. ‘Penn, educational: Aes. dieckson, Oklahoma City. Ola. kindergarten: Mrs. WoT. Bo Wilhanos. Taanpien, Vinguste: Mis.deVa Thant Bowen. Tiskegen, Vadial ronditions: Mrs. C. W. Posy. Thomestead, Pao arts: Mrs. Bishop Clinton. Salisbury, M. oC., Hiterativres: Mas. Wiliam Alphin. Warry, “Yes. religions works Mas Nehies Laois. Morteomers. tae. aerieaiaties Mas. ML Co Bo Mason, Cineaath, Ohio, temperance: Mas. sartie Go Tranition, Pittsburg, Pac PaNerile waits, What the N24, CW. Is Doing Nhe members of the National vs soelition oof Colored Woron are vitally interested in everything t hat pertaina ty race development, ce belinue The Stily of bethea meth Hels ob eee For children, Che iin Prevent of homes and heme dite, He tele of children te their pubpenuts aaneled parents tached ehildren. Hie dita of senner wotten Hoa plases of Horenarkinn, the Herpitite CP pentes tren aime awe. Hien food prietitea. happier life Hi Ui raditetion al prietippes. Taabes, IMiste. Stiies. ail daeawes parpers ibe era Homies. Wie prob ten offered the older people how to remmumnize | Vii strong, ane dmaterial pro.) itera ad oise all of their assets to hether advair Vhee National Assecution of Col ored Wontar is helping: along many Hitees a Hoe inking of subsstand ial wh happy chores, 1 is carrying Hite qaneties the idea of gelating Knowledge and experience to the Improvement of Life in the home, the school, the church, and the community. Nothing that is of Interest or value to the Negro rave is outside of the program of activ y that is being worked out by the splendid colored women who bring to their task of race and national uplift becnoinds and warm, Chris tian hearts. These questions were ably dis cussed at the eighth biennial con vention, recently held at Hampton , Tustinate. Activities of the N. AL GOV. Special work alone the follow new lines is carried on by the N. A.C. Ws Support of reformatories, old folks’ homes, nurseries, working girls’ homes, and social setments | study of civics, needlecraft, art, literature, and domestic science ; and the development of social up lift work. The national motto, “Lifting as We Climb,” has been worked out with rare thoroughness by thousands of colored women. Frankness, honesty, and serious ness characterized the may discus sions dealing with the work of col ored women engaged in the white plague crusade, child welfare work, the more efficient organization of F coommnity work, the problem of dealing with delinquent boys and girls, the promotion of the Young Women’s Christian Association work, the proper care of infants, the problems of the adolescent per iod, the twentieth century woman, the ‘segregation and housing of Negroes in cities and towns, woman suffrage, and the relation of white and colored people throughout the country. Noo attempt was made to elogs over the questions of lynching and kindred evils, Jim Crow cars, the traffic in girls and women, and the head of concerted action on the part of colored people to secure Fairer treatment. Isolutions The report of the committee on resolutions, read by Mrs. Warren Lovan, ‘Tuskegee, Ala. protested against the Jim Crow cars with them uncomfortable and inferior accomodations as well as the fric tion which they create, declared against rave segregation which compels good colored people to live in surroundings that are subject to the vile influences of commercial and vice to which they are in no way a party, urged the co-opera tion of white and colored people for the suppression of the social evil and the punishment of those engaged in the traffic of girls and womens idorsed the work of the National League on Urban Con ditions among Negroes, which aims to do constructive and preventive social work for improving the social and economic conditions among Negroes in urban centers; deplored lyaching and called upon ministers and other public men to enlist against mob violence; declined in favor of full woman suffrage and advocated the formation of politic al study elibs to stir up men to creator interest in matters concern ing their own welfare; recommend ed the introduction of agriculture in the public schools, school gar dens, worn and canning elibs. social woul literary elibs in rural com munities, approved officially the chivalry shown by the men in the “Titanic’ disaster Work for Others Mrs. Brooks Lewis reported to the convention the case of Virginia Christian, of Trampton, Va. who was recently condemned to die in Richmond on August 2. A peti tion signed by three hundred col ored women was sent to William Hlodecs Mann, governor of Vir ginia asking him to continiute the sentencs of Virginia Christian. The following plea was made: The extreme south of this girl the lack of training diving her childhood, and the neglect for which she was] not responsible are extenuating. etre emunstances which we feel jnstifu us in imploring This Execellency to show aomercifal elemencs to the unfortunate girl Considering all he circmstances of the cas, we feel that the electrocution of this poor eirh world be repigant to the Christian awwonismhood and man hood not only of the United States but of the whole civilized world. A committee was appointed to go to Richmond to see Governor Miami who granted Virginia Christian a stay until Aurst 16, Mrs. Belly -rickson, of Bexington ly. who reported the logs of her orphan Home and the death by fire of three children, will receive From the SoA] Co Wo one hundred dol lars for her work after the cnerent bills have been paid. A convention offering was taken for the work of the Laytona Edocational and In dustrial School for Negro City, Which is conducted by Mrs. Maivy Metwod Bethune. Entertainment of Guests The entertainment committees of the Virginia Federation of Colored , Women's Clibs, under the direc tion of Mrs. W. T. B. Williams, Hampton Institute, arranged with other things for a series of tableaux and a pageant. Chapters in the development of the Negro women in America were illustrated in a series of choruses and tableaux. The pageant includ ed the following scenes dealing with prominent women in history ; Nausicaa’s hospitality to Ulysses; Cleopatra's visit to Anthony ; oun of Ave in the streets of Orleans; Queen Isabelle of Spain receiving Columbus; Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh; Sacajawea, an Indian woman guiding Lewis and Clark on their exploring expedition to the far West; the work of Miss Clara Barton (A sham battle, Red Cross nurses attending the wound ed), Suffragette Parade, and Col lege Women’s Procession. Staimpton Institute chartered a s steamer to take the delegates to Newport News where Dr. Booker T. Washington spoke to the color ed men and boys of the great ship building plant on the necessity of doing their work satisfactorily so as to remove the present cause for dissatisfaction. At the close of the convention a reception was given at the home of Dr and Mrs. Frissell. Music was furnished by the Hampton Insti tute summer band. Mrs. Robert R. Moton, chairman of the Trampton reception committee, Mrs. Tarris Barrett, president of the Virginia Federation, Miss Elizabeth C. Car ter, honorary president of the N. ASC. W., Mrs. Bookens T. Wash ington, president elect. Mrs. W. T. B. Williams, Mrs. Allen Washing ton, and a number of colored wo men belonging to the Virginia clubs received. Women's Work An interesting exhibit of wo men's work was arranged in the Domestic Science Building by Mrs. C.W. Posey. Homestead, Pa. From distant states colored women sent to Thampton Institute specimens of their work in needlecraft, hand painted china, canning and pre serving, home gardening, and use ‘ful household arts. The specimens of work put on exhibition showed ‘clearly that the colored women who are busily engaged in advancing the club movement are alive to the importance of making home life better and more attractive. There was a rare combination of the ar tistic and the useful, of the cultur al and the practical. Daily there were demonstrations in dressmak ing and cooking. Thrift, economy, and culture were shown in this practical aspect of the convention as well as in all the discussions. In the absence of Dr. Trellis B. Mrissell, principal of Hampton In stitute, Major R. R. Moton, the school commandant, delivered a short address of welcome. Tle em phasized the importance of the tre mendous power that the colored women assembled at the eighth biennial convention of the National Association of Colored Women, were exerting over the Negro men of the nation, Ile declared that the presence of so many earned, faithful, Godlike women at Harmp ton made him more hopeful than never before. Mrs. Harris Barrett of Trampton, Va. who has done such excellent work for more than twenty years in conducting a social settlement in Emmpton and who was instrumental in bringing the NASC. W. to Hampton Institute, spoke briefly of the organization of the Virginia Federation of Col ored Women’s Chibs, of which she is the president. Mrs. W. T. B. Williams spoke on behalf of the local clubs, and Mrs. Laura 7. Titus, Norfolk, Va. spoke on be half of the Virginia Federation, Negroes in the Cities Dr. George Edmund Haynes, di rector of the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes, and professor of social science in Fisk University, spoke on ‘City Problems Confronting Negroes. ” He considered the movement of Negroes toities, the problem of segregation and the treatment of Negroes in cities. Tle showed clear that the segregation of Negro pop ulation in cities has had the fol lowing results: Less effective police protections poorly paved streets uncollected garbage; poorer street near weriees The better elements of white and colored people have been removed from neighborhood con toed, near public schoolss absence of fire protections lack oofibrary freshness general presence of many evils. Since the development of an individual, it is no wonder that Negroes in the cities have suffered. Addresses Miss Elizabeth CG. Carter, in her biennial address, outlined the na tional character of the work of col ored women in organizing women's will be in the warfare against in temperance and inmorality. She emphasized the importance of im proving home life, especially in contact with the girls. She declar ed that an appeal should be made to the postal authorities to sup press post cards showing scenes of lynching. She said that the N. A. SW. offered its protest against Yuching and unjust discrimina tons. She urged that all legisla ion tending to lessen the right and privileges of colored people should be vigorously opposed. She spoke in favor of introducing domestic science work in the school and of urging girls to join eorn and ear ning clubs. her address centered about three important —ideals— thrift, economy and culture. Mrs. Warren Trogan made an ex cellent plea for an enlarged intel ligence on the subject of woman suffrage through systematic study of civie problems. With an outline map of the United States, she was lable to show that in those states where women have had complete or partial suffrage, where they have been able to back up their petitions with votes, matters affecting public welfare have been more intelligent ly handled than they have in plac es where women simply had the right of petition. A stirring address was made by, Mars, Mary McLeod Bethune who s told with rare eloquence the story ‘of her struggle on the cotton and rice farm in South Carolina through Scotia Seminary and the Moody Bible Training School in Chicago to the founding of an in dustrial training school at Laytona in Movida, for the training along practical lines of the Negro girls. A collection was taken at the meet ing for Mrs. Bethune’s school. The subject of juvenile courts was ably handled by Mrs. Joanna Snowden, Chicago, HL, Mrs. Sadie D. Hamilton, Pittsburg, Pa, Mrs. J S. Jackson, Philadelphia, and Miss Eartha White, Jacksonville, Bla. Plans were worked out for a closer organization of this Work With Miss Eartha White as secre tary. Woman in Business Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, Rich mond, Va., spoke on the subject of the “Twentieth Century Woman in Business.** She gave some of the important facts concerning her own public life during the past fourteen years and showed what the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank and the St. Luke beneficial organ ization has been able to do for the colored people. — Pemnies, dimes, and dollars have been put together by the colored peple,and have pro duced good results. The St. Luke Bank, which began nine years ago with a capital stock of fifty thous and dollars, has already handled three million dollars, Mrs. Walk er urged the colored women to start their own business enterprises and ,by putting their money, ener gy, and briain into active service , they can secure excellent results. Mrs. Booker T. Washington was chosen delegate to represent the N. A. C. W. at the Emancipation Ju bilee which will be held in Wash ington, September 26, 1912. The next biennial convention will be held at Wilberforce Univer sity, Wilberforce, Ohio
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