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LEADS WORK OF WOMEN'S CLUBSEmpire State Federation Reelects Mrs. M. G. Lawton.ECHOES OF REGENT SESSIONReports Read at Annual Maating Held In Poughkeepsie Show Increase In Membership and an Unflagging Interest In Constructive Effort For Racial Advancement.By N. BARNETT DODSON.New York.—The notable growth of the Empire State Federation of Women’s Clubs during the past five years Is a high compliment to the Industry anil executive ability of the women of our race. Through the untiring efforts of Mrs. M. C. I-AWton of Brooklyn ns state organizer the federation has advanced from a weak and halting position to that of matured experience with a force of workers In the various clubs which covers every phase of racial interest. When .Mrs. Ijiwton wus elected as organizer there were possibly not over six clubs in the federation; now there are fifty.At the 11)15 meeting of the federation Mrs. Ijiwton was elected to the presidency and was continued in tl»at office for another year at the meetingHKH. M. C. LAWTON.held at Poughkeepsie in July. Mrs. Lawton is a woman of culture and wide experience. Site is Intensely Interested in race work, and as an agitator for fair play and equal Justice her voice has been heard on many occasions. For fourteen years she has been a contributor to tbe Brooklyn Dally Standard Fnion, portraying tbe aspirations, struggles and achievements of the race in every department of its activity.The eighth annual meeting of the federation was held recently at Poughkeepsie. The roll call of cluls* represented showed that seventy-five delegates were present. They •■tune from r-lubs at Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Ithaca, New Rochelle, Syracuse, Tarrytown, Yonkers. Jamaica, N. Y., .Manhattan rind Brooklyn. Six new ciulm were ridded to the membership. After the presentation of credentials, receiving rf badges nnd seating of delegates, the address of welcome on behalf of the dubs of Poughkeepsie was delivered by Mrs. M. .1. Coition, which was responded to by Mrs. Charlotte Bell. Governors Island.‘•Rescue Work was set forth In a strong talk by Miss Grace P. C ampbell, superintendent of the Empire Friendly Shelter. 11*5 West One Hundred androe working gin. w. c. a., home life, delinquent girl and the girl farthest down. The establishment of an arts and crafts department and u junior industrial depart men t were added to the federation by a unanimous vote.Prizes will be awarded to the one bringing in the finest piece of art work and tbe one presenting the best essay.The position of historian was creatednnd the honor of same conferred on Mrs. Alice Wiley-Seay, founder of the Empire State Federation of Women’s Clubs. Through tbe splendid management of Mrs. Lottie Henderson, chairman of the committee on printing, that expense was met.“The Temperunce Symposium,’’ conducted by Mrs. Sylvia Harris, superintendent of that department, was well done. The consensus of opinion from nil who attended Is that the convention was the finest In the history of the federation. The next meeting will be held ut New Rochelle, N. Y. The following are tlie officers for tbe ensuing year: President, Mrs. M. C. Ijbw-ton, re-elected; vice president, Mrs. Charlotte Bell, re-elected; financial secretary, Mrs. Addie Jackson, reelected; corresponding secretary. Miss Elizabeth A. Mickens, re-elected; recording secretary. Mrs. Tillie Harden; treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Freeman.The Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs voted as its object the Empire Friendly Shelter, located at 110 West One Hundred and Thirty-third street, Manhattan. By unanimous consent the sum of $115 was contributed toward tbe Booker T. Washington monumental fund and $10 to Mrs. M. J. Stuart, who was a charter member of the federation, was first chairman of the civil department, was later its organizer and then secretary-Mrs. Stuart's health is impaired to the extent that she is on the verge of a physical collapse. The delegates elected by the state federation to the national are Mrs. A. W. Hunter. Mrs M. B. Gregory, Miss Elizabeth .Mickens and Mrs. M. C. Lawton. Mrs. Lawton is also t*-«• president of the Empire Friendly Shelter in New York.SUPPORT RACE CONGRESS.Coming Meeting of Equal Righta League to Be Important EventThe call of the National Equal Righta league for a congress of colored American citizens, to be held at an early date In the fall, is a move in the right j direction. True, there have been distressing periods of racial existence, iq-risings in national and state affairs which have threatened our citizenship, nnd in many states tlie rights lt;f the colored citizens in almost every line of activity have isjen denied or curtailed, but there never wus a time more im portnnt in which the race should act as a unit than the present.Segregation, lynching* nnd other forms of injustice against the colored ]ieople are unchecked. No attempt, so it seems, is made by tbe national administration either to ascertain the leaders of mobs or to bring such niur derers, if known, to trial. The race must take Its cuuse into its own hands — not ns firebrands, disturbers of the I»oare or as bomb throwers, but as fiearcnhlo citizens demand In the name of the strong arm of the federal law tiie protection which it guarantees to citizens of the United States.The proposed race congress should l*e a grand success. It will be open to all persons of thought nnd action who lielieve in fair play. It is not hedged In by any political fences. The suggestion lias lH?en made by prominent business and professional men and women and concurred In by the league that citizens' equal rights committees be formed In every community nnd that these committees elect and send delegates to the race congress.All churches, secret, benevolent nnd civic organizations are also earnestly requested to send representatives to the proposed meeting, time and place of which will be published in the dally ami weekly papers. The Waco (Tex.) lynching Is still fresh in the public
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Denver Star
Denver, Colorado, US
Sat, Aug 12, 1916
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