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ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLDADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL COLORED CONGRESS FOR WORLD DEMOCRACY UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE AT WASHINGTON, D. C. DEC. 18, 1918.Colored America.. through delegates assembled from 37 of the United States of America, sore and bleeding with persecution because of race and color, hails with hope peace with victory, for the motto on the banners of the armies of the victors was “Away with tyranny and its injustice everywhere.” Speaking for 12,000,000 Colored Americans, the National Colored Representative Assembly for World Democracy under the auspices of the National Equal Rights League congratulate their fellow Countrymen and their government on being the instrument by which the God of righteousness turned the tide of battle for the forces of liberty.War Put On World Basis As To The Results.Two hemispheres and the islands of two oceans furnished without regard to race or color the armies of this bloody and terrible war. Shameful it would be if its close did not mark a new humane era. To the President of our Republic, Commander-in-Chief of our army and navy it was given to name the principles on which the winners fought this war. and its purpose. By his declaration, accepted by France, Britain and the rest openly before the human race, the principles and the aim of this war were put upon a world basis. Secondly these principles and aims wrere for the wiping out of autocracy, inhumanity and injustice, and for the establishment of world justice, world humanity and world democracy.Wrong* To Individual On World Basis For Redress.With the ushering in of the new year, 1919, the nations of the world are assembled to settle the terms of peace for the world, for the establishment everywhere of the principles for which this world war was waged by the forces of democracy.Therefore every denial or violation of justice, humanity and democracy has become a matter FOR CORRECTION AND ABROGATION ON A WORLD BASIS BY A WpRLD COURT.Hence Colored America, which furnished 400,000 brave soldiers for this war backed by over 12,000,000 loyal citizens without a traitor, appeals to the allied World for justice and Democracy in the peace settlement.Utterly Undemocratic Treatment Of Colored People of U. S. A.* *aw ***© United States of America, the famous Republicor the West, we first appeal to the civilized world for the discontinuance of all race or class discrimination in the world peace settlement. At this supreme moment m the cause of universal humanity, when wrongs to man should be banished, we must call world attention to the utterly undemocratic conditions under which every person of color is forced to live in this country. Because of race autocracy, our color in the Nation’s Capital de-°1Vil ^lg?t except in Public carriers and subjects us to rejection or to the restriction of the Ghetto as employees of the federaln?•’ » ? our color in many partB of the country deprives usfoli “al, social and judicial right; subjects us to obloquy, imposition deprivations, injustices, cruelties, atrocities, worse in degree thank-m Chri8tendom. Segregation in public carriers, dis-wMnll Chln«/re essentially violations of that world democracyfor which the war was fought.Self-determination For Darker Nations.wftrTmal w ^€mefdous material and appalling human losses of this worldto arant ^ r } *°r g°°d’ we appeal to the P^e conclavedarker nations n riSht8 without discrimination to all of theThe Appeal Sent By Race Petitioners For Universal Abolition Of ColorProacrlptlon.aentaUvPRrofath«W^.SfHallHSenCl'^aCe petitioners to th« assembly of the reprevictors fn world world meeting to make good the promise of theaeainat CoWd nelson’ pe«HoB for the abolition of autocracy of race thedLn.SnnP» n?as everywhere and to appeal to this world Court forcivic noHMra? and , ,5f°^^Lpti011 and aU distinctions based on color,PBAC^AOREBM®NT thltZ NAT1KON AS AN ARTICLE OP THE the liberation ? T°rld “ay be remade truly on the basis ,of,“r,h’ “a ,hBElse There It No New Day.racy^'no^of°alnew 7* DOt ^ the dawnlnS of a new day of democ-Suc war ev^ known L p,frmfnellt P^e after the most terrible and between Z fZ 5? ? embracing two hemispheres In a death grappleoet^een the forces of autocracy and of democracy.THE COMMITTEE) ON ADDRESS.William M. Trotter, Mass Chairman. Bishop G. C. Clements, Ky.V£•James. N J. Atty j D E1Ms w VaRev^r i C?le“an- A . Rev- c- v- Page, Mo.n w A VJohnson, Ark. Rev. Thomas W. Davis, Tenn.Rev WG°,°der.’,KVKa- ... Prof- L B Ca8h- Te*as-V' ?‘bbons- Ml8B- W. C. Brown, D. C.A“y rL TTA R- Caldwell, Ind. Dr. r. H. Singleton, Ga.Sr ^ *’„DeL ReT- R A Whitaker, Okla.Mra-Ida Wells Barnett. 111. Hon. Isaac B. Allen, N. Y.Dr. P. A. Walker. La. r. B. James, Mich.wr' Davls' Kan- G. W. Boyer. Ohio. —R®v- W- D- Cart^' Wa8b- State. Bishop J. S. Caldwell, Penn SecR W r Rev- X C- McDaniels. N Y.''J' W Ross ReT- H. H. Jackson. N. C.J. W. Ross, Minn. Rev. John v Goodgame, Ala.
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Sat, Feb 15, 1919
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