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re-.V'lM£intt=hlt;«♦torWwlidieeso\v rs. ed:ngtatSirVngremony Conducted by Women Students’ League In How- Cl1Iard University wa‘ artce in-he rsgpu-d-•p-il-alMein^IDA bronze bust of the late John E. b0 Miiholland, well known in Essex county and owner of Meadowmounf at be Elizabethtown, was ^unveiled at How'- pa ar.d University, Washington, a few days, ago, by Miss Robbie Turner, president of the Women Students’ League.A special program included remarks by Dr. Mon krai W. Johnson, university president; I)eaii Lucy D. Slowe, and Dr. Ennnett J. Scott, who presided. A poem. “John Miiholland,” was,1 read by Jean Robert Foster of New Y ork.Dr. Scott paid tribute to the attitude of Mr. Miiholland, which was always vigorously active in favor of»oppressed peoples, mentioning specifi-1. cally his refund to accept government r contracts for use of his pneumatic 5} tubes for delivery of mail, provided he would deseit the cause of the negro in America. Hiunze busts of Miihol-land* he stand, have already been placed at Ch»*ym»y Institute, at Fisk I ITiiversity and at the headquarters of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People, which hefounded.£ I Expressing appreciation of Howard 11 University for the bust, Dr. Johnson e spoke of Mil hoi land’s far-sighted and unselfish labms, not only in interest - of negro development but also for de-•* I yelopment of the collective bargaih-p i ing principle in the economic work}, j the Saturday half holiday, prison re* e1 form and atndnst oppression of the | Irish people and the Boers. Dean Lucy j- Slowe spoke of the moral courage of f the late Inez Miiholland, daughter of John E. ^Jilholland, who, on the oc-1; cusion of the suffrage parade in Wash-’ i ington in Ihl I. refused to ride at its *(head until women of Howard Univer-• sity were a» ( titled a place in the). line.ieft*er
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The Adirondack Record - Elizabethtown Post
Au Sable Forks, New York, US
Thu, May 31, 1928
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