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eel a row weegs ago*I new paterueu uevice nere.\ £lll£3.(ACTIVITIEStiIBV DKLILAH L. BEASLEY.fromNews has been received New York telling of the activities of one of the branches of tho National association for the Advancement of Colored People, It States: Under tho leadership of its president, Dr, Meyer Jacobstcin, fo/mcr congressman and bank president, the Rochester, N« Y., branch of the N. A. A. C. P. has entered upon a program of obtaining fndustria! opportunity for colored people/' The Rochester Jcmocrat and Chronicle writing of the branch's most recent meeting says: Jlt;To open the doors of opportunity In indus-try to every colored person in Rochester la the task of tho Rochester branch, of the National association for the Advancement of Colored People, It was declared by Dr. Meyer Jacobstein, president of tho branch. In opening the annual membership drive at a meeting in Mount Olivet JJaptlst church.“Especially the colored boys and girls who ?;omo day will be the loaders rf their raco must be given tho chance to participate in the city’s Industry. £r. Jacobs to in aaid a survey of tho situation is being planned and it is hoped that It will be completed in time to bear fruit [next fall. Industry mu6t bo impressed with the fact that the colored people want to occupy and are capable of filling positions of responsibility, he went on, and unless tho colored people themselves have sufficient self-respect to demand their opportunities they never will get them/'A feature of this meeting was the presentation by tho principal of Washington Junior high school of Harry Bray, colored boy recently elected president of the high •school class.COLLKGK HONORS NKGllO Many Negro students uUcnding white colleges in the Hast havr won high honors, Harriett Pickens, daughter of Den 11 William Pickens, field secretary of tho National association for the Advancement of Colored People, 5s the fint of her race to received the coveted award of the ”S pin, one of six awards fit Smith college, Northampton, Mass., one of the foremost women’s eollegos In the country. A special despatch to the New York World states that the pin la the highest honor that can be bestowed by the collogo for excellence in athletics and that the presentation before the student body at chapel services on Thursday, March 13, won cheers and applause from thi* students/' FELLOWSHIPS AWAUmCI)A news item from Atlanta, Ga„ states: Two fellowships providing tuition and living expenses have boon awarded the Atlanta School ot Social Work by tho National Tuberculosis association and will be available for college graduates qualifying between now and September 1, according to an announcement by Forrester B- Washington, director of tho school.These fellowships arc an expression of appreciation on tho part of the Tuberculosis association for the •successful Institutes in tuberculosis prevention conducted by the school (luring the past two years. They make a total of eight fellowships now available in the school, others being provided by tho Methodist Episcopal diocese of Georgia and tho South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's clubs/'LOCALSThe national Negro health week observance under the auspices of the committee of the colored group of the Public Welfare league held their mass meeting Sunday in Taylor Memorial church, it was well attended. Mrs- Alien deserves much praise for her efforts to have Oak-J*«nd observe this week, A well balanced program of music and addresses is being prepared. Dr, it. (5, liondurant, represented tho colored physicians and dentists of the clt*\ made the opening address on the vnttic of such public meetings, Mra. FI, Artedia, of the Public Welfare league followed with an ad dr cks on problems of a social worker and paid a high compliment to Mrs. Ruffin, whom she said had worked for years to get tho citizen to recognize the value of national Negro health week.Di\ Walter M. Dickie, director of public health, delivered an addre.to on tuberculosis prevention, lie war? followed by Mrs. A. A. Jib’d, wife of J)r, A. A. Bird, of Baby hospl-tab She spoke on social hygiene. Her talk was very inlormativo. Tho colored doctors and dentists held a meeting Thursday evening in Heth Eden 3baptist church as a part of the observance of national Nog 10 health week,rOHKKJN RELATIONS HAVTht* Universal Nlt;*gr«i Improvement, Oakland division No. 18S, held' Foreign Rein t Ions day last Sunday m their own hall in West Oakland. The speaker was Joseph Cyprlano. second vice president, who spoke on Tho Negro and Monopoly/* Ho told hfs hearers that tho “Negro must organize, morally. Indust Ha 11 v. financially, politically, intellectually and spirit-* natly against monopoly/1 The Ethiopian national anthem was then sung.The third reciprocity meeting of tho northern district California Stnto Federation of Colored Wom-oi\*n clubs, met In an all-da*' session Wednesday in Hot hoi A. M,1church, San Francisco. It Is thelast meeting before the annua! state convention in Oakland Juna 24 in Fifteenth A. M. E, church. Mrs. Lawrence Sledge, president o£ tho district, presided.The Booker T. Mothers, and Sari Francisco Women's clubs were the hostess clubs. There were over 40 delegates, beside over sixty gucsta for lunch, and a number of citizens of both races in attendance, some coming from San Jose, Stockton and Sacramento which sent tho presidents of threo of their largest clubs. The most outstanding* business of the session was a resolution adopted by the body representing thousands of California, nlub women, asking President Hoover to have the war department withdraw the segregation of Negro war mothers (Gold Star mothers) whom the government will send to \isit the graves of their sons In France, it has been proposed that the Negro wav mothers make the trip In an Inferior.separate ship. These colored Callfornfa, club women the plea thattheir loss was as great as the white Cold Star mothers and should not be humiliated before tho world.Rev. JIughes, in whose church the meeting was held, read several letters and dippings concerning recent adverse legislation toward tho N^gro which President Hoover will be asked to investigate.The ways and means committee stated they were planning to glv* a concert in May to raise money to. x defray cxp-muk** of the convontlonf » YOU It DUTY Your duty as a resident of Oakland is to contribute to the Community Che.st liberally. There aro hundreds of persons, munlt;v with lamilies of children* now without a job. They must appeal tor aid to yome one of the social agencies of the Oakland Community Che.st. Will you help thu vhest to meet this uigent and most humane appeal? Do your pari, ,HELP CALIFORNIA GROW U was Congressman Oscar F)a Priest, Negro congressman from Illinois, who when addressing: the citizens of Oakland last fall called their .attention to the great number of votes necessary in California to elect a conyressnrin, whereas jj] the Southern states w such number was required, )!■* definitely proved the Injustice tc* California s and other states by tlK Inequality.ft ; Rut added the remedy would be found after the completion o£ the 1930 census. Hence it you wish California to grow and give her additional United States congressmen, then answer truthfully and readily all questions asked tVOU when the ccn.sits enumerators call.
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Oakland Tribune
Oakland, California, US
Sun, Apr 06, 1930
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