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know how - Southerners
feqj—They want to us all
when we hdd mixed meetings,' 1
■ hooted a New England delegate.
The Rev. Bertha P. Crear, col
ored, pastor of the Christian
Spiritualist church, Columbus,
Ohio, asked for delay.
“Wh6n we’re a little stronger
and a**little more learned we’ll
leave,” declared. There ’was
prolonged applause at this.
Woman 125 Dies
(By The Associated Negro Press)
Atlanta, Ga., 0<5t.25 —Aunt
Lucy breen, colored who’claimed
the distinction of having fir-d
the light of day on this mortal
soil 125 years ago, passed away
last Thursday at the home of her
son, ' Henry Green, himself 77
years of age, at 16& West Merritt
Avenue.
As well as she could remember
according to her son, “Aunt Lucy’
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early girlhood was fraught with
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the excitement that prec ded the
second British war, on her “mars
tor’s” ranch in Virgii.y! Long
before the civil War she enj yed
the quietude and serenity of these
happy years until the emancipa
tion proclamation of President
Lincoln freed her. She was At
lanta’s oldest citizen and had a
host of friends‘among the whites
here.
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East and West Meet at
Hampton
(By The Associated Negro Press)
Hampton, Va., Oct.— Folk mu
sic of the East and West met today
THE ATHENS REPUBLIQUE
on comparable’ terms when the
well trained unique Ukrainnian
National Chorus dressed in na
tive costume and the Hampton
I V
Institute chorus and choir com
posed of Negro voices sang in Og
den Hall at Hampton Institute
the famous folk songs of little
Russia and of plantation melodies'
of Negro hymns of the old South
before an audience ’of' over 2000
citizens of the lower peninsula' of
Virginia. Mlle. Nadia Plantinoda
the Ukrainian Lyric Soprano, who
is making her first road cre
ated gieat enthusiasm-iaifd won
prolonged applause for her finish
ed singing of romantic ’ballads
and folk songs. From the music
of Cliuka Ruiiskj Korsakoff ana
Tscbaikowsky the (Ukrainian
singers- .were encored < again* and
again. .Tuey were grve-tedi with
sympathy and fervor-.by -the.3so
Hampton.lnstitute students., and
and sang,to them from. Negro
folk songs including r<ide on, Jesus
and swing low sweet Chariot.-* ,
Alexander K< shetz, the conductor
of the«Ukrainiaii National Chorus,*
after hearing the - Hampion In
stitute Choir of 60 volets -sing,*
listened to The Lambs and LT .
nevea Turn Back Nq Monp t.wo
compositions written by 6. Na
thaniel Dett of Hampton Institute’
and interpreted unperhis conduc
torehip, said,“This Nt-grocompos-
work is colossal ui i’-s sigulfit
cance oi the cultural possibilities
of Negrot s. On my num to
Ukrainia I shall put Prohssor
Dett’s composition on my program
and have my students Jnr.eflpiv t
Negro folk music.” ,
When Black Meets White
By John Louis Hill
(For The Associated Negro Press)
Os late there has been much talk a
bout the “New Negro,” There is. and
van be no such thing as a “new Negro’’
but there can, and must be a new free
dom for the Negro. Tile time has been
reached when this fact must be recog
nized by all classes. ,(Fi/ty y ears of pro
gress by the together with the
world upheave! -in the United States
with the Civil War, a half century ago
gave the Negro physical freedom. The
recent world among manjij
other radicar changes. plought| will)
lead the Negro of America into mental,
aqd social freedom.
t This netv freedom is coming to the
colored race c , not through legislation
not by any sort'of material force or ar
rogant assertion, not byway of threat
er denterrid, but Along the unobstructed
pathway of divine truth., I
TJie Great Teacher “Ye shall*
know the truth, and the truth shall,
make you free.”
ThaT wasa new and ‘startling thing
for Christ to say when He did say it, and
it is always new and startling when wc
grasppts significance and undertake to (
apply it. Yet, it is a fact that no real
f cl that no real freedom ever came to
airy individual or an\ people anywhere
oth.fr than this way. by shooting
deadly bullets intox men’s bodies, but’
by driving divine ideas into their headsi
and hearts d es liberty come io races
and uat ons.
’Afl that is 1 necessarv to bring about
complete harmony and permanent ac-
CQr</.' ami cooperation between the)
white and black rices ip America is
for both races to understand an 1 appro
priate the TRI TH about themselves
and etch other. • Ignorance, falsehoods
and prejudices on both fellies piust bej
elim naled entirely before complete
harmony can j revail.
rire whitl r|ce mus?'wmie stand that
theNegrois fully entitled to economic
freedom. The Constitution of the Unit
ed Sx lr-, by virtue of his citizenships
vouchsafes this to hjm. If in the past,
racist prejudice has denied him this
right, despite the obstacles in his way*
by virtue of his demonstrated ability to
make distinguished economic pidgress*
he has dou,bly earned his right to com"
plete econypnc freedom. As a citizen
of this Nation the Negro has equal rights
with every other citizen to every mater
ial po’-st ssion iu any locality whatso-'
ever, which by the use of brain and
money he may be able to obtain.
Oct' bor 28, 1922