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Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
March 15, 1932
Number 6
"Cedar, Catalpa, Mulberry, and Elm
Resented Intrusion in Their Lovely Realm.
(From The Mystery of the Spray, page 6)
Dr. \V. E. B. DuBois to
Lecture
I)r. W. E. B. DuBois, Editor of The Crisis,
is <ri\in*r a series of ten lectures on The
Negro and Industry, under the auspices of
Atlanta University. The subjects and dates
of the lectures are as follows:
1. Imperialism in the Sudan, 1400-1700,
Tuesday, March 8th.
2. Tin* Expansion of Europe, 1700-1825,
Wednesday, March 0th.
3. The Industrial Foundations of Amer
ica, 1700-1S00, Thursday, March 10th.
4. Southern Imperialism, 1880-1860,
Thursday, March 17th.
5. Immigration, 1840-1870, Friday, March
18th.
6. The Black Feasant, 1860-1880, Mon
day, March 21st.
7. The New Serfdom, 1880-1000, Tues
day, March 22nd.
8. American Imperialism, 1875-1020,
Wednesday, March 23rd.
0. The Newest South, 1018-1032, Thurs
day, March 24th.
10. The Economic Future of Black
America, Friday, March 25th.
These lectures will trace the transforma
tion of African Negroes to modern Ameri
can working men, with emphasis on the
organization of work and industry, and the
changes in wages and income that have
marked the last five centuries.
This is a subject of vital importance to
Negroes, and Doctor DuBois is eminently
qualified to discuss it. All the lectures are
open to the public. They are being given at
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Atlanta University, Spelman College, and
Morehouse College.
The thesis of these lectures is that the
industrial revolution in Europe in the
Nineteenth Century was built on the Afri
can slave trade, which began industry in
America and laid the foundations of the
Cotton Kingdom. Slavery planned an em
pire of the Southern United States, Mexico,
Central America, the West Indies, and
South America. This dream was spoiled
by slave revolt, foreign labor, immigration
and free western land, which resulted in
war and a free, black peasantry in the
South. The North and South uniting, re
duced this peasantry to serfdom and united
with Europe in reducing the whole colored
world to the economic domination of white
nations. Internal jealousy led to war and
began the emancipation of the colored
world. This war also gave renewed and
tremendous impetus to industry in
South and led Negro workers into
North: in both sections, Negroes are
fighting an economic battle for bread
butter. How will this battle end?
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Spelman Student Is Honored
Mount Holyoke Awards Racial Minority
Scholarship for Second Time
to Ida Louise Miller
Word has been received from Mount
Holyoke College in a letter from the chair
man of the Racial Minority Scholarship
Committee to President Florence Read of
Spelman College that the committee had
unanimously decided to award their scholar
ship to Ida Louise Miller for a second year.
This scholarship was established at the
famous New England college for women
for the purpose of giving to a Negro girl of
outstanding scholarship and unusual per
sonality the advantages of that institution.
It was awarded for the first time last year
to Ida Louise Miller, then a sophomore at
Spelman College. The scholarship is for
$1000 covering one year’s expenses for board
and tuition.
Miss Miller is now completing her Junior
year at Mount Holyoke College. The second
award, the letter stated was based on Miss
Miller’s fine record in scholarship and on
the general contribution she made as a
member of the college community.
The recipient of the scholarship attended
Booker T. Washington and Spelman High
Schools, and was graduated from the latter
in 1929 with highest honors. During her
first year in Spelman College she ranked
highest in her class, and during her second
year was tied for first place. In high school,
she served on the student council, wrote
often for The Campus Mirror, and played
the title role in Josephine Preston
Peabody's play, “The Piper”. Her activi
ties in dramatics continued in college. In
the spring of 1930 she played the role of
Hedvig in the Spelman-Morehouse produc
tion of Ibsen s “The Wild Duck”, and in
tin* Spelman historical pageant, given at the
50th anniversary of Spelman College, she
played Miss l pton. She was president of
the Freshman class and secretary of the
Sophomore class at Spelman College.
Miss Miller is the daughter of Mrs. Rosa
lie P. Miller, of 956 Ashby Circle N.W.,
Atlanta, (la.
ON OTHER PAGES
Vessels
Special Articles—
Downfall of the Marking System
No Grave
Freely Ye Have Received
The Market in Monrovia
Student Activities—
Musical in Morehouse North
The University Players
The Fortnightly Club
Our Speakers
From the Classrooms
Poetic Fancies
Among the I aughers
Y. W. C. A. Notes
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