 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1924 - 634 pages
...'A house divided against itself cannot stand'; this government cannot exist half-slave and half-free any better to-day than it could in 1861. "Hence we...of the struggle for civil and political liberty." An extraordinarily diversified and important line of names of men and women of both races followed... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1959 - 726 pages
...of citizens" to defend the rights of Negroes. In response to the call for "a national conference for discussion of present evils, the voicing of protests,...of the struggle for civil and political liberty," nearly 300 white and Negro men and women from all sections of the country met in New York City, May... | |
 | United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1963 - 260 pages
...people, should not perish from the earth." Silence under these conditions means tacit approval. . . . Hence, we call upon all the believers in democracy...renewal of the struggle for civil and political liberty. Among the 60 signers of this call were Jane Addams, John Dewey, John L. Elliott, William Lloyd Garrison,... | |
 | Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - 1993 - 380 pages
...the bloody riots in Atlanta, finally led a group of New York liberals to call a conference in 1909 "for the discussion of present evils, the voicing...the renewal of the struggle for civil and political liberty."11 The call was written by Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of the great abolitionist, and... | |
 | Joseph Nazel - 1995 - 210 pages
...nature in which all citizens, without regard to race, are equally interested . . . ." We call upon all believers in democracy to join in a National Conference...renewal of the struggle for civil and political liberty. The call was issued on February 12, 1909, the one hundredth anniversary of President Lincoln's birth.... | |
 | Charles Hamm - 1995 - 408 pages
...both countries, was spearheaded by the black elite. A conference held in New York City on 30 May 1909 "for the discussion of present evils, the voicing...renewal of the struggle for civil and political liberty" was attended largely by black educators, professional people, and religious leaders. A second conference,... | |
 | Mary White Ovington - 1996 - 188 pages
...with an emotional appeal. It recited the chief wrongs under which the Negro suffered and called for a conference "for the discussion of present evils, the...of the struggle for civil and political liberty." It was most important, for the sake of publicity, to have this Call signed by people of national reputation.... | |
 | Linda O. McMurry - 2000 - 417 pages
...those questions needed answers. She prodded Walling and several other prominent white progressives to "call upon all the believers in democracy to join...of the struggle for civil and political liberty." Written by another abolitionist's descendant, Oswald Garrison Villard, "The Call" was issued on the... | |
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Hence we call upon all the believers in democracy to join in a national conference for the discussion of present evils, the voicing of protests, and the renewal of the struggle for civil and political liberty. 
