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THE CRISIS
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BRANCHES
[*Starred branches are mentioned also in the reports of the Chairman and Treasurer.]
     Many of these branches have been chartered too recently to make it possible for them to submit anything but a brief routine report which has not been printed. The organization and supervision of branches is at present very unsatisfactory since it has to be done largely through correspondence. The Association should have at least two agents in the field constantly. Almost all the branches are doing effective work. The District of Columbia Branch leads with a membership of 900, Boston has 567, Baltimore runs a close second with 556 and among the younger branches Cleveland has the largest number, 250. A brief summary of their more important work follows, all of which has been described more fully from time to time in THE CRISIS.

ALTON, ILL.

Dr. George L. Samuels.............President
Mr. H.B. Coats....................Vice President
Mrs. Anna Gillis (1200 Wise St.)..Secretary
Mr. Joel Russell..................Treasurer
Executive Committee
Mr. H.B. Coats, Chairman
Miss H.I. Robinson
Mr. Joseph Craig
Mr. H.B. Hunter
Mrs. Mary Samuels
Mrs. I.H. Kelley

*BALTIMORE, MD.

Dr. F.N. Cardozo.............President
Mr. George B. Murphy.........Vice President
Miss Ethel A. Lewis..........Rec. Secretary
Miss Lucy D. Slow............Asst. Rec. Secretary
Miss Margaret A. Flagg (1405 Argyle Ave.)
Cor. Secretary
Dr. H.S. McCard...............Treasurer
Mr. W. Ashbie Hawkins.........Attorney
Executive Committee
Mr. George B. Murphy, Chairman
Mr. D.O.W. Holmes
Mr. W.T. McGuinn
Dr. A.O. Reid
Mr. E.B. Taylor
Mr. Julius C. Johnson
Rev. L.Z. Johnson
Rev. J.R.L. Diggs
Mr. Ashbie Hawkins

     The success of the Conference was largely due to this branch which contributed five hundred dollars in cash toward its expense and secured over two hundred new members during its three days' session. The branch has held thirty-three meetings during the year including several mass meetings and has given two concerts for the benefit of the Association. Its legal work, which has been brilliant, is described in the Chairman's report.

*BOSTON, MASS.

Mr. Francis J. Garrison..............President
Mr. George C. Bradford...............Treasurer
Mr. Butler R. Wilson (34 School Street)
Secretary
Executive Committee
Mr. Joseph P. Loud, Chairman
Miss Maria L. Baldwin
Mrs. May H. Loud
Dr. Horace G. Bumstead
Miss Adelene Moffat
Rev. Samuel A. Brown.

     Boston has held one hundred and twenty-one meetings including eighty-one parlor meetings, church and club meetings, reaching in this way eight thousand people. Early in the year the branch gave a reception at the Twentieth Century Club for the national officers of the Association. Through the efforts of Mrs. Butler R. Wilson, fifty-eight colored women arranged a series of musicals and dances which netted sixty dollars for the Association. Under the direction of Mrs. Francis J. Garrison, a committee of twelve ladies gave a concert at the home of the Misses Mason and sent the proceeds, $278, to the Association. At this concert the Caroline Belcher Quartette volunteered their services.
     The victory of the branch in persuading the Boston School Committee to withdraw from the schools a book entitled "Forty Best Songs," which contained words objectionable to colored people, was more far reaching than perhaps was realized at the time. This book was published by one of the leading text book companies of America. As soon as Southern representatives of this publishing house heard of the agitation in Boston, they wired for the whole edition, saying that they would have an increased market for the books in the South, because of the advertisement given them in Boston. They were advised that the firm had decided to withdraw the entire edition.

THE FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
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BUFFALO, N.Y.

Mr. John E. Brent.............President
Rev. Philip L. Frick..........Vice President
Miss Amelia G. Anderson (106 Walnut St.)
Secretary
Mr. Cornelius Ford............Treasurer

*CALIFORNIA, NORTHERN

Mr. Walter A. Butler.............President
Rev. David R. Wallace............Vice President
Miss Eva B. Jones (1929 Linden St., Oakland)
Secretary
Mrs. H.E. De Hart................Treasurer
Directors
Rev. David R. Wallace, Chairman
Mrs. Lutie Gilbert
Mrs. T. Tighman 
Mr. William N. Rocks
Mr. B.O. Johnson
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown
Miss Charlotte A. Whitney
Mrs. M.E. Terrell

     This branch has been successful in having discriminating signs removed from cheap restaurants and in getting favorable notice in the local press for the work of the Association including some editorial comment.

*CHICAGO, ILL.

Judge E.O. Brown.............President
Mrs. S. Laing Williams.......Vice President
Mr. T.W. Allinson............Treasurer
Mr. T.W. Allinson (701 West 14th Place)
Secretary
Mr. George R. Arthur.........Asst. Secretary
Directors
Miss Jane Addams
Dr. C.E. Bentley
Mrs. Emmons Blaine
Miss S.P. Breckenridge
Mr. Charles R. Crane
Dr. George C. Hall
Dr. Charles T. Hallinan
Mr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Mr. Robert McMurdy
Mr. George Packard
Mr. Julius Rosenwald
Miss Garnetta Tibbs

     Chicago has held several large and successful meetings culminating in a two days' summer tent festival which netted the branch over $400 which is to be used as the nucleus of a fund for the establishment of permanent headquarters.

*CLEVELAND, O.

Mr. Roddy K. Moon.............President
Mrs. Sarah Mitchell Bailey....Vice President
Mr. S.P. Keeble (2158 East 43rd Street)
Secretary
Mr. C.F. Hunnicutt............Treasurer
Executive Committee
Rev. Elam A. White
Rev. H.C. Bailey
Mr. Alexander H. Martin
Mr. Theodore B. Green
Mr. Chas. W. Chestnutt
Judge T.M. Kennedy

     The Cleveland Branch has checked indiscriminate arrests of colored men which were caused by a rumor that a Negro had attacked a patrolman and has taken the initiative in getting two colored people on the General Welfare Council of the city. In this it had the cooperation of several other organizations.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, N.Y.

Mr. H.B. Murray.............President
Mr. B.H. Stash..............Vice President
Mr. R.B.P. Waller...........Secretary
Mr. G.J. Rich (Cornell University)
Cor. Secretary
Mr. J.M. Ballou.............Treasurer

*DETROIT, MICH

Mr. William Osby.............President
Dr. A.H. Johnson.............Vice President
Rev. R.W. Bagnall (329 Antoine Street)
Secretary
Miss Addie Butler............Rec. Secretary
Mr. Walter Johnson...........Treasurer
Mr. Francis H. Warren........Attorney

     In February, this branch smothered an anti-intermarriage bill in the Michigan Legislature. It has fought fourteen civil rights cases and won four. It has secured the appointment of two colored detectives to the police force.