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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE

THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the new abolition society. It has twenty branches, ranging from New York to Washington and from Boston to San Francisco and Tacoma. It has the machinery to fight discrimination, and everywhere it is making that fight-against segregation in Baltimore and other cities, against segregation in work in the United States government departments, against "grandfather" laws and "Jim Crow" laws before the Supreme Court of the United States. Its branches are holding meetings of protest, its officers and directors are volunteering as speakers.
  Its chairman , in spite of the fact that he has been for twenty years a friend of Mr Wilson, and has warmly supported the present administration, personally and through his paper has taken a most aggressive stand in denunciation of the undemocratic policy of segregation which is being inaugurated in Washington. He has interviewed members of the Cabinet and the President himself. He has addressed large meetings of protest in Baltimore and Washington and is now preparing an article  for one of the leading magazines.
  The association sent an investigator to visit the departments in Washington where segregation was said to be in force. This report was released to the Associated Press and to other news services on November 17, when it was also sent to 500 newspapers, fifty religious papers, to magazine editors, to members of Congress, to ministers and many others. Copies may be obtained free of charge by applying to the National Association.
  Cases affecting the colored people now before the Supreme Court of the United States may decide the legal and political status of the Negro for years to come. The National Association is the only organization appearing for the colored people in these cases. it has filed a brief in the "grandfather" case now before the Supreme Court. This was prepared by the president, Mr Moorfield Storey, one of the leaders of the American bar, who, with Mr Harrison of Oklahoma, will argue the "Jim Crow" case set for this term.
The association has just engaged a lawyer to assist the legal committee in its work. The association has also engaged a man to watch every bill introduced into the House  and Senate in Washington. Discriminating bills have been appearing with increasing frequency, and without the careful watching of an expert may be railroaded through at any moment. The association is now preparing to fight the "Jim Crow" car bill which it is generally understood will be introduced in Congress in February. "Jim Crow" cars in Washington mean "Jim Crow" cars in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and perhaps even in New York and Boston. 
If you want to protest, enroll with us as a new abolitionist in the National Association, and do it now.

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THE N.A.A.C.P.

BRANCHES

BALTIMORE

ONLY a mention of the remarkable mass meetings held in Baltimore and Washington was included in the last number of  THE CRISIS,  since it went to press before the meetings had taken place.
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where the Baltimore meeting was held, was crowded to the doors. Mr. Warner T. McGuinn presided. Resolutions were adopted and wired to the President. The speakers were Dr. Spingarn, Miss Ovington, and Mr. Villard. After comparing the unAmerican policy of race segregation to the example set by Russia, Mr. Villard said in part: "But the stupidity of raising this issue does not stop there. It differs but very little from the one which rent the Union. The great struggle which convulsed the United States was, in its simplest terms, nothing else than the attempt of an aristocracy of cotton and land to create two classes of human beings in this country-the slaves and the free. They were willing to sacrifice the Union and everything else to this end. Those who in this day and generation are seeking to establish two classes of citizens- the disenfranchised and enfranchised-to say that there shall be two kinds of government employees- as does Mr. McAdoo's Cabinet associate- they are on the high road to convulsing anew this land of liberty, which will never know peace and quiet as long as there are discriminations among its citizens. Upon their heads will be the responsibility of forcing the issue and not upon ours."

BOSTON

A large and enthusiastic audience attended the mass meeting of protest against segregation which was held in the Park Street Church on October 20. Mr. Storey presided. The speakers included Senator Moses E. Clapp, Mr Albert E. Pillsbury, formerly attorney-general of the State, the Rev. Samuel H. Crothers, the Rev. Mr. Auten, Mr Rolfe Cobleigh, assistant editor of the Congregationalist, and Mr. Butler R. Wilson, secretary of the branch. Letters were received from Governor Foss, Congressman A.P. Gardner and Mr. C. S. Bird. Governor Foss wrote: " I have undertaken, as a citizen and as governor, to bring this matter to the attention of the President and have asked him to take such action as may bring an end to race discrimination in any department of government. It is proper for me to say, however, that I can hardly believe that at this late day any national administration will reopen the question of race discrimination in the United States. I therefore cannot believe that the reported acts of discrimination are a part of a settled policy, and cannot doubt that President Wilson will seedily put an end to conditions which, as reported to me, are unworthy of any free people."

TACOMA.

On October 17 a mass meeting of protest agaist segregation was held at Everett by the Tacoma branch. Delegates from Seattle and Tacoma were present and delivered adresses. Judge Bell, of the Superior Court of Everett, presided. Other speakers were Father Saindon, through whose courtesy the lecture room of the Catholic church was placed at the disposal of the meeting; Capt. K. K. Beecham, a vetern of the Civil War and captain of a Negro regiment, and Mrs. Nettie J. Asberry, secretary of the Tacoma branch, who explained the aims and objects of the National Association. Resolutions read by Mr. Joseph Griffin, secretary of the meeting, were forwarded to the President in care of Congressman Falconer. 

TOPEKA.

An entire evening devoted to the work of the National Association was arranged by the branch at the recent fair held at Lane Chapel. Mrs. Roundtree, secretary of the branch, spoke on the origin of the association; Mr. N. Sawyer, on its object; Mr. Guy, on the progress it has made, and the Rev. Mr. Walker, on the outlook. The branch plans to publisha series of short articles in the Topeka Daily Capital. These will be by white and colored writers of prominence, and will aim to explain and further the work of the association. 

WASHINGTON.

Within five blocks of the White House, in the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, on October 27, the most remarkable and epoch-making meeting ever held in the District of Columbia protested agaist segregation of colored emplyees in government departments. The crowd has been variously estimated at from 8,000 to