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FREEDOMWAYS SECOND QUARTER 1973 _____________________________ 1 Baltimore Sun, 29 September 1972; Jet, 1 March 1973, pp. 28ff. 2 The Amenia Conference, W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, Troutbeck Leaflets, Number Eight, September 1925, pp. 11, 12, 13. From the South came Lucy Lancy, John Hope, Henry A. Hunt, and R. R. Wright of Georgia; Emmett J. Scott of Alabama, former Secretary of Booker Washington; J. C. Napier of Tennessee. From the West came Francis H. Warren of Detroit, Charles E. Bentley and George W. Ellis of Chicago, Mary B. Talbert of Buffalo, Charles W. Chesnutt of Cleveland, and B. S. Brown of Minnesota. Washington was represented by Mary Church Terrell, James A. Cobb, George W. Cook, Kelly Miller, L. M. Hershaw, Montgomery Gregory, Neval H. Thomas, and J. R. Hawkins. From Pennsylvania came Leslie Hill, L. J. Coppin, R. R. Wright Jr., and W. Justin Carter. New York sent Fred Moore, Hutchins Bishop, James W. and J. Rosamond Johnson, Addie Hunton, W. L. Bulkley, William Pickens and Roy Nash, hen secretary of the NAACP. Baltimore gave us Mason Hawkins and Ashbie Hawkins and Bishop Hurst. New England sent William H. Lewis, George W. Craford, and Garnet Waller. Guests dropped by, the governor of the state, a member of Congress, a university president, an army officer, a distinguished grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, a Harlem real estate man, businessmen, and politicians. Women there to complete the conference; Mrs. Terrell, Mary B. Talbert, Mrs. Hunton, Lucy Lancy, Dr. Morton Jones of Brooklyn; Inez Milholland, in this which was destined to be almost the last year of her life. 3 Ibid, pp. 14, 15. "The Amenia Conference believes that its members have arrived at a virtual unanimity of opinion in regard to certain principles and that a more or less definite result may be expected from its deliberations. These principles and this practical result may be summarized as follows: "(1) The conference believes that all forms of education are desirable for the Negro and that every form of education should be encouraged and advanced. "(2) It believes that the Negro, in common with all other races, cannot achieve its highest development without complete political freedom. "(3) It believes that this development and this freedom cannot be furthered without organization and without a practical working understanding among the leaders of the colored race. "(4) It believes that antiquated subjects of controversy, ancient suspicions and factional alignments must be eliminated and forgotten if this organization of the race and this practical working understanding of its leaders are to be achieved. "(5) It realizes the peculiar difficulties which surround this problem in the South and the special need of understanding between leaders of the race who live in the South and those who live in the North. It has learned to understand and respect the good faith, methods and ideals of those who are working for the solution of this problem in various sections of the country. "(6) The conference pledges itself to the inviolale privacy of all its deliberations. These conclusions, however, and the amicable results of all the deliberations of the conference are fair subjects for discussion in the colored press and elsewhere. "(7) The conference feels that mutual understanding would be encouraged if the leaders of the race could meet annually for private and informal discussion under conditions similar to those which have prevailed at this conference." 4 Crisis, Vol. 12, No. 6, October 1916, pp. 276ff; Vol. 40, No. 10, November 1938, pp. 226ff. 5 Abram Harris: "The Negro Workers, A Problem of Progressive Labor Action," Crisis, Vol. 37, No. 3, March 1930, 00. 83ff. 134
