Interracial News Service, vol. 10, no. 5. October, 1939
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. <br /><br />The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. <br /><br />Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.'<br />The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." <br /><br />This issue begins with the section "Negroes and the War." "The outbreak of war in Europt has brought penetrating comments from Negroes. We quote from editorials in various papers--all published by Negroes." The use of black troops by colonial powers is denounced. <br /><br />Other items include a notice that Booker T. Washington is to be the first black American honored by the U. S. Government with his face on a postage stamp; the appointment of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/obituaries/10bolin.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="NYTimes obituary for Jane Bolin">Jane Bolin</a> as the first African American woman judge; and the significant bequest of <a href="https://hamiltonhistorical.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="more about John W. Underhill">John W. Underhill</a> to Mays Landing, N.J. <br />
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1939 October
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The Southern Frontier, vol. 1, no. 12
Published by Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), The Southern Frontier was a monthly newsletter, first issued in January, 1940. Aiming to share the stories overlooked by traditional newspapers, the newsletter published stories of social progress, as well as stories of racial injustices faced by African Americans across the American South. <br /><br />As described by the then President of the CIC Howard W. Odum, the name The Southern Frontier alludes to the need for even greater pioneering and progress in the social and cultural frontiers, the American South being the most turbulent field in reference to race relations and progress at the time.<br /><br />Vol. 1, No. 12 contains contributions by:<br /><br />Felton G. Clark<br />Charles S. Johnson<br /><br />Selected articles are:<br /><br />“The South, the Supreme Court and Negro Education” – An article concerning the obstacles faced by graduate education-seeking African Americas in the South. <br /><br />“Negroes Must Serve on Grand Juries” – An article condemning instances of purposefully excluding African Americans from serving on juries.
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
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1940 December
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The Southern Frontier, vol. 1, no. 11
Published by Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), The Southern Frontier was a monthly newsletter, first issued in January, 1940. Aiming to share the stories overlooked by traditional newspapers, the newsletter published stories of social progress, as well as stories of racial injustices faced by African Americans across the American South. <br /><br />As described by the then President of the CIC Howard W. Odum, the name The Southern Frontier alludes to the need for even greater pioneering and progress in the social and cultural frontiers, the American South being the most turbulent field in reference to race relations and progress at the time.<br /><br />Vol. 1, No. 11 contains contributions by:<br /><br />William B. Ruggles<br />Carter Wesley<br />John Wesley Dobbs<br />Robert C. Weaver<br /><br />Selected articles are:<br /><br />“The Negro Vote” – Column on African American party loyalty, and a critique of the Republican party’s appeasement and isolationist tendencies during the rise of Hitler in Europe.<br /><br />“Local Interracial Committees are Busy” – A page of short columns, detailing the activities of regional interracial committees in Georgia, Texas, and South Carolina.<br /><br />Articles on p. 3 concern the participation of African Americans in the Armed Forces. Dr. F. D. Patterson of Tuskegee Institute, Dr. Rayford Logan of Howard University, and Dr. Howard Long of the public schools of the District of Columbia visited the White House to discuss with the President possibilities of African Americans participation in the national defense. The work of Dr. Robert C. Weaver in this regard is noted.<br /><br />There is a brief notice (p. 2) that October 20 the Post Office Department issued a special stamp commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery. In April (1940) a stamp with the likeness of Booker T. Washington was the first time that an African American was honored in this way.
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
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1940 November
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Ratify the Multilateral Treaty "Paris Peace Pact." Why? Why? [leaflet]
Leaflet promoting ratification of the "Paris Peace Pact" (Kellogg-Briand Pact).
National Council for Prevention of War
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Why the Briand-Kellogg Treaty? Can the United States Ignore Foreign Affairs? [handbill]
Leaflet promoting ratification of the Briand-Kellogg Treaty (Kellogg-Briand Pact).<br /><br />"Can the United States Ignore Foreign Affairs?<br />FOREIGN AFFAIRS sent our Boys into the Trenches in Europe...FOREIGN AFFAIRS affect our Taxes. FOREIGN AFFAIRS, whether we like it or not, ARE the Affairs of the United States.<br /><br />A NEW WORLD SITUATION<br />The Great World has shrunk and become both Small and Complex. Time and Space are annihilated by the Inventor's Magic...."In Our Day Newspapers, Movies, Radios and Aeroplanes bring the World to each one's door."
National Council for Prevention of War
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We MUST End War [handbill]
Leaflet encouraging early ratification of the Paris Pact (The Kellogg-Briand Pact) by the National Council for Prevention of War
National Council for Prevention of War
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It is Eleven Years Since the World War Broke. This Summer Peace Workers Will Agitate for "Law--Not War"
Publicity for the 1925 "Law--Not War" campaign of the National Council for Prevention of War. <br />Includes information on purchasing "America First" posters, cards, and postcards.
[National Council for Prevention of War]
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[1925]
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Learn More:<br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/146" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">America First</a> [postcard]
Law Not War [broadside]
Broadside published by the National Council for Prevention of War (previous name, National Council for Reduction of Armaments)
National Council for Prevention of War
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No More War [broadside]
Broadside published by the National Council for Reduction of Armaments, Washington, D.C.
National Council for Reduction of Armaments
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[1922]
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America First [postcard]
Postcard advertising the sale of posters, cards, and postcards printed with this anti-war message. Part of a campaign by the National Council for Prevention of War.<br /><br />Text:
<p>America First<br />Not merely in matters material, but in things of the spirit.<br />Not merely in science, inventions, motors, and skyscrapers, but also in ideals, principles, character.<br />Not merely in the calm assertion of rights, but in the glad assumption of duties.<br />Not flaunting her strength as a giant, but bending in helpfulness over a sick and wounded world like a Good Samaritan.<br />Not in splendid isolation, but in courageous cooperation.<br />Not in pride, arrogance, and disdain of other races and peoples, but in sympathy, love, and understanding.<br />Not in treading again the old, worn, bloody pathway which ends inevitably in chaos and disaster, but in blazing a new trail, along which, please God, other nations will follow, into the new Jerusalem where wars shall be no more. <br />Some day some nation must take that path -- unless we are to lapse once again into utter barbarism -- and that honor I covet for my beloved America.<br />And so, in that spirit and with these hopes, I say with all my heart and soul, "AMERICA FIRST."<br /><br />From a Sermon by Bishop G. Ashton Oldham, in Washington, D.C., September 7, 1924.<br /><br /></p>
National Council for Prevention of War
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1924
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War Messages to The American People: Why Men Need Equal Suffrage for Women
"War Messages to The American People: Why Men Need Equal Suffrage for Women" is a booklet written by A. Caswell Ellis and details four key points regarding why American men need equal suffrage for women. According to Ellis, "<em>First</em>, the men of this nation must grant equal suffrage to women fully, freely and cheerfully <em>at once, </em>in order to square their nation's acts with its declarations...<em>Second</em>, we need woman's suffrage to protect us and our government from our own one-sided masculine view of life...<em>Third</em>, men need to grant to women the privileges and duties of citizenship in order to strengthen the weakening family bond and enrich and eleveate the home life for themselves and their children...<em>Fourth</em>, and most far reaching of all, man must grant equal suffrage to woman in order to refine his own sense of justice which is inevitably dulled by the continued toleration of any acts of injustice."
Ellis, A. Caswell
M 9 Box 48, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc.
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World Cooperation Campaign. Stop War -- Cooperate [promotional material]
Publication of the National Council for Prevention of War to promote the 1924 Campaign for World Cooperation. Under the direction of Frederick Libby, this group organized various anti-war campaigns.<br /><br />The World Cooperation Campaign in 1924 marked the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. <br /><br />"'STOP WAR! COOPERATE!' will be the keynote of the observance in America of the Tenth Anniversary of the Outbreak of the WOrld War, July 26-27. It will mark the beginning of a nation-wide campaign t give World Cooperation its rightful place as the foremost issue in the coming election campaign. If we can't stop war, nothing else matters. Another World War would be the end of the white civilization.<br /><br />By the use of posters and fliers and through meetings, religious services, parades and other features, the people of America will register their determination that <em>Isolation is not acceptable</em> as an American policy in foreighn affairs and that only through <em>Cooperation can </em>we <i>Stop War."</i>
National Council for Prevention of War
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National Council for Prevention of War
1924
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Stop War Cooperate [handbill.]
Single-sided handbill. Text reads:<br /><br />Stop War. Cooperate<br />World Cooperation Campaign, July 26-27 to Nov. 11, 1924<br />10th Anniversary Outbreak of World War<br /><br />For additional copies of this poster, address National Council for Prevention of War, 532 17th St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
National Council for Prevention of War
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1924
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The Home Defense: War Messages to The American People
This booklet by Carrie Chapman Catt likens suffrage to patriotism. According to Catt, the United States "is engaged in two wars, one with an enemy in Europe and one with an enemy at home. Many an American family is left behind without a voter to represent it. Many a voter will never return and will leave no one behind to protect that which was his at the polls...The remedy and the defense is the immediate enfranchisement of women by the shortest process." <br /><br />"Women of American birth and spirit have been humiliated and distressed as few men understand by the fact that men of American birth and understanding have not arisen in their might to protest against such foreign invasion of American politics and the consequent hindrance of the normal progress of representative government - the ideal to which our country is dedicated above all others!"
Catt, Carrie Chapman
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National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co.
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How Our Nation Spends Its Income
This leaflet created by E. B. Rosa, Chief Physicist, U.S. Bureau of Standards, was published by the Boston League of Women Voters. It is an analysis of the total appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. <br /><br />"Taxation for the Federal Government for this year averaged 50 dollars per person; of this only 50 cents per person was spent for research, education, and development."
Rosa, E. B.
M 86 Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00079.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Boston League of Women Voters
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Women's Work and War
Women's Work and War: A Bulletin of Facts Concerning the Employment of Women to Meet the Deficit of Man Power in Our National Industrial Emergency. Published by the National Women's Trade Union League. <br /><br />p.1 "The working women are eager to help win the war. To make their help effective is a problem which must be generally discussed. Therefore this Bulletin."<br /><br />"The United States is now calling into action two armies. The first is an army of men, trained and equipped for service. It carries with it all the splendid panoply of war.<br /><br />The second is a woman's army. It is neither trained nor equipped, nor conscious of its unity. Yet to give good service it must be all those things. <br /><br />The women's army is as necessary to us at this time as the men's army, it will feed and clothe and munition the men in the trenches. As more men are called to the training camps women will step into their places in the shops, thus constantly increasing the army of women upon whose shoulders will rest the whole economic burden of this country."<br /><br />p.4 The NWTUL advocated for reasonable standards for women workers on Government contracts. This pamphlet outlines those standards as follows:<br /><br />"Adult labor.<br />Wages-- <br />1. The highest rate prevailing in the industry effected.<br />2. Equal pay for equal work.<br />3. Trades without wage standards to be handled by an adjustment committee.<br />4. Adjustment committee to handle all wage questions and to keep all wages in fair proportion to increasing cost of living.<br />The Eight Hour Day.<br />One day rest in seven.<br />Prohibition of night work for women.<br />Standards of sanitation and fire protection.<br />Protection against over-fatigue and industrial diseases.<br />Prohibition of tenement house labor.<br />Exemption from call into industry of women whose small children need their care.<br />Exemption from call into industry of women two months before and after child birth."<br /><br />Note postmark promoting food conservation during World War I. <br />"Food will win the war. Don't waste it."
National Women's Trade Union League
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National Women's Trade Union League
1918 February
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"The Next War:" A digest prepared for the LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS by Mr. Irwin of his book, "THE NEXT WAR"
A digest prepared for the League of Women Voters by Will Irwin, who authored "The Next War." This next war refers to "young women [being] drafted like the young men for employment in the clerical work of war and in munition making." Therefore, Irwin claims, "the great task before the humanity of the twentieth century is to eliminate war." <br /><br />Cartoon by J. M. Baer (John Miller Baer). Reprinted from <em>Labor. </em>
Irwin, Will
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E. P. Dutton & Company
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Learn more: <br />Reid, B.G. (1977). <a href="https://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/sites/default/files/digital/files/2010/01/JohnBaerArticleJan2010.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">John Miller Baer: Nonpartisan League Cartoonist and Congressman</a>. <em>North Dakota History</em> (44-1) Winter 1977. State Historical Society of North Dakota. <br /><span> </span><a href="https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/baer_j.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">John Miller Baer Cartoons</a>. Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries<br /><a href="http://digitalhorizonsonline.org/digital/collection/ndsu-npl/search/searchterm/Baer,%20John%20Miller/field/creato/mode/exact/conn/and/order/title/ad/asc/cosuppress/0" target="_blank" title="View Baer's political cartoons" rel="noreferrer">John Miller Baer Cartoon Collection</a>. <a href="http://digitalhorizonsonline.org/digital/about" target="_blank" title="Digital Horizons consortium" rel="noreferrer">Digital Horizons</a>. <a href="http://library.ndsu.edu/tools/dspace/load/?file=/repository/bitstream/handle/10365/6983/PhotoFolio0108.pdf?sequence=3" title="View collection description" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Finding aid</a> from Institute for Regional Studies and University Archives, North Dakota State University Libraries.
Standards for the Employment of Women in Work on War Supplies as submitted to the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense
A report from the Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense. <br /><br />These standards include recommendations on tenement house work, child labor, protection of mothers, wages, hours, seats, extra heavy and extra hazardous occupations, dangerous trades, heavy lifting, and exposure to heat and cold. <br /><br />Header: Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense, Washington, D.C.<br /><br />"Your Committee on Women in Industry urges the adoption of the following standards for work done for the Government in order to secure the fullest possible protection for women wage-earners."
Committee on Women in Industry. Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense.
M 86 Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00079.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense
1918
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more:<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/mothers-aid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mother's Aid</a>, Social Welfare History Project