Clark Atlanta University

And, uh, WCLO-K has given me the opportunity, that's based in Atlanta, Georgia.

That's where the home and the headquarters and of what I do is, um, we broadcast from the, the campus of, uh, Clark Atlanta University every, every week.

And the beauty of this information that she's sharing with it is because she's helped out thousands on national TV, and she's right on my show right now helping out us, giving us information, because she's that well-respected.

Uh, a regular-

Among the speakers was Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, who said, If anyone should ask me what special phase of the colored American's development makes me most hopeful of his ultimate triumph over present obstacles, I should answer unhesitatingly, it is the magnificent work the women are doing to regenerate and elevate the race.

the rev dr joseph elias haynes a colored minister physician and author died lately he was born in slavery in charleston south carolina and served all through the civil war as commissary sergeant in a regiment of volunteers on the union side after the close of the war he was graduated from atlanta university he then studied at wilberforce and at harvard he was the author of the negro in sacred history the black man in natural history and other works He recently organized a soap company in Brooklyn so as to raise money to publish his life work entitled The Blood.

He is survived by a widow and three sons.

Dr. Haynes was a member of the General Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Much has been written and said about the great movement of women's clubs all over America, east, west, north, and south.

This has perhaps been mostly talked of here in our home city, where one is familiar with hundreds of these splendid working bodies, all doing interesting things, but organized and run mostly for and by women interested in progress for women of their own class and color.

Therefore, it is with the greatest satisfaction as well as surprised to find that the colored women also have their own large organizations established all over this country each doing a work quite on a plane with anything yet attempted by other american women in number fourteen of the atlanta university publications there is a most thorough and graphic account of these clubs revealing a spirit of progress and organization most remarkable considering the drawbacks these colored women have encountered and the comparatively short time in which they have had not alone opportunity but even the privilege of working for the development and culture of their own sex in referring to that quite remarkable organization the national association of colored women mrs josephine s yates the honorary president writes as follows an inquiry into existing organizations among our women reveals the fact that most of these are auxiliary societies founded and controlled by men or by the combined efforts of men and women also that usually they are secret orders or connected with various church denominations and furthermore that in their respective fields much work of high order has been accomplished there is however one notable exception to the rule stated in the previous paragraph relative to organizations of women and this is to be found in the national association of colored women an organization founded and controlled entirely by women this colored women's association has held its conventions in the various cities of the south and west with much success that these meetings were well thought of and their business methods approved is shown by the following editorial from the daily news of chicago whose editor says of all the conventions that have met in the country this summer there is none that has taken hold of the business in hand with more good sense and judgment than the national association of colored women now assembled in this city the subjects brought up the manner of their treatment and the decisions reached exhibit wide and appreciative knowledge of conditions confronting the colored people the national association of colored women has many departments comprising all sorts and variety of club work its branches are to be found in many of the large cities in the west federations of these clubs comprising in some instances as many as forty-five clubs in one state have been formed all doing active and useful work the virginia president reports as follows We have connected with the State Federation of Colored Women of Virginia, clubs whose members are actively engaged in home, school, church, village improvement, rescue work, and social settlements, and they are doing good work.

These clubs had been organized and working long before the State Federation was organized, so that explains how we can do so much work in so short a time.

Oh, wow.

And I chose Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia.

Which is now Clark Atlanta University.

Yes.

So you're a HBCU grad.

He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Fisk University in 1888, the same degree at Harvard in 1890, that of Master of Arts at Harvard in 1891, and, after a season of study at the University of Berlin, received also the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard in 1895, his thesis being his exhaustive study, Suppression of the Slave Trade.

dr du bois taught for a brief period at wilberforce university and was also for a time an assistant and fellow in sociology at the university of pennsylvania producing in eighteen ninety nine his study the philadelphia negro in eighteen ninety six he accepted the professorship of history and economics at atlanta university the position which he left in 1910 to become Director of Publicity and Research for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

In connection with this work, he has edited The Crisis since the beginning of that publication.

He has made various investigations, frequently for the national government, and has contributed many sociological studies to leading magazines.

he has been the moving spirit of the atlanta conference and by the studies of negro problems which he has edited at atlanta university he has become recognized as one of the great sociologists of the day and as the man who more than anyone else has given scientific accuracy to studies relating to the negro aside from his more technical studies these including the masterly little book the negro in holt's home university library series Dr. Dubois has written three books which call for consideration in a review of Negro literature.

Of these, one is a biography, one a novel, and the other a collection of essays.

In 1909 was published John Brown, a contribution to the series of American Crisis Biographies.

quite different and of much more sympathetic temper are the shadow a novel by mary white olvington harcourt brace co new york nineteen twenty and george matten martin's children of the mist a collection of stories about the people in the lowlands of the south d appleton co new york nineteen twenty in the field of the theatre and the drama there has been progress though the lower order of popular comedy still makes strong appeal and of course all legitimate drama has recently had to meet the competition of moving pictures in connection with which several members of the race have in one way or another won success Outstanding is Noble M. Johnson, originally of Colorado, a man of great personal gifts and with a face and figure admirably adapted to Indian as well as Negro parts.