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Negrophiles are constantly poking fun at the names of Negro organizations in the stories of Octavus Roy Cohen, Harris Dickson, Roark Bradford et al., saying such names are gross burlesque. Following are the names of some Negro societies in Mississippi, transcribed from the records of charters of incorporation in the office of Secretary of State Walker Wood at Jackson...
...fact that the Trinity vestry invited a Red into this atmosphere there were only a few possible explanations. The vestry may have been sublimely ignorant of the background of earnest young Bradford Young-which it later denied. It undoubtedly was influenced by California's Episcopal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, who recommended Mr. Young and who is himself openly a Socialist in the face of disheartening opposition...
Before Rector-elect Young reached San Francisco, the vestry announced it was "investigating" him. Little investigation was necessary-the Industrial Association had a dossier on L. Bradford Young...
Since under church law the vestry could not rescind its call, it wrangled last fortnight over what to do, until Bradford Young solved the matter by offering his resignation. And as that young man packed up once more and entrained for the East, the vestry issued a statement concurred in by five of its members but not by three others who stood with their Bishop. Mr. Young's record and his "social point of view," said the statement, "might react unfavorably upon the minds of this community, because of past or possible future difficulties here, which have made...
Last week Bradford Young arrived in Brooklyn, resumed his old post at Holy Trinity Church. His superior, Rev. Dr. John Howard Melish, welcomed him genially: "I think of him as my son. Speaking for myself, I am delighted that the San Francisco church doesn't want him." In San Francisco the real loser in the battle, Bishop Parsons, mounted the pulpit of rectorless Trinity Church, spoke mystically. Said he: "He brought a fine Christian spirit to a very difficult situation in San Francisco. At my invitation he came, he saw and-in a deep sense-he conquered...