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...Robert Russa Moton, grey-wooled Negro principal of Tuskegee Institute, was sitting on the stage close to General Smuts. Gravely he got to his feet as the speaker finished and raised his deep voice...
...Moton sat down, apparently satisfied with the explanation. But other Negroes throughout the land were not satisfied. Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, editor of The Crisis, challenged General Smuts to a debate on black and white relations in Africa. Field Secretary William Pickens of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People condemned the General's "amazing philosophy," likened his logic to that of a Mississippi politician discussing U. S. Negro privileges in Harlem...
...Moton, for his work in race relations, went last week a gold medal and $1,000, the highest of sixteen Harmon awards for distinguished achievement among Negroes...
...time high record for lynchings in the U. S. was set in 1892 with 100 white victims, 155 black. Last year ten persons, seven of them Negroes, were mobbed to death, an all-time low record. So showed the figures of Dr. Robert Russa Moton,* Negro principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which annually compiles lynching's Black List...
Pleased was Dr. Moton to state: "There were 27 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings ... 24 of them in Southern States. . . In three instances armed force was used to repel would-be lynchers. . . . Twenty Negro men and two Negro women were thus saved from death at the hands of mobs...