The Meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People

The Meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People.

THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING WILL BE HELD SUNDAY EVENING AT SINAI TEMPLE, 46TH ST. AND GRAND BOULEVARD.

MAYOR AND MRS. CARTER H. HARRISON AND OTHER PROMINENT CITIZENS WILL SERVE ON THE LOCAL OR RECEPTION COMMITTEE.

MANY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS BEARING UPON THE RACE PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY WILL BE DISCUSSED BY ABLE SPEAKERS DURING THE THREE DAYS’ SESSIONS IN THIS CITY.

Mr. Sherman C. Kingsley, general chairman of the committee which is making preparations for the forthcoming conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, announced this week that the program was complete and that the conference promised to be one of the best attended and most significant in the history of the Association.

The final program is as follows:

First session, Sunday, April 28, at 8 o’clock, at the new Sinai Temple, Forty-sixth street and Grand boulevard (near Indiana avenue lines).

Subject: “Our Common Humanity,” Miss Jane Addams, chairman; Speakers: Dr. Emil G. Hrisch, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard of New York City, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, leader of the Bahá’í movement; and Prof. William Pickens of Talladega, Alabama. Good music.

Second session: Monday afternoon at Handel Hall, Randolph street near Wabash avenue. Subject: “Race Discrimination,” Mr. Sherman C. Kingsley, chairman. Speakers: Prof. W. E. B. Du Bois of New York city in address with lantern slides; and Judge Edward O. Brown, of the Court of Appeals.

Third session, Monday eve., same place. Subject: “The Rule of the Strong.” Bishop B. F. Lee of the Methodist Episcopal church, chairman. Speakers: Miss Julia Lathrop of Hull House; Dr. I. M. Rubinow, sociologist, of New York city; Charles Edward Russell of New York; President, H. T. Kealing of Western University, Kansas City, Kas.

Fourth session, Tuesday morning, same place. Subject: “The Work of the Association. Chairman, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard. Reports of delegates from twenty states.

Fifth session, informal reception at Hull House Tuesday afternoon. Good music and brief addresses by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and others.

Closing session, Tuesday evening at Handel Hall. “The Situation in Illinois. Chairman, Rev. Jenkins Lloyd Jones. Speakers: John H. Walker, president of the United Mine Workers of Illinois; Mrs. Ida Wells-Barnett; Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, president of the Juvenile Protective League.

All sessions are open to the public.

An honorary committee of well known Chicagoans have been appointed to arrange for the fourth annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People according to the announcement of T. W. Allinson, secretary of the committee.

The local committee consists of:

Mayor Harrison and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Bishop and Mrs. Charles P. Anderson, Judge and Mrs. George Carpenter, President Judson and Mrs. Judson, Dr. Emil G. Hirsch and Mrs. Hirsch, Dr. and Mrs. Frank W. Gunsaulus, Col. and Mrs. John R. Marshall, Judge and Mrs. Lysander Hill, the Messers. and Mesdames J. Ogden Armour, H. C. Chatfield-Taylor, E. B. Butler, R. T. Crane, Frederic Delano, John Crerar, George Carpenter, Alfred L. Baker, Joseph G. Coleman, William Amberg, Cyrus Bentley, John S. Runnells, John G. Shedd, William P. Sidley, Lessing Rosenthal, Morton D. Hull, Wallace D. Heckman, Marvin Hughitt, Medill McCormick, James Keeley, Victor Lawson, A. B. Dick, Bryan Lathrop, Kellogg Fairbanks, John V. Farwell, Stanley Field, Edward L. Ryerson, Francis T. Simmons, A. Stamford White, Louis F. Post, Mrs. C. L. Hutchinson, H. Harold McCormick, Robert McGann, Chauncey Keep, Frank I. Moulton, Andrew MacLeish, John O’Connor, Clifford Barnes, Mrs. T. B. Blackstone, Mrs. G. R. Arthur, Mrs. S. D. Brown, Mrs. H. M. Wilmath, A. H. Abbott, Mrs. Herman B. Butler, J. A. Denison, Charles H. Wacker, Mrs. Ella Flagg Young and other prominent citizens. Miss Jane Addams is honorary chairman.