NEGRO PARLIAMENT
A great international convention of peoples, the second of its kind, has been meeting in New York, and .Mi.tklfl black delegates from all over tho wo-d have been present. It is like a parliament of the negro rate and all kinds of matters that concern the welfare of the black peoples of the world arer being d.-scussed, Ibe convention is an nmaring- ncluevement, and a fitting and striking symbol ot the progress the negro race ha* ma.'.:e -t--the past half-century. There is estimated to bo 131 mil bon negroes in the world ta-/Ifi>\ and at his great congress pr.-iclienJly nil are I *- sented. No «ivJ9 ioteenug Of any of the other groat divisions ot mmikuid has wvcv Iwen held. Neither the wbi.e »c® nor tho yellow rnce has teen able to achieve such a triumpn. To-day there are about 12 million negroes in the United Sta..e*. nn< on. out of five can road and wr..e, nhi e large numbers are highly f-ds.-iated, an manv are university professors, jnages. barristers, doctors, sclmolmasters, clergymen. members of-. Ihirnament c/ftorf, bankers, actors, musicians, and commercial magnates.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 42, 12 November 1921, Page 7
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184NEGRO PARLIAMENT Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 42, 12 November 1921, Page 7
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