RACE DISCRIMINATION
NEGRO'S EFFECTIVE PROTEST. INCIDENT AT INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION. Pnn Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, May 6. (Received May 6, at 10.15 p.m.) Delegates attending the quinquennial convention of the International Council of "Women came face to face with a typically American problem while assembled to hear a programme of American music. The programme was designed to show the development of American music and in eluded negro spirituals of the 1860 period and modem compositions. Tho negroes, however, refused to sing because the members of their race were not included among the delegates to the convention, but had been segregated in tho audience. When a representative of the negroes announced this decision because of the disenmination against their race all the negroes left the auditorium. —A. and N./.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19473, 7 May 1925, Page 9
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