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4. Kqual recogniiXSin in Civil Service circles.
5. Closer anrptnore effective «o-opcvation between while and colored citizens.
6. More improved and more cipansive housing facilities for colored people.
7. More f'epresentatfve and meritorious positions tor colored people in state, county
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8. More unity, cxAnsion and co-operation in colored business arena.
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MR. RITCHIE AND THE NEGROES (From the Brooklyn Eagle (White), Dec. 8, 1931.) Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, is a possible Democraiie-^iiididattr-lirr'llie'^Pyesidential nomination in 1932. It Is a political misfortune for him that his fat i -—Feftrsal of protection to a Baltimore Negro lawyer, counsel for a Negro accused of murder in the Eastern Shore area, is followed by a lynching of another accused colored man in the same area, a lynching that in its cold barbarity compels a nation's attention.
In a row over wages, Mack Williams, a Negro, was said to have shot a prominent lumberman dead. What preceded the shooting, what the provocation was, my never be known. The shooter tried to kill himself. He put a bullet through his own chest. Then the lumberman's son fired on him and the shot made the Negro perfectly blind. In this shape he was taken to a hospital. A mob of 2,000 took him out, his head completely swathed in bandages, his chest wound bleeding, hanged him to a. lamppost, and then burned the body. He never saw Lis murderers.
Naturally, the Association for th? Advancement of Colored People sends a telegram to Governor Ritchie denouncing the mob-murder and saying:
We see a despatch quoting a speech of yours in which you appeal for full faith in American institutions and the American idea of democracy. We appeal to you not only as Governor of Maryland, but as a leading exponent of the American sjstem, to practice what you preach. However, nobody has the remotest expectation of any action by the Governor that will lead to the punishment ' of the lynchers. The Negroes cannot help or hinder Governor Ritchie's Presidential nomination. But, if he were to be nominated, they might use their marginal vote to lose him Now York, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, even in a Democratic year. In these states the Negro vote i§.jM*th""eas4-,.( and counted.
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