“ . . . we urgently appeal to our honored President, and hereby PETITION him to URGE the enactment into LAW . . . of either Senator France's or Representative Dyer ANTI-LYNCHING BILL.” Petition from the International Uplift League, 10/15/1922.
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Record Group 60: General Records of the Department of Justice, 1790 - 2002
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The International Uplift League
(Organized 1911: Re-Organized and Incorporated, A.D. 1915)
Object:-To Uplift and Develop the Colored Race Everywhere.
Motto:-Justice, Knowledge (Material and Spiritual) Health and Wealth.
President, Rev. Dr. Robert W. S. Thomas, M.A.
Treasurer, Mrs. Ruth M. Collett
Auditor, Charles M. Dorsey, Esq.
Chairman of the Executive Committee, Rev. George L. White, D.D., M.D.
General Secretary, David N.E. Campbell, M.D., M.O.
1369 N. Carey Street,
Baltimore, Md., U. S. A.
New Address,
119 Lefferts Place,
Brooklyn, New York.
ALL MEN UP!
Roosevelt.
Amended Petition. October 15th 1922.
A PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT
From
THE INTERNATIONAL UPLIFT LEAGUE.
To His Excellency,
The President of
The United States of America,
The White House, Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. President:
For the GOOD and true HONOR of our beloved country, the United States of America, in the NAME of ALMIGHTY GOD, LYNCHING should be abolished. Opinion seems unanimous that the United States Government possesses permanently the greater jurisdictional control (about 3/4) over each United States Citizen; and the State in which the citizen resides holds the remaining (1/4) jurisdiction.
Hence the elimination of LYNCHING, our most heinous STIGMA, should be accomplished through the Federal Government, because the respective States, for more than fifty years, have failed to suppress LYNCHING. Therefore, we urgently appeal to our honored President, and hereby PETITION him to URGE the enactment into LAW, during the Extra Session of Congress, of either Senator France's or Representative Dyer ANTI-LYNCHING BILL. By such worthy and magnanimous ACT, Mr. President, you will immortalize your NAME like the illustrious Lincoln when we signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Amen.
For the Women.
(Miss) Emma J. Chrichton
For the Men.
David Newton E. Campbell
Secretary I.U. League
P.S. We hope to secure millions of signatures to this PETITION and forward same duly.
VIce Presidents,
Rev. Dr. George F. Bragg, Jr.
Hon. Ernest Lyon, D.D., LL.D.
Rev. Dr. Wm. Sampson Brooks, D.D.
Rev. W.W. Allen, D.D.
Rev. Dr. Thomas F. Reed
Hon. George W.F. McMechen
Mrs. Mary F. Bond.
Rev. Junius Gray, D.D.
Rev. L.C. Curtis, D.D.
Rev. N.M. Carroll, D.D.
Charles B Rodgers, Esq.
Mrs. Alric R. Campbell.
Rev. Ananias Brown, D.D.
Rev. James R. Diggs, A.M.
Rev. Dr. J.A. Briscoe.
Rev. Dr. A.B. Callis, Washington, D.C.
Miss Nannie H. Burroughs.
Rev. William H. Dean, D.D.
Rev. J. Harvey Randolph, D.D.
Rev. M.W.D. Norman, D.D.
Rev. C. Harold Stepteau, D.D.
Dr. Charles H. Marshall.
Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D.D.
Directors,
Joseph P. Evans, Esq.
Miss. Mary A.E. Bennett.
Joshua F.G.L. Duvall.
Arthur L. Macbeth, Esq.
Joseph S. Fennell, Esq.
William H. Bates, Esq.
Columbus Gordon, Esq.
Dr. Robert W. Brown.
Dr. Luther E. McNeill.
Rev. T.A. Thomas.
Prof. Howard M. Gross.
Dr. E.C. Morris.
Mrs. Mary F. Handy.
Dr. A.A. Terrell.
Mrs. Fannie Jenkins.
Mrs. Urania M. Ross.
Samuel Carroll, Esq.
Dr. John W. Derry,
Dr. E. Verry Stokes.
Dr. Harry F. Brown.
Dr. J. Edward Fisher.
Rev. William Holt.
Rev. S.A. Virgil.
Rev. J.C. and Mrs. S. Love.
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