Organizer Flogged in
State of Texas
Raleigh, Aug. 25—There was much interest here in the
Associated Press dispatch from Texas telling of the flogging administered to
J.R. Shillady, the white man, secretary of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, which has local associations in many Southern as
well as northern states, the chastisement and expulsion of this man from Texas
having been a police judge, a constable and another who acted on the ground
that Shillady was inciting the Austin negroes to make trouble with the white
people.
The question of the probable numbers of local associations
and members among the negroes of North Carolina is being especially considered.
Raleigh has a local association, it is known, the head of it being a well known
negro undertaker. It was this organization that was sponsor for the negro
municipal ticket in the last election, which, to the great credit of the
Raleigh negro voters, received remarkably little support in proportion to the
normal strength of the negro vote.
The sentiment here is that the relations of the races in
Raleigh and all thru the state are most agreeable and satisfactory and, as
indicated to be the case in Texas, no activities among the negroes such as
contemplated in the operation of Shillady type of agitators are wanted. That
left alone, the “race problems” will not make the least disturbance or friction
in Raleigh or the state, leaders of both races having most excellent
understanding and co-operating well.
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