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Monday, August 26, 2019

NAACP Organizer Flogged, Thrown Out of Texas for Inciting Austin Negroes, Aug. 26, 1919

From The Western Sentinel, Winston-Salem, N.C., Aug. 26, 1919

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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