Resolution, District of Columbia Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Title
Resolution, District of Columbia Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Creator
Grimké, Archibald Henry, 1849-1930
Identifier
TI00153
Date
1919 March 13
Description
Resolution requesting that acts of racial discrimination in federal bureaus and offices be discontinued.
Source
National Archives and Records Administration 450/79/11/7 box #64 entry #12A1
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Subject
African-Americans--segregation
Language
English
Text
RESOLUTION.
Proposed and Adopted at January Meeting of the District of Columbia Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
A. M. Grimke, President. 1415 - Corcoran Street, N. W.
Whereas, the officers of this Association have collected evidence of several well authenticated cases of gross discrimination on account of race or color in several bureaux or offices of the government, by their refusal to appoint Colored applicants who have passed the Civil Service tests, in some cases having been many times certified by the Civil Service Commission, in others where the applicants have received written notice that they had been accepted or appointed, but have been refused employment on account of race or color.
Resolved, by the District of Columbia Branch, with a membership of over 7,000, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with a membership of over 40,000, that such acts of discrimination in employment on account of race, are unjust and a disgrace to democracy. And against them we enter our most solemn protest.
Resolved further, that copies of this resolution be sent to the heads of Departments and bureaux where these discriminations occur and that our officers continue to urge that they be discontinued as they are a monstrous injustice to the Colored People.
Proposed and Adopted at January Meeting of the District of Columbia Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
A. M. Grimke, President. 1415 - Corcoran Street, N. W.
Whereas, the officers of this Association have collected evidence of several well authenticated cases of gross discrimination on account of race or color in several bureaux or offices of the government, by their refusal to appoint Colored applicants who have passed the Civil Service tests, in some cases having been many times certified by the Civil Service Commission, in others where the applicants have received written notice that they had been accepted or appointed, but have been refused employment on account of race or color.
Resolved, by the District of Columbia Branch, with a membership of over 7,000, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with a membership of over 40,000, that such acts of discrimination in employment on account of race, are unjust and a disgrace to democracy. And against them we enter our most solemn protest.
Resolved further, that copies of this resolution be sent to the heads of Departments and bureaux where these discriminations occur and that our officers continue to urge that they be discontinued as they are a monstrous injustice to the Colored People.
Original Format
Proclamation
Files
Collection
Citation
Grimké, Archibald Henry, 1849-1930, “Resolution, District of Columbia Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,” 1919 March 13, TI00153, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.