Activities Among Negroes
The visit of Miss Hallie Q. Brown has been one of the events of the last few weeks. Her short talk at one of the Community Chest drive luncheons in Hotel Oakland had the effect of stimulating the colored workers to go over the top in raising their quota. It also gave the other workers a better understanding of colored citizens.
The address that she gave before the California League of Women Voters at their luncheon Monday held in Hotel Oakland, was well received. Among other things she told of having worked in London, England, with Emile Pankhurst [Emmeline Pankhurst] for suffrage, and having spoken from the same platform with Susan B. Anthony in the interest of suffrage. But she regarded this luncheon the greatest of all the meetings she had ever attended, in one of the greatest cities in America, that of Oakland.
Miss Brown left Tuesday morning for Stockton, where she delivered her lecture on "Distinguished Negro Women" in the Congregational church (white) of that city.
She delivered this same lecture on Monday evening to the colored club women of Oakland. At the conclusion, Mrs. Hettie B. Tilghman, on behalf of the clubwomen, presented her a bouquet of several dozen red carnations, and Mrs. Vivian Osborn Marsh, on behalf of the Alpha chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority an immense bunch of several hundred violets and mignonetes and also a check for the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs educational campaign to raise $30,000. Miss Brown is a member of the Wilberforce chapter of this sorority.
The Sanhedrin conference recently held in Chicago, has passed into history as a success. Sixty organizations were represented. Dean Kelly Miller, of Howard University, Washington. D. C., who was responsible for the call, had the satisfaction of realizing the organization of an "all race" non-political conference representing the greatest minds of both men and women of the race.
Among the women of distinction in attendance were Miss Dorothy Pelham of Washington, D. C., the national president of Delta Sigma Theta. A reception was given for her by Lambda chapter of this sorority. Other guests of honor attending this reception which was held in the National University of Music were Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson, author and poet; Miss Jessie Fassett [Fauset] of the Crisis magazine, also an author and linguist of note. In the receiving line were the officers of the sorority, and Dr. Mary Waring, an honorary member. Dr. Fanny Emanuel, presented the guest to the president.
Miss Dorothy Maud Houston, a student at Dunbar school, Washington, D. C., has been awarded third prize in a short story contest conducted by the Washington, (D. C.) Star, for school children, on the stories appearing in that journal that appeal to them. Four prizes were given. Miss Houston, who is 15 years old, is the only colored student to win a prize. She had previously won a prize from the same paper for the best essay submitted during a recent contest.
The evening program of Young People's day, February 24 at First A. M. E. church, was held under the direction of the University and Scholarship Club of this church. The speaker for the evening was Professor Joseph V. Breitwieser, Ph.D., associate professor of education at University of California, who spoke on "Higher Education." A program of music was rendered by the junior choir under the direction of Professor Elmer Keaton.
Rev. G. C. Coleman, pastor of North Oakland Baptist church. celebrated his eleventh anniversary as pastor of this church during the past week. A special program of music and addresses were rendered every evening. The Rev. Rabbi Coffee spoke for him Sunday evening to a large and appreciative audience.
Washington, D. C., has another colored student who recently won a typewriter for accuracy and speed in a test. Cortez Peters, a graduate of the department of business practice, 1923.
Rev. Pryor, of First A. M. E. church, Oakland, has received a communication from Chicago Musical College stating that Miss La Verne Porter has arrived and begun her studies in music. She has a partial scholarship. This young girl was recently given a testimonial concert in Oakland.
The following persons have been elected as officers of the University of California Scholarship club. President J. H. Fisher vice-president; Allen O. Newman, financial secretary. Walter Gordon: recording secretary, Miss Ida Jackson, and treasurer, R. Edward Faucett.
