FirstComplete denial of Civil Rights
for American citizens because of race and color in the Southern states
and a partial and growing denial in Northern states.
Seconds-Segregation of Citizens for Race and Color
in all public facilities and places of accommodation and resort in these
Southern states, including even libraries, street cars, and residences,
degrading system of Jim-Crowism.
ThirdUnequal and Inadequate School Provisions
in the South for Colored persons with a tendency to limit educational
advantages to elementary and industrial lines, even unequal application
of federal school appropriations to Southern states.
FourthRace and Color Segregation By or Within the Federal Government,
a policy which never approached the official stage until this admin-
istration now existing as to the public lavatories and working positions
in the department buildings at Washington under the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Postmaster General, constituting the introduction of
caste into the national government, a humiliaion of one-tenth of the
people, a violation of the principles of Civil Service Reform.
FifthDisfranchisement for Race or Color,
almost universally prevalent in the Southern states in violation of the
spirit and letter of the federal law, taking away a citizen's only defense
in a Republic, not, as claimed, by a voting test, but the application of
severe tests: one the insuperable test for Colored citizens and based on
ancestry and no test for white citizens.
SixthThe Denial of Right of Trial by Jury and Substitution of Lynching
law.
Because of race or colori horrible savage practice, the full
fruitdread results of all before mentioned color discrimination and
denial of the suffrage.
