Realizing that the World War in Europe has already removed race dis-
criminations and political disabilities from every proscribed class in Europe,
except the Armenians and that the Entente Allies are fighting to relieve these,
realizing that now the Colored American stands as the worst prescribed per-
son in any civilized country in the world realizing that the United States
through its president, and cabinet officers declares its reason for entering
into the European war is to promote liberty and democracy over the world,
realizing that not only have Colored Americans sought to volunteer for this
war, but that hundreds of thousands of our young men are subject to be
by law to risk disease and death as soldiers in this war realizing
that all the classes Europe who have secured rights have assembled to-
gether and presented their demands for this reward for fighting- the New
England League, on June 13, 1917, called a national Colored conference on
the issue of world democracy for Americans of African extraction, which
formed the National Colored Liberty Conference and elected Prof Allen W
Whaley as Grand Organizer.
