Activities Among Negroes
The National Baptist unincorporated convention officials recently held a conference in Nashville, Tenn., when a partial program was mapped out for the annual convention of the organization, which will be held in Chicago September 9. Rev. D. R. Over [Rev. David Edward Over] of Denver stated that at the convention they planned to pay the last $25,000 on the national theological Seminary and missionary training school. This school is located in Nashville and cost $150,000. It is the only school of its kind in the United States, owned, controlled and operated by Negro people.
The National Baptist unincorporated convention is one of the largest Negro Baptist organizations in the world. Rev. G. C. Coleman, pastor of North Oakland Baptist church, is the vice-president of the organization. During the past week he has been in conference with Rev. D. C. Knox of Los Angeles, who is moderator of the Progressive Baptist Association and secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist unincorporated convention. The object of this conference was to formulate plans for the holding of a Chautauqua in Los Angeles during the month of July.
In the oratorical contest recently conducted by a San Francisco paper, the following appeared in the issue of May 10: "Miss Tabytha Anderson of Lowell High school takes second honors. The second speaker was Miss Tabytha Anderson of Lowell High school. Her address was analytical, revealing careful and painstaking study of her subject, a point that did much to win her second place in the judges' final verdict." Miss Anderson is a colored girl. a native of San Francisco, and has all through her school been rated high in scholarship. Her father was the Iate Oriville Anderson. The family are members of the Third Baptist church of San Francisco.
The recent general conference of the A. M. E. Zion church, held in Indianapolis, elected five additional bishops, namely: Rev. John W. Martin of St. Louis, C. C. Alleyne of New Rochelle. N. Y., Ed W. Jones of Washington, D. C.; W. J. Walls of Charlotte, N. C., and B. G. Shaw of Washington, D. C. Among other officers elected were: W. H. Davenport of North Carolina, editor of Star of Zion; W. O. Carrington, editor of the Quarterly Review; S. W. Watkins, re-elected head of the publishing house; F. M. Jacobs, re-elected general secretary; W. W. Mathus, re-elected secretary of foreign missions; C. S. Whitted, secretary of ministerial relief and brotherhood.
Among the women of distinction who attended the conference were Rev. Florence Randolph of Jersey City, who has spent 15 years in Africa working in Liberia and the West Gold Coast, and at her own expense she is educating a native boy-and assisting two girls; Mrs. Daisy V. Johnson of Birmingham, Ala, general secretary of the Women's Home and Foreign Missions, and Mrs. Anna L. Anderson of Pittsburg, corresponding secretary.
The following are the assignments of the newly elected bishops of the A. M. E. church conference, recently held in Louisville, Ky.. Bishop Ransom, to take the place of Bishop Carey in the Fourteenth Episcopal district of Kentucky and Tennessee; Bishop Vernon, to Oklahoma, California and Puget Sound; Bishop Gains, [Gaines] to Michigan and Canada; Bishop Greggs, [Gregg] to Africa; Bishop Carey, to Missouri, and Bishop Parks, to Louisiana and South America.
*The largest gift ever made by Negroes to any social or philanthropic work was the $25,000 Just made by Mr. and Mrs. Aaron E. Malone [Annie Turnbo Malone] of St. Louis, Mo. When this gift was announced to the central campaign committee, the Metropolitan. Y. M. C. A. directors stated that no single gift in the campaign so far would be as productive of results in securing large gifts from white people as this of Mr. and Mrs. Malone. A special committee visited Poro College and expressed to Mrs. Malone the appreciation of the entire organization. In response to the words of appreciation as expressed by the several members of the committee, she stated that she did not regard their money as belonging to herself and husband, but as belonging to God; and that instead of seeing it draw interest in the bank, she much preferred to have it draw interest in human character. She further stated that every time she saw scores of colored boys congregating on the corners, with few safeguards about them, she felt that there was a challenge to her and her husband.
At a mass meeting of citizens of the Pine street department gymnasium, the next day, Governor Sweet of Colorado was present and heard the statement from Mrs. Malone as to why she made the gift. The governor was so impressed that he requested that he and his party of friends be taken to Poro College, which they did, on a tour of inspection.
Mr. and Mrs. Malone recently passed through Oakland after having spent three months in Southern California.
Mrs. McDonald, an inmate of the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People in Beula, Cal., was found dead Wednesday morning. She was brought into California as a slave in 1856.
[I think this may have been her: Sarah Mildred (Whiting) McDonald. - MF]
