To Create a Negro Industrial Commission to Create a Commission on the Racial Question. Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives Sixty-Eighth Congress First Session on H.R. 3228 and H. R. 5564. April 10, 11, and May 7, 1924. Serial 35
Washington: GPO, 1924. Paperback. 74p. Stapled softcover. No separate wrapper. 24 cm. A sound and clean copy with most leaves somewhat browned around edges. Among those testifying in support of H.R. 3228 (Industrial Commission) these pieces of proposed legislation were J. Stanley Durkee, President of Howard University and Giles B. Jackson, a Virginia lawyer, the moving force behind this piece of legislation and responsible for the creation of the "Negro Building" at the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. James Weldon Johnson of the NAACP sent a letter endorsing H. R. 5564 (Racial Commission) while saying that he had not been able to prepare a brief on the bill. Mary Mossell Griffin, National Legislative Chairman of the National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, and James L. Neill, Recording Secretary of the National Equal Rights League, spoke in opposition to H.R. 5564, arguing that the Labor Department could do a better job. Neither piece of legislation was enacted. Very Good. Item #93150
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