The Black Dispatch from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 2

niiTrnrr tthkv nnm imn nmwi ii ww in AOE TWO THe BLAOK DIWATCH The Achievement and Progress of the homa Federation of Colored Women's Remarkable Record of Constructive Developement and Uplift Un surpassed in Faith and Courage i piiOU I COUilO IU WUJ VM uuovtiuu nc must combine our strength and labor Legislative Program Realized Thousands Invested in Property Attack National Problems '1o' together for good and as we look club is a meeting ground for those of purpose On this our twelfth anniversary, it seems only fitting that we should stop and consider, review the past and look at the results which have come to us through the combined organized womanhood of our state When we met in that little meeting in Oklahoma City twelve years ago, we met with a purpose We realized that the forces which made for our uplift were few, our needs were numerous We knew that to accomplish results in any given direction we Mrs Ethel White Brewer, Chairman Executive Board Mrs Haynes, assistant secretary Mrs Ada Young, chaplain, Guthrie Mrs Rushing, statistician, Muskogee Mrs Horton, Parliamentarian Lifting As We Climb Early in the year of 1910 a few Negro women of Oklahoma City, realizing the benefits which had come to them through the close association of club work, conceived the idea of making plans whereby they might get together with other women in various parts of the state and in some way not only help and encourage each other but devise ways and means of spreading the club work in the state, thus inspiring to greater effort a larger number of our women than could be reached in any other way An invitation was issued by the East Side Culture Club of Oklahoma City, urging all the other clubs of the state to meet with them for the purpose of organizing a state federation of Negro women's clubs With that spirit of race pride which is in the heart of every Negro woman worth while, that spirit of interest and desire to accomplish, that spirit which has made the Negro woman one of the greatest factors in the civilization of the race, the call was responded to most heartily, and on April 16, 1910, the Oklahoma State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs was organized with seven charter clubs and Mrs Jacobson of Oklahoma City was elected president At this first meeting the body endorsed the work of the Constitutional back over those few years we thank God that He has given us women with the intelligence, the courage, the en- I thusiasm and the zeal to render that unselfish service which it has re- quired to help us thus far accomplish our purpose and bring us to our present stardard, which has enabled us to wake up to our opportunities and to i throw ourselves with righteous ardor into our one great cause We have tried to puriml life, to strengthen character, to lift our people from the i mire of ignorance, prejudice and de- spondency, to draw them from the alleys and hovels, from the dens of iniquity and vice, to lif them into a higher atmosphere and to help them i gain a breathing space and an oppor- tunity to live Our women have gone out crying against sin and evil, pleading for reforms, teaching honesty, temperance, morality and economy to our people and asking only for the things which rightly belong to us from She has been married several times All of her children are dead The Black Dispatch is the official or- gan of the Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs Subscribe today 2 00 per year Address Box 6S, I Oklahoma City HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS Miss Belzora Malvern, Press, Muskogee Mrs Foster, Art, Oklahoma City Emma Gordon, Domestic Science, Oklahoma City Mrs Alyce Stewart, Music, Guthrie Ann Marquess, Education, Langston Mrs Jones, Mothers, Muskogee Miss Puella Lawson, Juvenile, Oklahoma City Mrs Nellie Green, Hygiene, Muskogee Mrs Maud Smith, Economics, Okmul- gee Mrs Julia Hawkins, Social Service, Oklahoma City Mrs Bythella Sensley Taylor, Religious Leona Jones, Chairman Ways and Means, Enid MISS INEZ BROCKWAY UC1 Corresponding Secretary Oklahoma those of the other race State Federation Colored Women's i Clubs board of the Douglas Memorial Home We also hold a sustaining membership in this home and pay twenty-five dollars annually towards its upkeep We became a sustained member of the National Association for the Ad- League, which at that time wa7 vancement of Colored People in 1916 deavoring to secure favorable legisla- nd Pay te do annual ly nt tion for our people in this state The treasury Our philanthropies include first annual meeting of this federation al glf ts t0 lir tralnllJf schools and was held in the city of Guthrie, Aug zes for contests in literature, mu- ust 14, 1911 Here we were favored S1C' art- and, economics with a most encouraging address by E7forts- Miss Elizabeth Carter of New Bed-L Individual clubs belonging to this ford, Mass who was at that time I ederatl0n estab ished ub hc president of the National Association libraries at o'ey Enid, McAlester and the well-known Excelsior of Guthrie The city federation of Oklahoma City has recently purchased property valued at forty-five hundred dollars and which is used as a community center This federatiqn also gives a community Christmas president of the National Association of Negro Women's Clubs At the second annual session, which convened in Muskogee, a committee was appointed to wait upon the governor of the state asking that a reformatory for incorrigible Negro youth be established This visit was followed by a petition to the legislature, which was favorably received when presented to that body and we were instructed to send in our bill Accordingly, in 1913 our legislative committee presented to the fourth legislative assembly a bill for the establishment of a state training school for incorrigible Negro boys This bill met the fate of hundreds of others, having failed to pass on the adjournment of the legislature At our third annual session of clubs held at McAlester, the delegates made a visit to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary There our hearts were made to ache by seeing young Negro boys confined with the most hardened men criminals We became more determined than ever to relieve this dreadful condition Mrs Jacobson was made chairman of the legislative council She was instructed to draw up a new bill and press it until passed Accordingly, a new campaign was put on and a new bill introduced in the fifth legislative assembly This bill after much revision was passed The appropriation finally made was fifteen thousand dollars This was the first real constructive work accomplished by our state federation This school is now considered one of the best of its kind in the United States It is well appointed and equipped and is adequate in size and arrangement to care for eighty boys The superintendent Mr Lilley, is a cul- Christian gentleman especially fitted for his work with the boys uunng the legislative session of 1917 we were successful in getting through KP for a hool for in- hnmi we located at Taft- Oklahoma We were also instrumental in preventing the consolidation of the 8t0py Hour- boys' school at McAlester with tha Some of our have established deaf, dumb and orphans' schoni tbVtory hour'where ch'ldren gather Taft 01 at under competent supervisors for an Gov Robertson Helps st ry telling and song One club has a day nursery and lunch It has been our great pleasure to ro tm schoo1 children We have secure through the endorsement nf a club which stes to the improvement Gov Robertson and the help of our uf th Negro Portion of the cemetery, loyal friends an appropriation of fiftv I beautify'ne by having grass, trees thousand dollars for building a tuber- Cowers Planted and furnishing cular sanitorium This hospital is lo- boards for unmarkefl graves at four Negro town of Bo- Supply Funds those who need It As'Vr aref for At one when county funds were ve are hPinint JL deration i scarce the club of Guthrie, bor and ihP Ji i the child la- had in charge a public kindergarten, laws U'p ulsory educational employing a teacher and paving all helD obtain a other expenses Another club in or- our fldlre der counteract the evil influence MRS BROCKWAY Second vice president, Oklahoma State Federation of Colored Womens' Clubs, Oklahoma City MRS NELLIE GREEN President Muskogee City Federa- oKuao tree tion head of Hygiene department, Ok- every year for the poor of the city, lahoma Federation of Colored Wom- distributes large quantities of food, en's clubs clothing and fuel and furnishes medical attention to many in need Mus kogee also has a social center which is doing much helpful work The federation has in charge a well Compensation We have found this work of uplift to be no trival vocation we have en- quipped library, which is now support- trlval vocation we have en- ed by the city terecl mto 11 reverently because we PROGRAM OF THE 12TH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE OKLAHOMA FEDERATION OF COLORED WOMEN'S CLUBS To Be Held at Ardmore, Okla Aug 30-31, 1982 Wednesday Morning Executive Board meeting, 8 30 to 9 30 All officers and heads of departments compose the board All applications for membership received at this time Opening Session 9 30 Devotional Exercises, Chaplain, Mrs Ada Young, Guthrie Welcome Address, Mis Fannie Watson, Ardmore Response, Mrs Lena Jones, Ehid Vocal solo, Mrs Prater, Ardmore Appointment of committees filing of credentials and payment of dues Introduction of visitors Club song by Federation Adjournment Wednesday Afternoon 1 30 Music, National Negro Hymn James Weldon Johnson Federation Minutes of morning session seating of delegation minutes of Executive Board of April 29 Report from Domestic Art Department, Mrs It Foster, Oklahoma City Music Report from Domestic Science department, Mrs Emma Gordan, Oklahoma City Piano duet, Messrs Jase and Smith, Ardmore Memorial exercises, led by Chaplain Adjournment Wednesday Evening 8 30 Music, City Orchestra Ardmore MRS JULIA HAWKINS Hind of the Social Service'depart- ment Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Oklahoma City WHAT WE WANT TO DO FOR THE FEDERATION The Black Dispatch is vary anxious to develop a page that will be of interest each week to the club women of the state We have placed Miss Cora Bowie of the Black Dispatch staff, in charge of this department We solicit short statements ojt the activity of all the Federated clubs each week We say short, advisedly, 'because we find that a great many persons do not seem to realize that they should limit their copy and give room for other news All such copy should be in the office not later than Tuesday of each week Write on only one side of the paper, writing the name of the club and the city where located at the top of the copy This invitation is extended only to clubs connected with the Oklahoma Federation Address your letters to iliss Cora Bowie, society editor, Black Dispatch, Box 68, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma are workers together with God, struments in His hands upon whom depends the destinies of our people We have learned that the only service which helps is the service which increases human efficiency and fits the person helped to better bear the burdens of life This part of our work has meant the giving of those things which no money can buy We have given the positives of our lives not our negatives, our strength, not our weakness, our hopes, not our fears The influence which the women of this federation have exerted will never perish and it therefore remains with us to further live up to our purpose, to lift higher our standard as we climb and as our own Mrs Booker Washington says, to make of our state a hustling ground whereone we may build better homes, establish better schools, help make a more efficient ministry, strengthen the manhood and womanhood of our race, teach our children to respect the aged, bring parents and children closer together teach the lesson of self-control, bring the moral and civic salvation of communities and save the race to itself MRS EMMA GORDON Head of the Domestic Science department, Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Oklahoma LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING National Negro Hymn Written By James Weldon Johnson 1 MRS EMMA BACKSTROM Treasurer, Oklahoma State Federation of Colored Womens' Clubs, Enid MISS DELAWARE ASHER Secretary Oklahoma State Federation Colored Women's Clubs of our finhnni io aer to counteract the evil influence leeiZtivP secure of the public dance and other que make our reeiRtritin i would tional forms of amusement, furnished and lust la ore ir weekly socials for the young people provision be nade whieh in 5 SOme A few cIubs are fur ish pub- with that sniHt i way lic Playgrounds and many are doing lent in Rom nnw 1 preva especially fine work in helping push I 6 rtions of our state the work of the Agricultural nob vfofence i in clubs The Oklahoma City Federa- are mine hear- tion at one'time furnished one hun- Jhop Wld We fare and health dred dollars for that work Our I are USlng aI1 available Mothers' Clubs are trying to secure a ml hf nsave 0Ur fr0m that more general reformation in the home slave traffic 8Co rge-the black of the masses Aur parent-teacher iramc ciubs are workinf, for the advance it hna hooH Bureau ment of the children and the schools C00per' President- Eu FORMERYSELARSEoSFAIADGE BE 118 have increased from an Mrs Hrockway 2nd vice presi W- partment 30 minutes Miss Luella Lawson, Oklahoma City Report of Muskogee Federation, Mrs Nellie Green Music, Orchestra, Ardmore Announcements adjournment Thursday Morning 9 30 Devotions, Chaplain Minutes of the Wednesday evening session Report of clubs Vocal solo, Miss Watrous, Ardmore Report of officers and remaining reports of heads of departments Piano solo, Carmine Knight, Ardmore Report of committees Music, National Negro Hymn Thursday Afternoon 1 30 Music, Song of Oklahoma Club Women Minutes of the morning session Round table Home Making, Coun- iy agents, led by Mrs Maude Smith i Sanders, Okmulgee Piano solo, Anna Mae McKinie Introduction of visitors Duet, Edna and McKinie Adjournment Thursday Evening 8 30 Music, Orchestra Minutes of the afternoon session Report of Oklahoma City Federation, Mrs Virginia Kimbro Treasurer's report, Mrs Emma Backstrom, Enid Lift Every MRCI A Voice and Sing James Weldon stnt nL mi Johnson Federation An Evening klah roa State With Negro Musicians and Compos-j Colored Womens Clubs tSi jjrs Ann Marquess, in charge Report of Resolution committee Pi- Minutes of afternoon session Vocal solo, Mrs Myrtle Allen, Ardmore President's annual address, Mrs Anna Cooper, Eufaula High School Girls' Sextett, Ardmore Juvenile de- T' God' where we met Thee, partment 30 minutes Miss Luella Les U1 hearts, drunk with the wine Lift every voice and sing 'Till earth and heaven ring Ring with the harmonies of liberty Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on 'till victory is won- 2 Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chast'ning rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed We have come over a way that with tears have been watered, We have come treading our path thru the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, 'til now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast 3 God of our silent tears, Go of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way Thou who hast by Thy might, led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray Lest our feet stray from the places our God, where we met Thee, MRS MAF 1E ALYUi I V7akT Head of the Music department, Oklahoma Federat'on of Cclored Women's Clubs, Guthrie of the world we forget Thee Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand, True to our God, true to our native land STATE OFFICERS OKLAHOMA KeP mn 1 STATE FEDERATION OF COLOR 80 SS 0,3 y8 U'Se tUrrie- ED WOMEN'S CLUBS Adjournment MRS LEONA JONES 'hairiuan of the Ways and Means Department, Enid PHYLLIS WHEATLEY CLUB Qlltwl' 7' yuus, 5 niiun we na increased from an vrt i itrorltwav eecoiiu sunaay in November, and Pro- enrollment of six clubs in 1910 to 47 i H0ni nw saiu iu oe ner usin oirmuay science ciuo iiih oammay auemoon test Day, Jan 1 active clubs and three city federations i y' anniversary, declared at the Los An- August 12 at the residence of Mrs National Affiliation at Dresent Three nr iri ntc i ss ue, are Asher, secretary, Okla- -eies county farm, where she is an Provo 1316 Sth After the laner, egieat, wuu nas jusi pu-stju The Phyllis Wheatley Domestic hat is said to be her 118th birthday Science club met Saturday afternoon National Affiliation at present Three presidents have serv Jre 6 a inf mber of the National ed us namely Mrs Jacobson Federation of Negro Womens clubs, Oklahoma City Mrs Horton two of whose presidents have been Guthrie and the present incumbent with us in our meetings We have Mrs A Cooper Eufaula Our een represented by delegates at the flower is the mistletoe our state motivational association, every meeting to, Lifting as we climb Tb 0f al tl0 and 0Qr tate Retrospection Has been represented on the trustee Someone has said that a woman's ma- kcics county larin, wnere sne is do i-rovo i ii in Aiier toe Ui ir inmate, that she attributed her long business session, the club was pleas- Okl hnma 3-V' cor sec'y life to hard work and plain food She ed to have Rev Provo present Mr was born a slave in South Carolina, lo give us some interesting remarks EnM Jnraa ackstrom treasurer Her sight and bearing are good She The club was served a nice repast by weighs 150 pounds She does con- the hostess, after which they adjourn- hn OsDorne, organizer, Okla- siderable sewing, she says, and does ed to meet Thursday evening at the a not care much for meat, but if she residence of Miss Lucy Carson, 711 te-Brewer chairman had her way her diet would consist Rhode Island, at 7 30 executive board, Muskogee iargcly of chjcken and iberries 7 MRS FosTtK Head of the Domestic Art department, Oklahoma Federation of Col- i red Women's Clubs, Oklahoma City THE PRISCiLLA CLUB Luther The Priscilla club met at the home of Mrs Bryant last Wednesday evening, August 10 at 6 o'clock he subject for discussion was, Canned fruit and vegetable hints Several new ideas were exchanged The house was beautifully decorated with pink and white crepe paper fan heart shaped, while miniature fans were given as souvenirs Pink ice cream with tiny white wafers were served The meeting adjourned after having two hours of real pleasure The next meeting will he at the home of Mrs A Cox September 6 THE RIGHT THING TO DO The really progressive clubs of the state prepare their yearly program in year book form and supplv each of the members with them Such an arrangement gives direction to the club eftort and si mulates the work in a local way The whole community is constantly reminded of your construc ve effort The Black Dispatch Publishing Co will he very glad to fur nish samples of this class of Prh ing and can give any dub a nice, neat job on a few days' notice and at very reasonable prices Write today for prices Box 68 Oklahoma City EDITOR'S UNCLE WILL MAKE HOME IN OKLAHOMA Mr William Taylor, brother of Mrs A Dunjee arrived in Okla Sunday He will Mshome with his sister from now on fr i vpN asei1 wlth Oklahoma -Mr Taylor has lived in Pittsburgh for about thirty-five years Mr Tav lor is an uncle of the di nr Black Dispatch of the.