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Show DISCRIMINATION AGAINST NEGRO Chicago, Jan. 1 2 Discrimination against the nqgro, mob violence that 'flaunted Itself with public approval in tho face of law," and Indifferenro to ihe loss auotained by the nation In under-dovelopment of ita human resources, were denounced at a mass meeting here today under tho auspices aus-pices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Oswald Garrison, Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post, and president of the association, wag tho principal speaker. In his appeal for opportunity for the negro he cited tho latter's economic value, his moral right to demand a chance, and pointed point-ed out a danger in retrogression of the colored race. Economically he rated the colored people as high as tho accumulators in fifty years of 500,000 homos, 250,-000 250,-000 farms worth $200,000,000 and a ; total of $600,000,000 worth of property. prop-erty. Ho characterized the negro as a national resource that required only encouragement, equality and a chance. |