Program for Bryn Mawr College One-day Conference on The Economic Status of Negroes, April 25, 1931

Program for Bryn Mawr College One-day Conference on The Economic Status of Negroes, April 25, 1931

Bryn Mawr College; Liberal Club; 1931 Conference on The Economic Status of Negroes

Program outlining the events of the Bryn Mawr Liberal Club conference "on The Economic Status of Negroes," featuring speakers Walter White, Alain Locke, Ira Reid, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Philip Randolph, J. B. Mathews, and W. E. B. Du Bois; providing instructions for registration and directions; and naming members of the Conference Committee.

Bryn Mawr College

University of Massachusetts Amherst Special Collections and University Archives

Bryn Mawr College

1931-04-25

Grant, Annamae V.

This item has been edited from its original form for clarity by the '24 '31 Students Study Race team.

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Bryn Mawr, PA
1931

[page one]

Student

one-day

Conference

on

The Economic Status

of Negroes

 

Music Room

Goodhart Hall

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr, Pa,

 

April 25, 1931

 

[page 2]

PROGRAMME

 

MORNING SESSION, 10.00 – 12:30

Economic Conditions of the Negro in America

 

WALTER WHITE

Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of colored people.

 

ALAIN LOCKE

of the Department of Philosophy of Howard University.

 

IRA REID

Director of the Research Department of the National Urban League.

 

AFTERNOON SESSION, 2.00 – 4.30

The Negro and Labor.

 

ALICE DUNBAR NELSON

of the Interracial Committee of the Society of Friends.

 

PHILIP RANDOPLH

of the Brotherhood of Pullman Car Porters.

 

EVENING SESSION, 8.00 – 10.00

The Future of the American Negro.

 
J. B. Mathews [sic]

Secretary of Fellowship of Reconciliation.


E. B. DuBois [sic]

Editor of Crisis.

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Registrations should be sent as soon as possible to Elizabeth Gutman, Pembroke West. A fee of one dollar will be charged. Delegates arriving in Philadelphia can take the Paoli Local at Broad Street Station for Bryn Mawr.

Conference Committee

• A. V. Grant, Chairman
• F. Robinson
• V. Butterworth
• G. Rhoads
• M. Osterhout
• W. McCully
• E. Cooke

Publicity

• E. C. Morrison
• R. Hatfield
• D. Perkins

Entertainment

• E. Gutman
• E. Kindleberger

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