 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Treaty of Versailles - 1919 - 1314 pages
...conditions, not only in Africa but in every country and everywhere, and hence it is their desire that wherever persons of African descent are civilized...and social equality according to ability and desert. We desire that this great league of nations, this covenant, may becure protection of life and property... | |
 | Emmett Jay Scott - African-American soldiers - 1919 - 610 pages
...culpable. The Congress did make some impression in Paris and passed the following significant resolutions : "Wherever persons of African descent are civilized...and social equality according to ability and desert. "Whenever it is proven that African natives are not receiving just treatment at the hands of any State... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations - 1919 - 1350 pages
...conditions, not only in Africa but in every country and everywhere, and hence it is their desire that wherever persons of African descent are civilized...and social equality according to ability and desert. We desire that this great league of nations, this covenant, may secure protection of life and property... | |
 | 1919 - 1140 pages
...conditions, not only in Africa but in every country and everywhere, and hence it is their desire that wherever persons of African descent are civilized...and social equality according to ability and desert. We desire that this great league of nations, this covenant, may secure protection of life and property... | |
 | Mary White Ovington - African Americans - 1927 - 262 pages
...the resolutions that were given to the press. They contained two important demands. First, whenever persons of African descent are civilized and able...accorded the same rights as their fellow citizens. And second, whenever it is proven that African natives are not receiving just treatment at the hands... | |
 | Mark Ellis - History - 2001 - 349 pages
...religion. The most important resolution, so far as black Americans were concerned, was that Where ever persons of African descent are civilized and able...social equality according to ability and desert." While in Paris, Du Bois met Woodrow Wilson's adviser, Col. Edward M. House, and the American colonial... | |
 | Zhang Juguo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 212 pages
...persons of African descent should be accorded the same rights as their fellow citizens. They should not be denied on account of race or color a voice...and social equality according to ability and desert. i. The natives should be guaranteed greater security of life and property. The native workers should... | |
 | Raymond Wolters - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 588 pages
...the prerogatives of an international Talented Tenth. An official resolution asserted that "Whenever persons of African descent are civilized and able...denied on account of race or color a voice in their own Government."104 The PanAfrican Congress, in short, brought together educated representatives of the... | |
 | Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gene Andrew Jarrett - History - 2007 - 614 pages
...approved, despite the fact that these resolutions had two paragraphs of tremendous significance to us: Wherever persons of African descent are civilized...and social equality according to ability and desert. Whenever it is proven that African natives are not receiving just treatment at the hands of any State... | |
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Africa but in every country and everywhere, and hence it is their desire that wherever persons of African descent are civilized and able to meet the tests of surrounding culture, they shall be accorded the same rights as their fellow citizens ; they shall... 