Fulton County GaArchives News.....Negroes to Discuss Recent Crime Wave September 5, 1915
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The Atlanta Constitution September 5, 1915
Ten thousand negroes will celebrate Labor day Monday on the campus of Morris 
Brown university.  Captain Jackson McHenry is manager of the day's program.  
Several baseball games will be played in addition to other amusements.  The 
white people are urged to let their servants off on that day.

A meeting will be held on the campus at 3 o'clock to discuss the wave of crime 
among the colored people, and how to check it.  Among the speakers will be 
Bishop J. S. Flipper, President W. A. Fountain, Revs. F. R. Sims, C. M. Tanner, 
C. A. Ailer, Horace Williams, E. H. Oliver, B. G. Dawson, J. A. Hadley, Colonel 
H. L. Johnson, M. J. Davis, J. W. Dawson, Anias Brown and J. M. Robinson and 
others.

B. R. Holmes, president of the Holmes institute, will be master of ceremonies.

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