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PHOENIX TRIBUNE
ESTABLISHED DST 1918
PUBLISHED BY
The Tribune Publishing Co.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
A. R. SMITH, Managing Editor
Advertising Rates on Application
Subscription, per year $2.50
17 N. 2nd St. Phone 7392
TS iifr^
THE DAY WE CELEBRATE
Emancipation day, celebrated
in June in this state and in
some of the Southern states, is
an occasion for merrymaking
and rejoicing by the colored
people. The Emancipation Proc
lamation issued by Abraham
Lincoln, and which went into
effect January Ist, 1863, grant
ed freedom to more than four
million slaves in this country.
The fact that this Proclama
tion had been issued was with
held from many of the states
until June 19th, hence the cele
bration of that date by the de
scendants of the former slaves
of those states.
It is an occasion when the
colored people generally, pause
for a moment, and take a retro
spective view of the past. The
progress and achievement of the
race are noted, and inspiration
and encouragement given the'
youth of this group to ascend
to higher heights. History does
not record similar progress made
by any other race of people in
such a short period of time.
Sixty-five years ago, over nine
ty per cent of the colored people
in this country were illiterate,
and today this illiteracy has
been reduced to ten per cent.
Since Emancipation, the race
has produced doctors, lawyers,
merchants, teachers, artists,
bankers, and other business and
professional men and women
woh can measure arms with the
white man —and the end is not
yet. The black race has acquir
ed over $2,000,000,000 worth of
property and taken its place
among the progressive peoples
of the world. The great prog
ress shown by this group of peo
ple has been made in the face
of many obstacles. They are a
people who laugh at barriers,
and succeed, not because of them
but in spite of them. Who can
predict what one hundred years
PHOENIX TRIBUNE—ALWAYS IMPROVING
will show in the progress and
achievement of such a people?
May they continue on their up
ward way with “EXCELSIOR ’
as their motto and guide.
LINCOLN AND ROSENWALD
The Negro people have their
Emancipation Day to honor Lin
coln. Thus they remember the
one who set them free; now
they have established another
holiday to honor the one who
more than any other in the land
has extended to them the hands
of good will and brotherhood.
They call it Rosenwald Day
after Julius Rosenwald of Chi
cago.
If Lincoln broke the chains
that bound the Negro, Julius
Rosenwald has more than any
ohter individual in the land been
instrumental in lifting the pros
trate Negro to his feet. In twen
ty-five cities he has laid the
'Q FREEDOM
—lt surely is a wonderful thing. It took years
to free one another from slavery—some men
were even assassinated to free a certain group
not so very long ago, and for which freedom we
are thankful today.
We might say that the deeds of such a coun
tryman are what has preserved the Nation’s hap
piness and done away with hatred. So folks, let’s
keep up the good work and enjoy the beauties in
this Garden of Eden, for as you know, we are
only here for a short time. We thank you.
REIS, The Old Boy Himself
AT THE BIGGEST LITTLE STORE IN TOWN
First Avenue at Monroe
Greetings and Best Wishes to the Colored
Citizens of Arizona.
C. O. CASE
Superintendent of Public Instruction
foundations of Negro Y.M.C.A.’s
by gifts of $25,000 each. Thru
out the south there are hun
dreds of Rosenwald Schools for
Negro children, established thru
the munificence of Julius Ros
enwald.
Mindful of these things, the
Negro department of the na
tional Y.M.C.A. has proclaimed
Rosenwald Day to be observed
every year.
Thus the Negro people set
before the eyes of prejudice the
grandeur of one whose gener
osity knows no distinctions of
race or religion. The difference
between Negroes and other peo
ple is that other people have
been out of slavery longer. It
it some 3,000 years since the
Jews escaped from Pharaoh,
and it is only a handful of cen
turies since Nordics were bound
in feudal serfdom. B’Nai
B’rith Magazine.
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