NOT ON THE PROGRAMME.
COLOUR DISCRIMINATION. NEGROES PROTEST. RV CABLE—PRESS -ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. WASHINGTON, May 6. The delegates attending the quinquennial convention of the International Council of Women came face to face with a typically American problem while assembled to hear a programme of American music. The programme was designed to show the development of American music, and included negro spirituals of ‘ the 1860 period and modern compositions. The negroes, however, refused to sing because members of their race were not included among the delegates to the convention, but had been segregated l in the audience. When a representative of the negroes announced this decision because of discrimination against their race, all the negroes left the auditorium.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 May 1925, Page 5
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115NOT ON THE PROGRAMME. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 May 1925, Page 5
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