. Crisis. SOME BALTIMORE THE PROTEST. The National Association forthe Advancement of ColoredPeople has sent a protest to PresidentWilson on Federal race discrimination whichhas received Avide publicity. Some of the facts which called out thisprotest are set forth in La FoUettes: There have been vari-ous rumors afloat inWashington for some timeas to the segregation ofemployees in the govern-ment service. A few daysago Senator Clapp intro-duced a resolution askingfor the facts as to segre-gation of the races in thePostoflfice Department. Some weeks ago I re-ceived a letter from MissNan

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. Crisis. SOME BALTIMORE THE PROTEST. The National Association forthe Advancement of ColoredPeople has sent a protest to PresidentWilson on Federal race discrimination whichhas received Avide publicity. Some of the facts which called out thisprotest are set forth in La FoUettes: There have been vari-ous rumors afloat inWashington for some timeas to the segregation ofemployees in the govern-ment service. A few daysago Senator Clapp intro-duced a resolution askingfor the facts as to segre-gation of the races in thePostoflfice Department. Some weeks ago I re-ceived a letter from MissNannie Burroughs, presi-dent of the National Train-ing School for Women andGirls—owned and oper-ated by the womans con-vention, auxiliary to na-tional Baptist convention. —pleading for justice tothe colored people andprotesting against thesegregation being insti-tuted in the Bureau ofEngraving and Printing. I wrote the Secretaryof the Treasury for thefacts. Omitting the for-maJities of the corre-spondence, I give thememorandum to

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