. Crisis. THE LATE WILLIS ALBERT JONES. MEN OF THE MONTH 73 -was the late Willis Albert Jones, who hadrounded out nearly a century when he diedat Athens, Ga., March 3. He was born atMilledgeville, Ga., February 28, 1814. m A GOOD MIXER. *rT»HERE is no reason why a black man orA a yellow man or a citizen of any othercolor should be debarred from holding aseat on the school board. Nor can it bedenied that it is only fair that the Negro AN JAMES F. BOURNE. should have some representation on the schoolboard, since a large number of Negroteachers and Negro children are subject tothe loca
. Crisis. THE LATE WILLIS ALBERT JONES. MEN OF THE MONTH 73 -was the late Willis Albert Jones, who hadrounded out nearly a century when he diedat Athens, Ga., March 3. He was born atMilledgeville, Ga., February 28, 1814. m A GOOD MIXER. *rT»HERE is no reason why a black man orA a yellow man or a citizen of any othercolor should be debarred from holding aseat on the school board. Nor can it bedenied that it is only fair that the Negro AN JAMES F. BOURNE. should have some representation on the schoolboard, since a large number of Negroteachers and Negro children are subject tothe local school systemi Mr. James _ F. Bourne is the Negroreferred to in the above editorial opinionfrom the Atlantic City Gazette. Mr. Bourneis a successful druggist, a taxpayer and auseful citizen, but the school board ofAtlantic City refused to honor his appoint-ment by M^or Baeharach last July. Theyappealed, w^hout success, to the State boardof education and they exhausted every Latinphrase in the legal vocabulary in the effortto get the courts to prevent a colored manfrom sitting with them. They have Supreme Court of the State has givenMr. Bourne his seat and the costs. WHEN a colored man finds that hisjob is worth his life in the South heusually leaves the job and takes his lifenorthward. As a rule, the farther North hegets his life is nominally more secure, butas to a job, without which he can have nolife, he cannot even have a
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