An African Victorian Feminist by Adelaide M Cromwell

Author:Adelaide M Cromwell [Cromwell, Adelaide M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781317792116
Google: WTLKAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04T03:36:58+00:00

Mrs. Casely Hayford

217 West 139 Street

New York City, N.Y.

Dear Mrs. Hayford,

I am sending you enclosed letters of introduction which I promised to write for you when you were in the office this morning. I sincerely trust that they may be of assistance to you in placing your cause before the colored people of New York City. And I hope you will succeed in interesting a number of them in the very laudable work which you and Miss Easmon are doing in Serrie [sic] Leone.

If we can be of any further assistance to you, please do not hesitate to call upon us.

Very truly yours,

Assistant Secretary

The following was the letter sent to Rev. W. Brooks, Rev. W.P. Hays, Rev. A. Clayton Powell, Rev. W. Spencer Carpenter, Rev. Henry H. Proctor, Mrs. A.W. Hunton, Rev. F.A. Cullen, Rev. Everard W. Daniel, and Rev. W.W. Brown:

This letter will introduce to you Mrs. Casely Hayford and Miss Easmon of Gloucester House, Freetown in Africa who are interested in the establishment of a school for girls in Sierra [sic] Leone.

These ladies bring with them excellent credentials which they will show you. We will appreciate greatly any assistance which you may give to them in presenting the cause which they represent to the colored people of New York City.

The following day Walter White again wrote a brief note to Mrs. Casely Hayford sending additional letters and saying mail had come to the Crisis for her which he was forwarding under separate cover. The N.A.A.C.P. introductory letter was now being sent also to Mr. Fred Moore, Editor, New York Age; Mr. William A. White, Editor, Chicago Defender; Mr. J.H. Anderson, Editor, Amsterdam News; Mr. George W. Harris, Editor New York News; and Mr. William S. McKinney, Editor, Brooklyn and Long Island Informer.

Mrs. Casely Hayford was again in the Crisis office on 3 September 1920 and as a result Mr. White wrote the same form letter to Rev. Shelton Bishop, Mr. John T. Clark, Mrs. William Fox, and Mrs. Daisy Lampkin, all of Pittsburgh, and Miss. Nannie Burroughs of the National Training School at Lincoln Heights, Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Mary E. Cable, Miss Ella M. Clay, Mr. A.T. Long, Mr. F.E. DeFrantz, and Dr. C.R. Atkins, all of Indianapolis.

By May 1921, Mrs. Casely Hayford is once more in touch with the N.A.A.C.P. offices:24

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