A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen, Editors of The Messenger, leading organ of negro opinion, in a letter addressed to Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, offer to collect the works of representative negre authors for the Hebrew Library in Palestine, to the end that a greater bond of friendship and understanding be promoted between the Jewish and Negro peoples of the world.
The letter, in part, follows:
“To the end of rendering available to the Jewish thinkers the works of Negro scholars, I want to suggest and request that a section of the Library be set aside for Negro literature by Negro writers, so that Negro life and culture by Negro authors may be presented authoritatively to the Jewish world.
“Now, in order that the collection of these works may not constitute a burden on you, permit me to offer my services in assembling the most notable works and presenting them as a gift to the library through the medium of The Messenger from the Negro Race. It may be considered as a gift from the race, since I shall solicit the works from individual Negroes and Negro institutions.”
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