Program for 1921
1. Anti-Lynching legislation by Congress.
2. Abolition of Segregation in the Departments at Washington.
3. Enfranchisement of the Negro in the South or reduction of southern representation, if necessary.
4. Restoration of Haitian Independence and Reparation, as far as possible for wrongs committed there by the American administration, through Congressional investigation of both military and civil acts of the American occupation.
5. Presentation to the New President of a mammoth petition of say, 100,000 bona fide signers, collected by the various branches, requesting the pardon of the soldiers of the 24th Infantry imprisoned at Leavenworth on the charge of rioting at Houston, Texas.
6. The Abolition of Jim Crow Cars in interstate traffic.
7. Treatment of Colored Men in the Army and Navy; (a) In the Army, admission to artillery units, from which they are now excluded, promotion in the medical and other corps, and the elimination of other forms of discrimination; (b) In the Navy obtaining ratings as non-commissioned officers once more, instead of their present enlistment only as mess-boys, that is, as servants.
8. Appointment of a National Inter-Racial Commission to make an earnest study of race conditions and race relations in the United States.
9. Appointment of Colored Assistant Secretaries in the Departments of Labor and Agriculture which would give the Negro official representation in the two phases of national life where he needs most and suffers most.
10. Continuance of the Fight in the Arkansas Cases.
11. The Successful Holding of the Second Pan-African Congress that the colored peoples of the world may gain a mutual understanding of their common problems.
12. The Defeat by Every Legitimate Means of the Nefarious Ku Klux Klan, both South and North.