ate.
The future of the world is wrapped up in the lives of its youth. As
these unfold, the pages of history will tell the story of deeds noble
and base. Characters resplendent with jewels and ornaments of virtue
will be held up for the admiration of the world and the emulation of
generations not yet born. Others, thoughtlessly or wilfully ignoring the
plain path of duty, dwarfed, blighted, rejected of God and man, will be
the sign-posts marking the road to ruin.

OATH OF AFRO-AMERICAN YOUTH

KELLY MILLER

I will never bring disgrace upon my race by any unworthy deed or
dishonorable act. I will live a clean, decent, manly life; and will ever
respect and defend the virtue and honor of womanhood; I will uphold and
obey the just laws of my country and of the community in which I live,
and will encourage others to do likewise; I will not allow prejudice,
injustice, insult or outrage to cower my spirit or sour my soul; but
will ever preserve the inner freedom of heart and conscience; I will not
allow myself to be overcome of evil, but will strive to overcome evil
with good; I will endeavor to develop and exert the best powers within
me for my own personal improvement, and will strive unceasingly to
quicken the sense of racial duty and responsibility; I will in all these
ways aim to uplift my race so that, to everyone bound to it by ties of
blood, it shall become a bond of ennoblement and not a byword of
reproach.

THE END

NOTES

BIRD, AUGUSTA--Born in Tennessee. On the clerical force of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Contributor to the
Brownies Book.

BOND, SCOTT--Born in slavery in Mississippi. Now a wealthy farmer in
Madison, Arkansas.

BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM BEAUMONT STANLEY (1878-)--Author and critic; born
in Boston. Editor of "Anthology of Magazine Verse," published annually,
"The Book of Georgian Verse," "The Book of Restoration Verse,"
contributor of literary criticisms to the Boston Transcript and
magazines.

BRAWLEY, BENJAMIN GRIFFITH (1882-)--Born at Columbia, S.C. A.B., Atlanta
Baptist College, 1901; A.B., University of Chicago, 1906; A.M., Harvard,
1908. Member American Historical Association, American Geographical
Society; author, "Negro in Literature and Art," "Short History of
American Negro" and booklets of verse. Dean of Morehouse College,
Atlanta, Ga.

BROWN, WILLIAM WELLS (1816-?)--Born in slavery in Kentucky. Escaped in
youth to the Nort