PARIS: After being delayed some days in England, the United States’ delegation to the International Congress of Women arrived yesterday [Nov 27] at Paris. Mrs. Eleanor Gimble is the leader of the delegation consisting of eight members of whom three are Negro women leaders.

Mrs. Florence March, better known in her own right as an actress Florence Eldridge, wife of the well-known actor Frederick March, who is a member of the United States’ delegation, told the Congress that there were only two ways in the world today for women — no middle road. They had either to choose to be classed with the forces of reaction or the forces of progress.

Thelma Dale, representing the National Negro Congress, another member of the U.S. delegation said that there were still Fascist forces existing in the United States and that people had to fight them as well as fight for liberty and equality of Negroes and all other minorities. …

“15,000,000 Negroes have no social, political or economic rights” [she said], while Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, another Negro woman leader told the French people, “Twice we have set out black boys to fight beside your sons, but it is only in France that they have tasted equality for the first time”.

Published in Dawn, November 30th, 2020