Swarthmore Conference, 1933

W.E.B. DuBois and Professor Ulrich B. Phillips once met? That is atonishing to me. You will recall Ulrich Phillips wrote several volumes on slavery, which  were the favorable to slaves, to say the least.

Here is The Crisis, September 1933: Swarthmore Conference An Institute on Race Relations held at Swarthmore College under the auspices of the Committee of Race Relations of the Society of Friends, brought together during July, leaders and the foremost thinkers of both races in America. The conference which met to consider the social factors involved in the Negro-white relations in the United States, was attended by Dr. Will W. Alexander of Atlanta, president of Dillard University; Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of the Crisis; Professor Ulrich B. Phillips of Yale University; Professor Melville Herskovits of Northwestern University; Donald Young of the Social Science Research Council, James Weldon Johnson, Broadus Mitchel and Mabel Carney.