William Monroe Trotter testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington.

At the earing on the proposed League of Nations treaty. Trotter declares, “But Mr. Chairman, the oppression of colored Americans by their fellow white Americans is getting to the point where unless the governmental authorities, State and National, take hold of the situation and put their feet down firmly against this continuance, you nor I nor none of us can be assured that our own dear land shall be the land of peace, shall be without violence, shall be without insurrection, and shall be without war.”