The text below was written in the early 1900s:

be it resolved, that the negro people of the world, through their chosen representatives in convention assembled in liberty hall, in the city of new york and united states of america, from august 1 to august 31, in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty, protest against the wrongs and injustices they are suffering at the hands of their white brethren, and state what they deem their fair and just rights, as well as the treatment they propose to demand of all men in the future.