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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: July 16th, 1862

Died: March 25th, 1931

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