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One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

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The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

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The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

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Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

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A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

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A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.

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At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

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But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: April 17th, 1870

Died: July 12th, 1946

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