The mob burns Negroes and their property almost everywhere in the South with absolute impunity.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “The mob burns Negroes and their property almost everywhere in the South with absolute impunity.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké points out the rampant violence against Black individuals and their property in the Southern United States.
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And this one thing needful, I believe, the Progressive Party brings to the solution of the problem, and that it formed the underlying motive and the statesmanlike purpose of the action at Chicago last August of Theodore Roosevelt.
It reaches down to the springs of fundamental social and political changes at the South in relation to its race question, and sets in motion the healing waters of its pool of Bethesda, which will in time heal it of its sickness and cleanse…
And politics is business, is the big business is it not, or ought it not to be the big business of all self governing peoples, who would maintain justice and freedom for themselves and transmit them unimpaired to their posterity?
That colored men with the ballot should be rated in terms of the political game higher than other colored men who have it not, violates no rule of business ethics.