The South, as we have seen, has succeeded most thoroughly in depriving the Negro in its midst of any voice in its governments and it has shut him out of state offices, and now thanks to President Taft, has at last succeeded in depriving him of holding federal office in its midst likewise.
Grimké describes the systematic exclusion of African Americans from political offices in the South, exacerbated by presidential policies.
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I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.
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