Archibald Henry Grimké: “Is it not because he is the ballotless victim in those states of one-party governments in which he is denied a voice?”

I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.

This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description of his condition as an agricultural laborer in many of the Southern states.

On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.

At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.