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In these circumstances the blacks were the helpless victims of the misrule of their own leaders and of the organized lawlessness of the Southern whites.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “In these circumstances the blacks were the helpless victims of the misrule of their own leaders and of the organized…”
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Grimké points out that African Americans were victims of both their own leaders' misrule and the lawlessness of Southern whites.
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