On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
Furthermore, to no class is the indiscriminate endorsement of the recent course of the South toward Negroes more nauseating than to the best thought of the South.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois observes that even within the South, thoughtful individuals are repulsed by the region's treatment of Black people.
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