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In the Lynchburg hotels they were paid twenty dollars a month—five dollars more than they received for similar services in Richmond.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “In the Lynchburg hotels they were paid twenty dollars a month—five dollars more than they received for similar services…”
Editor's note · Context
Reid notes that African Americans in Lynchburg were earning more than their counterparts in Richmond.
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