In this same Shreveport there were five colored men lynched in ten days and eight in a year, and one white woman testified at an investigation conducted by the attorney general's office that she rode in an automobile crowded with men eighteen miles to see an old colored man burned at the stake!
Grimké provides a shocking account of multiple lynchings in Shreveport, illustrating the rampant violence against black individuals.
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I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.
I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.
I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.
This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.