The Interstate Commerce Commission knows this and knows it well, yet it makes no determined and persistent attempt to compel railroads to give to their colored passengers accommodations equal to those which they furnish their white ones.
Grimké criticizes the lack of action by the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce equal treatment for African Americans.
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Love was in their mouths and love was in their hearts.
Our garb should be sack-cloth--our heads bowed in the dust--our supplications for the pardon and assistance of Heaven.
It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.
It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.