SESSION 1: Protection of the American Citizen | Mob-violence and Anarchy, North and South |
Session Topic
Protection of American Citizens |
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Pamphlet Excerpt from "The Black Laws" by Bishop B. W. Arnett Real Audio Format | .WAV format | Entire Pamphlet Audio Transcription: Members [of the Ohio House of Representatives] will be astonished when I tell them that I have traveled in this free country for twenty hours without anything to eat; not because I had no money to pay for it, but because I was colored. Other passengers of a lighter hue had breakfast, dinner and supper. In traveling we are thrown in "jim crow" cars, denied the privilege of buying a berth in the sleeping coach. This monster caste stands at the doors of the theatres and skating rinks, locks the doors of the pews in our fashionable churches, closes the mouths of some of the ministers in their pulpits which prevents the man of color from breaking the bread of life to his fellowmen. |
SESSIONS: Segregation and Violence | Solving the Race Problem | Contributions to the Nation |