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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Box Civil Rights Country Freedom Give Law Resented South Vballot
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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Assault Been Country Defense Gum Only Self Time Used
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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Appetite Feed Grow One
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Brutalized Degree Foundation Government Inhabitantm Very Law Order Own Realize South
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
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Afternoon Back Big Came Every Friday Home Mile Mothing Mule
The appeal to the white man’s pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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All Appeal Been Conscience Effectual Ever Made Man Pocket White
Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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Commit Murder Report Write
The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.
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Black Country Every Home Honor Lessons People Person Pinder Place Protection Refuse Teacher Well
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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Although Barbarity Daughter During Effort For Increase Last Lynching Number Philanthropic Single Steadily Twenty Year
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
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Always Find Injustice Know Remedy Wrong
The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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Country Dsaapered Emergency Exist Longer Lynch West
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.
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Held Law Lynch Orderly Place Process Spread Sway Territories Took Until West
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless,
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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