I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense…

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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a...

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a...

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare...

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare...

The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories...

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories...

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and...

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and...

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop...

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop...

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had...

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had...

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so...

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so...

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders...

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders...

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the...

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the...

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women...

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women...

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same...

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same...

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and...

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and...

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its...

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its...

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it...

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it...

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if...

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if...

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights...

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights...

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the...

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the...