. Crisis. uld befree himself must strike the blow? You must demand your rights. Younmst strike for your rights. You must insistor you will be stripped and rendered power-less.—St. Louis Advance. Jim Crow laws are for the purpose ofherding Negroes together in any and everypublic place and conveyance; and in certainresidential localities. But here is a thing which seems so weakand childish in the Negro in all segregatedlocalities: He is compelled by law to livewithin certain restricted limits; but whenyou pass through these Jim Crow sectionsinhabited by NegToes, in any Southern townor city, you
. Crisis. uld befree himself must strike the blow? You must demand your rights. Younmst strike for your rights. You must insistor you will be stripped and rendered power-less.—St. Louis Advance. Jim Crow laws are for the purpose ofherding Negroes together in any and everypublic place and conveyance; and in certainresidential localities. But here is a thing which seems so weakand childish in the Negro in all segregatedlocalities: He is compelled by law to livewithin certain restricted limits; but whenyou pass through these Jim Crow sectionsinhabited by NegToes, in any Southern townor city, you will find upon nearly everycorner a white man or a white woman keep-ing some sort of store, or scattered thicklythroughout the entire Negro residentialsection. Why do we continue to support thesewhite stores in these segregated districts?Since we are forced by law, whether legal orillegal, to live herded together, why do we stillenrich the very folks who pen us up likecattle in a pen?—St. Lukes EDITORIAL
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