. Crisis. ASSEMBLYMAN B. R. JACKSON. REV. E. W. The Supreme Court of the ClVlL RIGHTS. ^/^^^ ^t^*^^ ^^\ ^y }- daring unconstitutional theSumner Civil Rights Act, decreed thathenceforward a colored woman travelingfrom Norfolk to Boston must either starveor eat from the soiled linen used by whitepeople. A NegTo going from Charlestonto NeAv York, or vice versa, now has nohope of escaping the hideous filth of thethird-class accommodations on the steam-ers, for he has no civil rights on the highseas nor on land or waters within the juris-diction of the United States. The colored press is
. Crisis. ASSEMBLYMAN B. R. JACKSON. REV. E. W. The Supreme Court of the ClVlL RIGHTS. ^/^^^ ^t^*^^ ^^\ ^y }- daring unconstitutional theSumner Civil Rights Act, decreed thathenceforward a colored woman travelingfrom Norfolk to Boston must either starveor eat from the soiled linen used by whitepeople. A NegTo going from Charlestonto NeAv York, or vice versa, now has nohope of escaping the hideous filth of thethird-class accommodations on the steam-ers, for he has no civil rights on the highseas nor on land or waters within the juris-diction of the United States. The colored press is inclined to regardwith a rather cynical philosophy the unani-mous verdict of the highest tribunal in theland. Says the St. Paul Appeal: As the Supreme Court has never butonce decided anything in favor of the10,000,000 Afro-Americans of this countryits action Monday is not surprising. Others, like the McDowell (W. Va.)Times, take it more seriously: The Supreme Court has declared uncon-stitutional the civil-rights law of 1875 andturned the Negroes of the
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