Eras: 1917–1929

Election of 1912
1917–1929

The Judiciary and Progress Address at Toledo, Ohio

SOURCE:  “The Judiciary and Progress : Address of President Taft, Toledo, Ohio, Friday Evening, March 8, 1912.” Washington, D.C.:  G.O.P., 1912, available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library:  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044053409975&view=1up&seq=3&skin=2021

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Race and Civil Rights
1917–1929

My View of Segregation Laws

Source: Booker T. Washington, “My View of Segregation Laws,” New Republic 5, no. 57 (December 4, 1915), 113–114; available at https://newrepublic.com/article/103513/ my-view-segregation-laws. In all of my experience I have never

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Race and Civil Rights
1917–1929

An Address to the Country

Source: “The Second Annual Meeting of the Niagara Movement,” Broad Ax 11, no. 44 (August 25, 1906), 1; available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080272 191&view=1up&seq=692. The men of the Niagara movement coming from

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Race and Civil Rights
1917–1929

The Souls of Black Folk

Source: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1903), 3–6, 9–12, 42–44, 50–53, 55–56, 57; available at https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk/ZdV1AAAAMAAJ?hl=en . . .After the Egyptian

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1917–1929

Final Report on Negro Subversion

Source: RG165, Records of the War Department, General Staff, Military Intelligence Division, File 10218-361-1, pages 1–3, 12–15. New York, August 6th 1919 CONFIDENTIAL. From:   Major W. N. Loving, P. C.

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1917–1929

Returning Soldiers

Source: W.E.B. DuBois, “Returning Soldiers,” The Crisis, XVIII (May, 1919), p. 13. We are returning from war! The Crisis and tens of thousands of black men were drafted into a great struggle. For

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1917–1929

Open Letters to Woodrow Wilson

Source: Editorial: “An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (March 1913): 236–37; Editorial: “Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (September 1913): 232–36, available online at the Hathi

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1917–1929

Lynch Law in America

Source: The Arena 23 (January 1900), 15-24. OUR country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable

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