Word: negro
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First, the statement that within approximately six weeks there had occurred twenty-eight attacks on white women by negroes, with the resulting conviction and sentence of one negro. As I understand the write, this an was sentenced to serve only six months in jail, although it was stated that he was identified by three women, presumably victims of his attacks. There was absolutely lacking any proof of these twenty-eight alleged attacks--the facts are merely alleged, and no alleged fact without supporting evidence can or does stand before the law. If it was impossible to secure evidence or apprehend...
Second, during the Omaha riots another negro was accused of an attack on a white woman and confined by the military authorities. The case was printed in scare-crow headlines in all our newspaper. In a later edition of the Boston Herald, in small type, at the fag-end of a long article on the riots, the statement was made that the accused had been released-nothing else. Can any fair-minded American believe that this is honest and fair dealing? Why was the world not told in as bold type and as plainly as the accusation was made that...
Third, admitting that William Brown, the negro lynched, was guilty, and even deserved the death penalty the citizens of Omaha have presumably elected city, officials whose business it is to administer justice. The moment that a single citizen "took the matter into his own hands" he transgressed the law of the state and of the nation, and, in killing Brown committed murder. Furthermore, he introduced into Omaha the principle of anarchy. The individual became superior to the government and to the law. If we want mob law in our country, why not go about it in an orderly fashion...
Today, the race question faces the American people as a living and vital issue. It must be settled and settled once for all. Two road lie before us, one to justice and freedom, the other to slavery and bondage for the colored man. The negro stands before you, asking you to decide what you are going to do. He asks no favors because he is a negro, but only for justice because he is a man and an American. Is he going to get it or not? JOHN W. FREEMAN...
...perfectly just in pointing out that a city with no "negro problem" has no right to take up a "holier than thou" attitude; but when he belittles as foolhardy the man who risked his life in defence of law and order, we can only regret it; and when even by implication he makes out a lynching mob as in any degree less contemptible than their victim, we cannot join issue with him too quickly. SYDNEY FAIRRANKS...