Crisis (1910) (14781659671) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: crisis0506dubo (find matches)
Title: Crisis
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, ed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Subjects: African Americans
Publisher: (New York, Crisis Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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nt institutions inAmerica. We have appealed in the past, Mr.Wilson, to you as a man and states-man; to your sense of fairness andbroad cosmopolitan outlook on theworld. We renew this appeal and to itwe venture to add some plain consid-erations of political expediency. We black men still vote. In spite ofthe fact that the triumph of your partylast fall was possible only becauseSouthern white men have, through ourdisfranchisement, from twice to seventimes the political power of Northernwhite men—notwithstanding this, weblack men of the North have a growingnest egg of 500,000 ballots, and ballotsthat are counted, which no sane partycan ignore. Does your Mr. Burlesonexpect the Democratic party to carryNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, by 200,000votes? If he does will it not be wellfor him to remember that there are237,942 black voters in these States.We have been trying to tell these votersthat the Democratic party wants theirvotes. Have we been wrong, Mr. Wil-
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