A protest against the burning and lynching of Negroes

A newspaper article in which Washington protests lynchings and lack of trials for blacks accused of murder in the South and in which he asks pulpit and press to speak out against mob violence and lynchings.
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"Was originally printed in the Birmingham age-herald, Monday, February 29, 1904, and was also sent out by the Associated Press to the newspapers of the country."
"Tuskegee, Ala., February 22, 1904"--Leaf [2].
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