The Eutawville Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
(July, 1904)In the State of "Old Palmetto," from the town of Eutawville,Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses ...
(July, 1904)In the State of "Old Palmetto," from the town of Eutawville,Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses ...
Have you ever heard of lynching in the great United States?'Tis an awful, awful story that the Negro man relates,How ...
Whites alone upon the jury in a number of the states,Thus they crush a helpless Negro with their prejudicial hates;Legal ...
Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to ...
Can America be reckoned as the country of the free?In the light of recent actions 'tis a truth that's hard ...
Down in history we find it and in grandest works of art,How the men on fields of battle play so ...
A lawyer had a legal mouse,A naughty one they say,That took possession of his houseAnd papers ev'ry day,His books and ...
The religious wars of Europe have been numbered with the past,But a worse thing, bright America with clouds has overcast,'Tis ...
How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro's greatest foe!It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can ...
You, no doubt, have heard the story told of Charleston by the sea,How they persecute a Negro when a man ...
Why do people sit in darkness as regards the Negro race?Why so ignorant are nations of conditions in the case?'Tis ...
If within the cruel Southland you have chanced to take a ride,You the Jim Crow cars have noticed, how they ...
Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one,Who to lift a fallen people had a work of ...
When a Negro comes in question you may watch the Southern press,See how bias its opinions, how his ills are ...
Pain and labor of oppression gave the Western world its birth,From such shores the love of freedom ne'er should perish ...
Please be silent now, my country, while I fill the speaker's place;While I point out some abuses that we constantly ...
The president has thus disclosedIn words his noblest plan:"The door of hope shall not be closedUpon the Negro man."His opportunities ...
The ante-bellum Negro prayed,For God to intercede,And God in answer to him said,"Your children shall be freed."The hand was seen ...
Why is it so, Dear Prince of Peace,That wrongs to Negroes never cease?Are they disloyal to thy name,And thus are ...
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