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 ...
Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to ...
The religious wars of Europe have been numbered with the past,But a worse thing, bright America with clouds has overcast,'Tis ...
You, no doubt, have heard the story told of Charleston by the sea,How they persecute a Negro when a man ...
When a Negro comes in question you may watch the Southern press,See how bias its opinions, how his ills are ...
When Egypt said, "ExterminateThe males among the Jews,Fair Goshen's land make desolateAnd bid them glad adieus:"The darkest hour then was ...
Birthday greetings From a friend, All thy meetings Peace attend. Time extended Be thy store, Bliss appended Evermore. Did the flowers Born of May, From their bowers Choose a day? Music ringing, On the air, Flowers springing Everywhere. Chanting gayly, Five and eight, Make the day we Celebrate. Where's the doctor? Can you tell, How she make her Patients well? Soul of beauty, Day by day, To her duty Hies away. With the sickest, Day and night, In the thickest Of the fight. Heaven's treasure Be thine end, Is the measure Of a friend. (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer)
The ills of all the human race,The woes of earth that bring disgraceWould banish, if we only could,Escape the fiend, ...
All ye nations, pause a moment! listen to the Negro's voice,Coming up from all vocations where his life has made ...
The sixties brought a clash of arms-The mem'ry of it thrills and charms-While Negro slaves for freedom prayed,Till Heaven bowed ...
The Southern pulpit, in our eyes,Descends to make a compromiseWith evil things in heaven's name;The kind that brings a blush ...
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