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The Great Migration through the Black press

Now: Why people left

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Louis Fearlessly Tells Why Colored Men are Leaving the South. Addressing himself to a part of a report made to the Church Council recently held in St. Louis and of which Bishop Wilbur P. Thirkield, former president of Howard University, was one of the signers, John R. Hawkins, LL.B., financial .secr
From The Broad Ax · Chicago · Dec 30, 1916 · p. 4. See the full page

A news report on a church leader's speech explaining why Black men are leaving the South.

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Who might the paper hope to reach by printing this bold speech, and what response might it want?

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