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AMERICAN BARBARIANS.iWalter White In the New Republic wives some heretofore unpublished fact* about the tragedy at Ocoee, Orange County, Florida. last Election Ray. The story given out at the time was that two Negroes named Mow Norman and July Perry had tried to vote when they were not qualified, andon being refused had flourished revolvers; the lynching that followed was thus satisfactorily explained according to certain Southern Idea* on the subject. But Mr. White found that the registration hooks showed that Mose Norman had qualified and registered and was entitled to vote. “He was unpopular with the whites because he was too prosperous—he owned an orange grove for which he had refused offers of $10,000 several times. July Perry was foreman of a large orange grove owned by a Wortaern white man. The community felt that the Job he bad belonged to a white man. So “a mob formed, went out and surrounded the colored settlement, applied kerosene, burned twenty houses, two churches, a school house, and a lodge house. Two members of the mob were killed. Parry was wounded and later lynched. A white citizen of Ocoe* boasted that fifty-six Negroes were killed. Among those burned to death were a mother and her two-week-old baby. Art elev-en-yea if old white girl, questioned byMr. White, “told exultingly of ‘the fun we had when some niggers were burned up.’ ’* The adults were more restrained—they had wily “an air of meritorious work well done.8uoh a pielhre doe* not require comment. Probably the sane people ofthe Houth are just as sickened by it us the rest of us. But there It is. The white people who keep the Negro down by such methods are no more civilized than the governing classes Of antiquity, Whose quite similar methods appall the student of history. They may have automobiles and read the world’* news the day after it happens, but underneath their modern cllt;j|hes they are barbarians. They are not the whole South by any means,but they and their *tnt« mi mind umjust as much a problem to the rest of the United State** a* the Negro is to them.*—From the New York World,~o— Nj|HTISKMiKFS SENIOR CLASSRENDERS FINE I*HUH.RAM——Tuskegee Inst., Ala., Feb. 2®.—That the colored bojf and girl have every right to be proud of their race was fully and very clearly shown, by the splendid program rendered by members of the Senior Class In the Institute Chapel. Monday irrsnlng ■ Theterm “Negro Night” was applied tothe evening as the program consistedof selections concerning the Negro. Oration* were delivered pertaining toevery phase of Negro development.achievement and contribution to civil, illation. In uddition to these numbers musical selections, written by Negro composers wer# rend red. amongh.tdi were compositions of Harry T Burleigh^ J. Rosamond Johnson andtwo students of Tuskegee Institute, William L. Dawson and Alonzo P. lima It*.The program was inspiring and in-
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Philadelphia Tribune
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Mar 05, 1921
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