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Negroes Will Leave If the GovernmeutWlil Pay Nxpenses,Chattanooga, Tenn., special: A petition to the President and Congress of the United States asking for an appropriation of $500,000,900, to assist negroes to leave the United States has been prepared by the International Emigration and Commercial Association, an organization of negroes, in session here. The petition recites a long train of abuses to which, it is claimed, the negroes are subjected. It is asserted that in many of the States the negro was neither in social nor political standing, and that his constitutional rights are constantly violated. The leading spirits In the convention are Bishop Turner of Georgia, and ex-Minister to 14*berla Heard.
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Newport Hoosier State
Newport, Indiana, US
Wed, Jun 04, 1902
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