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THE BLACK IS ONLY SKIN DEEP.The '‘black devil*** came home weekbeftilv last mol Chicago turned out -iimasse to welcome them. The ‘'ibsvtls”were the city's colored regiment theKtglifh who saw enough service tolos»* ninety fivi- in- n ki11*^*1 and overfour hundred wounded The “black devils” never quailed. They nev* t , lt;look a prisoner. The-' fought with a rufih and w hen they come bark home the downtown streets were lined with hundred a of thousands, white and black, to see them march by. It was ( a splendid night Behind each company nirr* ! the mother*, sweetheart*, and sister.- r.t that unit in perfect, t imin hint: order they swung along, hel- I meted itml wearing every sign of aol-djershlp: atid a* v i- watched them I thought: Hit re ij a p eoph* whore 1grnndpurerii* v. »-r. -Iv.*y WinJet par ♦•nt* are to this day deprived of cm- 1 tain blessing of American citizenship, ‘ and ivho theincolvo* had begun to feel lt;ill© iinudiiitp of race They are re- 1 turning from riuttmu Tillers and Del- 1 lean Wood*, where they gme them*!1 srdve* In ihe duest demons(ration of 1 American HU/enshlp. They forgave .ill They forgot nil They were Amor- i Icti up. mid ili* about i hni a it(inipn tiled llodi regnUii tread told Unit Chicago wii- proud to own Omni us fellow i Americans, Would that their line of march could hnve taken them throng i ♦ very rity of thi- eonutn ' \Vmild that ihow se tioii of the country vvhoi I ho Negro in dorfpised uml dcpHvci) lt;l the common bktoainr- of elli/.endilp could liuvo been honored dor H would hov*» been tin honor) by having this i fighting Klglnh swing down their strertjt Jii military order’ Altd to think i that thin regiment Is bui one of scores i who fought us true Amen vim* to prt- i n*rvo the liberties which to a m In- i considerable * vimd had been denied them Kenlly, there 1m a glimpse of character just her* that has r.irel. been duplicated in the field of patriot ism -An bid it or lal in the Northwest-1 cm Christian Advocate of March a. 191D. i
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Kansas City Sun
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sat, Apr 12, 1919
Page 12
Full Page
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Gina S.
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