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H R. MonDaineMarytrs for the black man fhave always existed , even ::though now played up by the nation, Cripus Attucks, a run away slave, was the first man to die for the new nation that ;was to be the United States. *Peter Salem a black freed man £pulled the trigger at the Battle jof Bunker Hill which halted Ithe big offensive by the British *which could have halted a re- jvolution. ;Joseph Armistead, different :from his fellow spy, Nathan Hale, is generally credited with helping to win the Revolutionary War by getting his reports in without being captured and hung.Nat Turner, that hated name among white slave holders,and Joseph, Cinque, stand as marvels to a white controlled world. Turner led the biggest of several slave revolts, putting the lie to acceptance by the black man by slaying numerous slave owners before he was betrayed and hung.* Cinque led the revolt aboard a slave ship and then bringing his ship to the U. S. government, winning the right to take black slaves back to where they had lately emerged from.There was Sgt. “Noble*’ Johnson in World War I whose fetes were at least as great as those of Sgt. York, but were mainly accepted by the French whileAmericans allowed this black♦man later to roam Atlanta streets unknown and suffering from his wounds and poverty until he died.This man had slain some 20 Germans when they shot him in the back and then started beating a wounded Negro soldier.There was James Weldon Johnson, and his brother, BenRose-mlt;*nd Johnson, who. wrote the Negro National Athem” shortly after the turn of the century, and handed the black man a big boost in pride.There was Walter White, who■revealed the workings of the Ku Klux Klan and then led the NAACP to glorious heights until his death in the 1950s.Cont'd. on Page 6
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Thomasville News
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Thu, Feb 13, 1969
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