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f'Soi nis rasn act. litwiPREJUDICE STOPS NOT AT THE GRAVE.th.The late Governor Pinckney Benton on Stewart Pinchback who harl the dis- lm tinction of having been elected to, or, ba apopinted to more prominent political mi positions than any other colored man in in Louisiana; in life, now has the dis- co tinction in death of being the only th: (known) colored man buried in Metairie cemetery in New Orleans, tin Thirty-five or forty years ago the ye Pinchback family legally became the an ov/ners of a tomb in that exclusive no cemetery and the remains of the late er; P. B. S. Pinchback were taken there wi for interment and a storm of protest cu was raised by the owners of tombs, but as the family owned the tomb an they rested on their rights and the eri interment was made, but no ceremony he of any sort was allowed to be made, ex and only one automobile to accom- eli pany the hearse. On resurrection ev morn, we wonder what those color prejudiced people will do, when they C learn that a “nigger” is among them?
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The Appeal
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sat, Jan 21, 1922
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