The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.