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Jacob Street African M. E. Zion Church
418 FINZER ST. NEAR PRESTON
H. T. MEDFORD D. D., PASTOR
Louisville, Ky.
August, 4th. 1919.
Honorable W. T. Bickett
State House, Raleigh, N.C.
Honorable Sir:-
The Associated Press reports of yesterday qout you as saying in effect with reference to the coming of Chicago Negroes to North Carolinia, that they need not come with dreams of social equality or political dominion. I am a native of the "Old North State," born and reared in her Western Section. From my knowledge of my people Negroes no where want social equality. We pride ourselves inour own race above all others. But the Negroes of North Carolinia and those who may come there here after, will relentlessly contend for equal opportunity in the race of life. As to "political dominion," we know our selves to be citizens of this country and shall rest with nothing less than the things the ballot is capable of giving. We love North Carlina with reasonable devotion, but with the stain on her history's pages of race riots in the past, and lynchings of more recent periods, no Negroe can feel that she is any "Have of Rest".
Respectfully yours,
