Carolina QuotesA religious staying off of the growing evil of the race — the excursion business — will do more to overthrow the odious Jim Crow laws of our statute books than all the railroad suits which are prosecuted.
Ida B. Wells Connected to the Carolinas
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- "Requirements of Southern Journalism" (1892)
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- 1892
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