The Reverend Adam Clayton Powell captures the feeling of many – but not all – African Americans as the threat of war grows real. Thirty-eight people, all but two of them black, are lynched in 1917.
March 29, 1917 — It is infinitely more disgraceful and outrageous to hang and burn colored men, boys and women without a trial in the days of peace than it is for Germans in time of war to blow up ships loaded with mules and molasses.
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