Murdering Negroes.

• Author: La Follette, Robert M.
• Position: 1919 - Brief article

The mobbing of harmless, helpless Negroes in the capital of this country is the nation's everlasting shame.

The responsibility for starting the riots, which ruled Washington for days, rests upon disorderly lawless whites.

Peaceable, unoffending colored men and boys were beaten up and murdered by brutes who boast of our white civilization.

A reign of hysteria and terror prevailed throughout the sections of the city where the colored population resides.

While the United States Senate is debating the League of Nations, which...