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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday October 14, 1919
“With the souls of warriors they marched without a whimper to their doom.”
From The Messenger of October 1919:
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SOURCE & IMAGE
The Messenger
-Editors: A Philip Randolph & Chandler Owen
Messenger Pub. Co.-New York, NY
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000056822
Volumes 1-2, 1917-1920
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887&view=2up&seq=6
Messenger of Oct 1919
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887&view=2up&seq=302
“Her Thirteen Black Soldiers” by Archibald Grimke
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887&view=image&seq=327
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887&view=image&seq=328
See also:
Archibald Grimké
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Grimk%C3%A9
“A Court Martial Tragedy
(First Publication of facts gleamed from official documents and
interviews with soldier-prisoners by a white investigator)”
From same issue of The Messenger pages 21-24:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887&view=2up&seq=322
And continued on page 31:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887&view=2up&seq=332
Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday January 9, 1918
“One law for the white man…and another for the black man.”
An Editorial From The Messenger: “The Hanging of the Negro Soldiers” on December 11, 1917
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Precious Lord Take Me Hand – Aretha Franklin
Note: The New York Times reported that the soldiers arrived at the scene of their execution singing a hymn. The hymn was not named, but this beautiful hymn seems fitting.