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"Freedom of itself is a beautiful word-but freedom without law to back it is anarchy. Just as men must have freedom to think and speak in order to progress and indeed survive, so must they have self-made laws regulating that freedom.
History has…

"NEW ORLEANS-- The “Tulane Hullabaloo,” official student publication at Tulane university here, gave fine editorial treatment to the University of Illinois’ selection of a Negro girl as queen of its annual homecoming, Nov 10.
The paper said…

"(For ANP)
Remember on our far-flung fronts
This Fourth of July,
Soldiers of democracy
Guard our earth and sky.
Those of us who stay at home
Have grave duties, too:
The WAR FRONT
Depends on
THE HOME FRONT—
The HOME FRONT is YOU!"

"“Biggest” and best bouquet this week goes to students of Illinois for their part in one of the most courageous actions taken by any student body in recent years. The Illinois elected a nineteen-year-old girl as queen of their 42nd homecoming two…

"The reporter who wrote up the disturbance on July 4th at McKinley Park (for Negroes,) when a car of whites went out of their way to molest a picnic group, deemed it funny or a joke, when we give it a very serious ratinng. To begin with it was not a…

"Ever since I first heard Father Boland use the tranchant phrase which is my text, I have felt that in those three words, properly understood, lies the hope of unity, the expression of that for which we are fighting and the way to achieve the Victory…

In the Waverly Sun recently there was an editorial on an “Appreciation Club” the aim of which was, at periodic intervals, to express appreciation to some resident for something he or she had done for the community. I think it is a splendid idea and I…

"Chicago, July 23—J.G. Holmes. A white man of Cedar Rapids Iowa hits one “Frank Harris” a stinging blow, in a special letter to the Chicago Tribune. If one is looking for a statement with a “Kick” in it, here it is:
Says Mr. Holmes: “I see that…

"READ “THE MAGNA CARTA”
Editor the Defender: The Fourth of July comes and goes and there is very little effort on the part of our public men to teach the people just what that day means, not only to the people in the United States, but to the…

"Exercising the democratic rights afforded them under the Constitution, the “March-On-Washington” committee held an historic meeting in Chicago Friday night.
The event brought 12,000 people to the world famous Coliseum to give a deafening ovation…

"Colored Delegates - Among the delegations from the Southern States to the Chicago Convention, says that Marysville Appeal, are several colored men : J.II. Harris of North Carolina, Lynch of Mississippi, Grey of Arkansas, Duman of Louisiana, Cardoza,…
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