Death stalked through the streets of Washington at midnight. Stopping before a house on S Street, he entered. He approached a bedside in an upper room around which a woman and her two young sons were gathered, attending their husband, their father. Just 30 minutes afterward death claimed his due—probably the foremost politician the Negro race has produced in the U.S.
In reconstruction days, in 1870, a son was born to two ex-slaves living in Augusta. There must have been considerable white blood in him, for even...
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