National Affairs: Honored

There is a little county seat in New Jersey called Mays Landing. It was 26 years ago that a Negro working his way through a western university had a nervous breakdown. So he gave up his education and went to Mays Landing where he opened a barber shop. Business was good. After a time he abandoned the barber shop to continue as a tradesman in tobacco, candy and other small goods. Nobody paid much attention to him. He was practically the only Negro in town. He did not go to Church, in fact he...

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