RACES: Land of Canaan?

In Manhattan last week, Benjamin F. Hubert, colored president of the State Industrial College for Negroes (Savannah, Ga.), pleaded with unemployed Harlem Negroes to come back home. He pictured the South as a Land of Canaan. He assured Harlem that racial disagreement was a thing of the past in the South, told of eating with white folk in Atlanta hotels, speaking before the Legislature. Mourned he:

"It is supremely tragic to see strong men begging for nickels on the streets of this city when down in Georgia and South Carolina there is...

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