The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-05-01
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Volumes have been written, orators
have exhausted their store of language
and newspapers have written long edi-
torias, endeavoring to point out a way
that would lead TO real success for the
Negro of this country 1t has been said
that the Negro has no pride in himself,
and that race without pride can
never make real success. This is true;
and yet the foundation of pride must
always be a knowledge of ones his
tory. When the Negro knows himself,
he will be proud of himself, AMI having
had his pride once aroused, success is
fully assured. We find no hesitancy in
saying that nothing has been done
since emancipation that has aroused
the Negroes of this country to a sense
of their own importance or injected
stronger hope into the hearts Of his
friends, as the great Negro exhibit at
the jamestown Exposition, that was
conceived in the mind of Col Giles 3.
Jackson, and carried to most remark
able and successful termination. Sen
ators, governors, diplomats, representa-
tiVes and the president himself were
loud i'm their praise. Col Jackson, not
content with this achievement, believ-
ing as he does that thousands upon
thousands of our people were unable
by reason of the shortness of time and
the stringency of the money market to
see this great exhibition, he has de-
cided to put this in permanent form.
He has called to his aid the well known
d. Webster Davis of literary fame, and
together they have written THE In
rioI ictn of ba Of
the United States" as cleaned from the
great Negro exhibit at the jamestown
Exposition. This book is destined to
be of incalcuable benefit to the race,
placing as it were, the Negro exhibit
into every home by means of numerous
cuts and illustrations. The reading
matter is not only fascinating and en-
tertaining, but instructive and reliable
The price is merely nominal (S100
$1.50 and $3.50, and it seems to us as
a matter of race PRIZE that the news
papers of this country should do all In
their power to encourage the placing
OF this book in every Negro home and
into the hands of every school boy and
girl. 1t is confidentially expected by
the editors that this book will be
adopted in the schools of the various
otdleS as text DOCK, and certainly
nothing fairer or better could be done
to uplift the people.
We commend this book most heartily
to the reading public and urge that
they purchase it in large numbers, for
only by this means can the publishers
lind result for their painstaking and
ar iuous labors of love for the good of
the race. 1t is a complete history of
the race from its origin to the present
time and deals with every possible
phase of the Negro question from every
point of view. 1t shows his remarkable
progress along social, economic and in
dustrlal lines, his accumulation of
property, his business enterprises. his
schools and colleges, all backed up bv
statistics obtained from the most relia-
BILE sources. 1t is absolutely astounding
to see what has already been accom-
pllshed and the dullest and most pess-
lmlstlc soul must receive inspiration
from reading this splendid volume.
The editors are calling for 10000 agents
TO sell this book. Liberal arrangements
VIII be made by writing to Giles B.
jackson or r. r. Hill, COZ N. Second
street, Richmond, Va.