The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-19
GIVE THE COLORED MAN JUSTICE

ce The communication a protest against the we'll knoy cre The Birth of Naon It is also eulogy of the colo who deserves it will be found when the count is ned all the good things that have been said about him. He the letter. It will repay a careful perusal.
 For the last three weeks, evenings, when going home after the theatre let out hear many comments on that so-caed wonderful play 'The Birth of a Ma GOn.' Surely those who do not who know American History. The very first blood shed this great Counrys independence that of a black Christucko Atucks whose statue stands State St, Boston, Mass. In the of 1912 picture the great warrior, John Paul Jones, standing his flag ship
 looking down the body of Ben Doves, that black man. And there are the words of Mir. Jones, "This black man was seaman and a warrior of the sea- and has died not knowing his vaue.'
 Dear readers will you picture people for two and
 half centuries oppressed with slavery deprived of all social and educational privileges, yet whose labor possible the agricultural ceners and in many the commercial enterprises of this country Draw pie ture of those black men who protected their masters homes while their masters fighting to keep them slaves, while other black stole their way the Union soldiers to help them preserve the Union and not free the slaves altogether, but the Union could not be united half free and half slave slavery
 shed. Most historians know just after the Civil War that the carpet baggers of the South tried put perienced negroes in office to make the North think they made mistake by giving the negro his freedom This is where Mr. Dixon writes that false play "The Birth of Nation"
 I ask the question-Has any race in fifty years under similar circumstances shown the progress the negro has in this country any other? business he shows ability in education he shows the qualfica ions, in professions he proves himself worthy mas ter. Physically he holds his wherever plac- ed and religiousy he shows mankind that loves his God Do not these prove to the world that the negro is worthy of more than that picture of MT. Dixon's play "The Birth of a Nation"?
 Call that Great American and friend of inc neoro from the reddened clay of Sagamore Hill-Theodore Roosevelt-and ask him of the war of '9s If it were possible for his dead tongue to answer he would tell you of the 9h and 10th Cavares of black soldiers who saved his life at San Juan hll also tell to you that it was through them the victory of that battle won
 Last but not least, in this great worlds war that has just closed, has the negro every way his loyalty and Patriotism in helping be a country to stand out example for coming cener- atons? Does not the black boy sleep field as much other? This being true, is it for the laws of this country any other country to allow picture to be shown representing the negro Mr. Dix on does in that picture The Birth of a Nation' deem it unfair and the work of the man in this conn- try unappreciated. Do you find the red flag among the negroes? Do you find Bolsheviki among the blacks? Or do you find loyal, enthusiastic people? am sure the latter will be found among the American negroes. All who commend Mir. Dixon's play "The Birth of Nation are people who do not know Amer ican History and would do well to study the same While congrauatng the writer upon his splendid ion of his yet that perhaps errs two pa uars He does less than justice to the colored as nerican soldier He places too much weight upon u that said about the colored man, rdicule Id him to less than respectful so far as pa the Birth of Nation concerned; they do the co ,d man no harm Though the play much eXagSerates Il of the coored during days yet forn background against thoughtful will see the coor m, not in "a worse, but in a better light
 The days of reconstruction not the anarchy the reconstruction the South there French Re lton. Afterward the great war, and anarchy ssia and throughout Central Europe.
 In later days there will be pictures Russians showir the Bolsheyiks acted There have been pictures ures will show awful things; assassnato olesale legal murder organized in regiments that the men deserng; sections organize the legal overthrow of marriage; all things which sho m in his worst nature.
 We suggest to the colored people that when these pictures along they suggest that pictures like u rth of Nation be shown in the places at the san le.
 Let Americans in this the white at his Let Amegicans see the negro at his worst.
 It is to tic enduring credit of the colored in the Sou during the legal anarchy of the reconstruction period tried race to abolish marriage; nduged olesale massacre in numbers anywhere descen tothe level of social namy which the white man falls len social authority is disorganized Viewed in it's proper perspective the Birth of Natie 4isx dooo oi4ix