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W. E. B. Du Bois

The only crime the black sharecroppers had committed

1919
New York City, New York, U.S.

Infuriated with the distortions, Du Bois published a letter in the New York World, claiming that the only crime the black sharecroppers had committed was daring to challenge their white landlords by hiring an attorney to investigate contractual irregularities.


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