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A Few Years Ago No Hotel Or Restaurant In Boston Refused Negro Guests; Now Several Hotels, Restaurants, And Especially Confectionary Stores, Will Not Serve Negroes, Even The Best Of Them.

The Discrimination Is Not Made Openly, But A Negro Who Goes To Such Places Is Informed That There Are No Accommodations, Or He Is Overlooked And Otherwise Slighted, So That He Does Not Come Again.

There Must Be A Technique For Meeting Pain. There Must Be A Technique Of Endurance Based On The Power Of The Soul To Maintain Its Own Serenity, As Marcus Aurelius Taught Long Ago.

The Very First Time I Was On A Car In Atlanta, I Saw The Conductor - All Conductors Are White - Ask A Negro Woman To Get Up And Take A Seat Farther Back In Order To Make A Place For A White Man. I Have Also Seen White Men Requested To Leave The Negro Section Of The Car.

At First Everyone Predicted That It Would Be Impossible To Hold These Divergent People Together, But Aside From The Skilled Men, Some Of Whom Belonged To Craft Unions, Comparatively Few Went Back To The Mills. And As A Whole, The Strike Was Conducted With Little Violence.