Excerpt from The South and the Negro: An Address Delivered at the Seventh Annual Conference for Education in the South Birmingham, Ala;, April 26th, 1904 Whatever the cause or causes, there is no disguising the fact that there is great unrest and growing discontent among the negroes of the South. They are beginning to feel friend less and hopeless. The frequent Iynchings that disgrace our civilization, the advocacy by some of limiting to the minimum the school advantages provided for them, and the widening gulf of separation between the younger generations of both races, have produced a measure of despair. There are few negroes in my native State of Mississippi, the owners of property, who would not sell out at a fair valuation. Many of the thriftiest and most conservative feel, Whether justly or not, that sentiment is so hostile to their race as to make all their values insecure. And as opportunity offers they are quietly leaving the sections in which they have long lived and labored. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.