The mobbing of harmless, helpless Negroes in the capital of this country is the nation's everlasting shame. The responsibility for starting the riots, which ruled Washington for days, rests upon disorderly lawless whites. Peaceable, unoffending colored men and boys were beaten up and murdered by brutes who boast of our white civilization.
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Editorial, La Follette's Magazine, August 1919 on the Red Summer Riots. Quoted in "This Week in Magazines : A Remarkably Resilient Progressive Turns 100", James Warren, Huffington Post, 20th May, 2009. Retrieved 8th November, 2019.