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One Of The Most Singular Facts About The Unwritten History Of This Country Is The Consummate Ability With Which Southern Influence, Southern Ideas And Southern Ideals, Have From The Very Beginning Even Up To The Present Day, Dictated To And Domineered Over The Brain And Sinew Of This Nation.

The Old, Subjective, Stagnant, Indolent And Wretched Life For Woman Has Gone. She Has As Many Resources As Men, As Many Activities Beckon Her On. As Large Possibilities Swell And Inspire Her Heart.

Only The Black Woman Can Say 'when And Where I Enter, In The Quiet, Undisputed Dignity Of My Womanhood, Without Violence And Without Suing Or Special Patronage, Then And There The Whole Negro Race Enters With Me.'

We Might As Well Expect To Grow Trees From Leaves As Hope To Build Up A Civilization Or A Manhood Without Taking Into Consideration Our Women And The Home Life Made By Them, Which Must Be The Root And Ground Of The Whole Matter. Let Our Girls Feel That We Expect Something More Of Them Than That They Merely Look Pretty And Appear Well In Society. Teach Them That There Is A Race With Special Needs Which They And Only They Can Help; That The World Needs And Is Already Asking For Their Trained, Efficient Forces.

Woman's Cause Is One And Universal.