Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — Forty Acres and a Mule. [ARTICLE]

Forty Acres and a Mule.

Some important as well as interesting testimony was given before the Industrial commission the other day by Major R. B. Wright, a colored man, who is president of an industrial college near Savannah, Ga. The’ testimony pertained to the condition of negroes in the south, and was to the effect that if the government had given each colored man forty acres and a mule Instead of the ballot it would have been of more benefit to the raoe. In other words, Major Wright is of the opinion that work rather than suffrage is th© only solution of the negro problem. •