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The Bond Family
(Continued from page 41)
havedied than to have given up, gone
back to my people and confessed that
I could not make it, that I had failed.
Mrs. Bond, a born teacher, a fine
Greek, Latin and French scholar, has
taught most of her married life, add-
ing considerable to our monthly stipend
and at the same time carried more
than her share of church and com-
munity work, holding up my hands and
cheering me on when I hesitate or
faltered.

Gilbert and James, the two eldest
boys, received college instruction at
Talledega and Atlanta Universities
and have made creditable records, each
having done his bit for Uncle Sam in
the Great War. Thomas, now pro-
fessor of science in Simmons University
and Y.M.C.A secretary, is a B.S.
from Langston University, Oklahoma,
and A.B. from Lincoln University,
Pa. Maxwell, now Director of Phys-
ical Education in the Pittsburg Y/M/
C.A., completed his undergraduate
work at Chicago "Y" College and in
the University of Chicago with the
degree of B.P.E. Horace now in
the Graduate School of Education of
the University of Chicago is an A.B.
from Lincoln University, Pa., and
A.M. from University of Chicago.
He is on leave of absence from the
C.A. & N. University of Oklahome
where for two years he was head of the
department of education. He has con-
tributed articles to The Crisis, Oppor-
tunity, The South Atlantic Quarterly,
School and Society, The Journal of
Abnormal and Social Psychology, Har-
low's Weekley and various other edu-
cational journals. Lucy, the youngest
child, having finished her high school
education in Central High School,
Louisville, is now taking her college
course in Oberlin accompanied by her
mother who is pursuing post graduate
work in history and sociology and read-
ing French on the side.

The South Revisited
(Continued from page 43)
The last place at which I stopped
was Jackson, Mississippi. While
there, I called upon the wife of the
president of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
ple's local branch. She apologized to
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I needed was to make my work acqui-
sitive, to make money out of Negroes.
Then, and then only, would my visits
be approved by Chambers of Com-
merce and Rotary Clubs. My host-
ess, who was young, slender and active,
talked of many things -- of the new
high school for the colored, of the bet-
ter streets where the weel-to-do col-
ored people lived. She liked her city
very much. After a little, Henry, her
boy of twelve came in, fine-looking
youngster. When he had gone out to
play, we began discussing the subject
of whether or not it were best for him
to grow up in the South.

"MISSISSIPPI is my state," his
mother said, "and I don't
want to leave it, but sometimes I get
worrying. I can't forget what hap-
pened when Henry was a small boy,
not more than six. We were out
walking together and we passed a little
white girl was was eating an ice cream
cone. My boy stopped and stared af-
ter her, his mouth watering. A white
man, loafing on the sidewalk, turned
and said to me: 'You'd better look af-
ter that boy of yours. He needs a
noose around his neck.'"

I gave an exclamation of horror.
She went on very quietly. "It was
a good while ago, but I can't forget.
I wake up in the night, sometimes,
trembling. It isn't as if I didn't know
how little it takes to arouse the whites.
I had an uncle who was lynched. He
was a good man, a preacher and re-
spected. But he got into words about
a debt that a white man was trying
to collect from him. He didn't be-
lieve the debt was just and he an-
swered back and said just what he
thought. They shot him to death.
That wasn't so very long ago. So you
can see sometimes I'm worried. I
don't bring my boy up to hate the
whites. I don't want to preach hatred
to anyone, but I bring him up to avoid
them."

The husband had come in and gave
his opinion.

"I've wanted to go North and set -
tle in Detroit, " he declared, "since I
read a catalogue of Michigan Univer-
sity two summers ago. I'd like my
boy to go to college there."

Will this Negro family, one of the
most progressive and interesting that
Mississippi is likely to produce, go
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