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[stamp: ACK'D SEP 6 1913 J.A.K.]

September 4, 1913

[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
SEP 6 1913
RECEIVED]

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His Excellency,
The President,
Washington D. C.,

Your Excellency:

It has come to my notice that there have been issued orders in
some of the departments and bureaus at Washington, segregating colored
officials and employes from white persons, simply because of race. Other
discriminations, I learn, are practiced.

As a white man and Christian, I want to voice my protest against
such unchristian, un-American and undemocratic discrimination. A colored
man has exactly the same rights, legally and morally, that belong to a
white man. Politically we must permit him to enjoy just as much as the
white man enjoys.

Certain state legislatures have practically barred the negro from
voting, and others have taken from him his civic rights, while it is
noteworthy that he has not a fair and impartial hearing in many courts.
No mob that wreaked its vengeance on a colored man ever was punished. Al-
lowing for sectional prejudice, must the federal government, however,
not only wink at such abuses, but actually further them and enter into
their spirit and practice?

Respectfully,
J. H. Larimore

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