oct 13, 1880 - Thomas Fortune
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Timothy Thomas Fortune was an orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor and publisher. He was the highly influential editor of the nation's leading black newspaper The New York Age and was the leading economist in the black community. Those who remained organized for self defense, in the face of more than a hundred lynchings a year. Thomas Fortune, a young black editor for the New York Globe, told the Senate, “The white man who shoots a negro always goes free, while the negro who steals a hog is sent to the chain gang for ten years." For some reason even though we are equal there are less prosperous black men than white men.
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