“It is about time for the ministers of the A.M.E. Church, who, in the aggregate, are the most progressive, enlightened and racial of the Africanite ministry of the world, with the highest regard for all other denominations, to begin to tell the young men of our race to stay out of the United States Army. If it is a white man’s government, and we grant it is, let him take care of it. The Negro has no flag to defend.”
–”The Negro Should Not Enter the Army” (May 1, 1899)
Missionary Department of the Atlanta, GA A.M.E. Church
Source: Voices of a People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
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