One Common Country for One Common People: Selected Writings and Speeches of Dr. John Jefferson Smallwood

“The negro will not be alarmed at the unjust talk against him, as is often uttered by Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina. He will not be sent to the island of the sea to please Mr. Graves, of Georgia. The negro is here to stay, to work, to learn, to obey, to pray and to accumulate property and to become a responsible factor in his own country and nation.”

--Dr. John Jefferson Smallwood
September 25, 1903

“John J. Smallwood is the most eloquent negro orator that has ever spoken in Steubenville. He ...