t we do & wants us to stay here. Write me at once
that you will do for us we want & opertunity that all we wants is
to show you what we can do and will do if we can find some place,
we wants to leave here for a north drive somewhere. We see
starvation ahead of us here. We want to imigrate to the farmers
who need our labor. We have not had no chance to have anything
here thats why we plead to you for help to leave here to the
North. We are humane but we are not treated such we are treated
like brute by our whites here we dont have no privilige no where
in the south. We must take anything they put on us. Its hard if
its fair. We have not got no cotegous diseases here. We are
looking to here from you soon.

GREENVILLE, MISS., May 29, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ this letter is from one of the defenders greatest
frends. You will find stamp envelope for reply. Will you put me
in tuch with some good firm so I can get a good job in your city
or in Cleveland, Ohio or in Philadelphia, Pa. or in Detroyet,
Michian in any of the above name states I would be glad to live
in. I want to get my famely out of this cursed south land down
here a negro man is not good as a white man's dog. I can learn
anything any other man can. Not only I want to get out of the
south but there are numbers of good hard working men here and do
not know where they are going and what they are going to. Also I
could get a good deal of men from here if I could get in tuch
with some firms that would furnish me the money as passes. Now in
conlution, I want to know what is the trouble? I cannot get
anything more through the Defender. I have written to the
Defender some 3 or 4 times and eather articel was never
published. I recieves a free copy of the Defender every week and
the people here are all ways after me to write some doings to the
Defender and if I write anything it is never published.

GREENVILLE, MISS., 5-20-17.

_Dear Sir:_ I write you asking you some information as I am a
reader of your paper I have been buying a paper every Sunday for
5 months I want to come to your city to live and every thing is
so hard down here everything is so high and wages is low until we
just can live I want to know what will it cost from St. L