Vesey Street

He knew whereof we spoke.

And the next thing we knew, Mr. Jack Alexander, a star feature writer for the Post, appeared at our Vesey Street office in New York City.

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We were fighting fires.

And there was a group of firefighters, I write about this in the book, working their way down Vesey Street towards, you know, we're half a block from 7 Royal Trail.

And I'm just standing there, I'm drinking water at this point.

All the professionals that they were trying to figure out what to do.

Walked down the escalator to the lower of the two lobbies.

At the bottom of that escalator, a security guard, a woman, was saying, oh, you can't go through the Trade Center out here to Vesey Street.

You've got to go...

Or is that Liberty Street? I get them confused.

What we need now is capital.

Anyone interested in investing money in this enterprise, either as a pure matter of business or as a philanthropy, can get hold of some interesting facts by addressing the manager at 20 Vesey Street, New York City.

do not hesitate to criticize us we want ideas we want short live articles with facts done into english we are not anxious for opinion and we write poetry ourselves if you do not get your copy write us if you do and like it write us if you do not like it do not fail to write us have you got any interesting pictures along the color line send them to us in fact help us to help you and yours End of section 1

THE CRISIS, A RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 4 section two along the color line charles sumner and others charles sumner was born january sixth eighteen eleven the centenary of his birthday was fittingly commemorated in new york boston and washington in new york the anniversary was celebrated with memorial exercises under the auspices of the national association for the advancement of colored people at the meeting-house of the society for ethical culture central park west and sixty-fourth street dr john lovejoy elliott presided and the speakers were mrs fanny garrison villard the only daughter of william lloyd garrison moore field story the boston lawyer who is president of the national association for the advancement of colored people on charles sumner dr w e burckhardt du bois on charles sumner and peace and the rev dr stephen s wise rabbi of the free synagogue on a senator with a conscience a telegram was read from jacob s schiff lauding sumner as standing for the highest moral issues of his time this was followed by the reading of a poem on sumner composed by w p stafford mr moorfield's story said among other things the man who appeals to race prejudice whether to keep his fellow-citizens down or to excite suspicion and enmity against a foreign nation is a public enemy and should be branded as such his acts are far more dangerous to the state than those of the recognized criminal if we would honor sumner we must take up the battle to which he gave his life we must wage unrelenting war against the absurd prejudices of race and color whether they bar the negro from his rights as a man the foreigner from his welcome to our shores the filipino from his birthright of independence the hebrew from social recognition or breed the unjust and wicked suspicion which would embroil us in war with any other people whether of europe or asia such meetings as this are of no avail if they do not inspire us with a determination to obey the precepts and follow the example of the man whom we would commemorate in boston two meetings were held the main meeting in faneuil hall and a branch meeting at park street church ex-governor gild governor foss rev r c ransome and others spoke in washington d c several hundred prominent colored people attended the exercises under the auspices of the american negro academy in the fifteenth street presbyterian church a number of white persons were in the audience and addresses were made by justice wendell phillips stafford and ex-senator william e chandler of new hampshire memorial exercises to julia ward howe were held in symphony hall under the auspices of the city of boston and were largely attended, every available seat being taken, and hundreds being turned away.

What we need now is capital.

Anyone interested in investing money in this enterprise, either as a pure matter of business or as a philanthropy, can get hold of some interesting facts by addressing the manager at 20 Vesey Street, New York City.

Do not hesitate to criticize us.

We want ideas.

There's a concert.

They shut down Vesey Street.

There's bands playing.

Oh.