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[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
SEP 12 1913
RECEIVED]

[stamp: ACK'D SEP 12 1913 C.T.H.]

Sep. 7 1913

His Excellency, President Woodrow Wilson,
Washington, D. C.

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Dear Sir and President of U. S. A.

I am one of the humblest citizens of the
land, but a man of God.

Please do not segregate the negro laborers of the
National Government, thereby breaking a 50 year
precedent, and humiliating nearly 12 mill-
ion citizens before the world, and blighting
every hope for progress, which we have so
rapidly been making for thirty years. Your
God and conscience do not dictate that
you should so humiliate and ostracize
us I am sure. I beg you in the name
of God to show us pity even as God has given
you wisdom and power.

Very Respectfully and faithfully,
A Negro Citizen
I beg to decribe myself

C. E. Johnson

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