Reading about Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) this morning. She had these words for "intelligent white southerners" around 1915 --  

“Ask your librarian for books about blacks and praise your minister for preaching about brotherhood—or hint that it is about time that he did."

She started a school, managed several publications (one was the precursor for Ebony mag), and was actively involved in the National Baptist Convention. She criticized Woodrow Wilson for not doing enough to stop lynching and was eventually placed under government surveillance.

She was such a spitfire that this thread could go on forever. I think I love her.

Okay, two more: she urged the same southern whites to read from black publications because “as a white person in the South, you likely know very little about any Negroes except those who have worked for you in some menial position.”

She also lambasted Billy Sunday for preaching to segregated congregations, calling it it “religious Jim Crowism.”

Okay, okay. That's all for now.

Read more about her in A Forgotten Sisterhood by Audrey Thomas McCluskey.