Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, General Research and Reference Division. Reproduced with permission from the Board of Directors, The Good Life Center.

Scott Nearing, Black America (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929)

In several parts of the country, African Americans were the objects of violence from white mobs, and their property was vandalized. This school for African-American children in Red Bank, New Jersey, was torched by whites.