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Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to B. L. Marchant

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Marchant, B. L New Hope Baptist Church (Wichita, Kan.)

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Deeming the assertion that most race riots are caused by "social relation between whites and Negroes" "an unmitigated lie," and discounting it as the origin of recent riots in Chicago, Washington, St. Louis, Atlanta, "or any of the major explosions."
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