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Johnson is quoted as saying: "I have been to Africa, and know how our people are treated there under British rule, and know that some of them are in worse condition than slavery. And shall we sit idly by while the bloody hounds of hell carry on their selfish desires? No! Methinks I hear the voices of 400,000,000 Negroes saying: 'We will give our money; we will give our aid and our life's blood if need be, for Africa shall be freed.'"
In the following article, "Miss Henrietta V. Davis Addresses Great Mass Meeting in Frisco," Davis is quoted describing Marcus Garvey's initial explorations of "why the black people was kept down and the white people exalted." She says, "[Garvey] traveled in Europe, Asia and Africa, then he came over to America to investigate. He saw the hideous prejudice hurled against the Negro all over the United States, the lynching, the jim crowism and ostracism in the South."
The "Monster Mass Meeting" mentioned in the first article is a reference to a "Demonstration Against the Ku Klux Klan" advertised earlier in the issue.
