The Souls of Black

In 1906 he is witness to a pogrom against the black population or of Atlanta, Georgia. A few years after that he's involved in the founding of the NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Color People then at least now the longest established civil rights human rights organization in black America. He becomes editor of their periodical the crisis which becomes essential reading for activists nationally and globally. The boys' presence in NAACP becomes anomalous as the United States begins to retreat from more agonizing aspects of Jim Crow.