Answer to Question #100791 in History for Flecha

Question

Why did the African American newspaper The Chicago Defender write the following words?

"I beg you, my brother, to leave the benighted land. You are a free man. Show the world that you will not let false leaders lead you. Your neck has been in the yoke....Leave for all quarters of the globe. Get out of the South."

A. to encourage enlistment in the army to fight in World War I
B. to encourage enrollment in the Tuskegee Institute
C. to encourage African Americans in the South to move to the North
D. to encourage African Americans to join the NAACP

Answer 1

C. encourage African Americans in the South to move to the North