Roanoke Negroes Offer Thanks, Randolph, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/racerel.txt ============================================= USGENWEB PROJECT NOTICE: In keeping with the USGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Project Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file is copyrighted and contributed by: William Fischer, Jr. ============================================= December 2003 NEGROES MAKE KIND MENTION ---------------------------- We, the colored people of Roanoke, Ala., feel grateful to our white friends for the many advantages we enjoy here as members of this community. We feel especially grateful to them for the manifestation of their interest in our efforts to improve our moral and religious condition. We wish we were able to express in words our gratitude to them, but that being impossible, we hereby offer to them the assurance that we will let our daily conduct both by word and deed prove us worthy recipients of the interest that they show in our welfare. We feel very deeply indebted to Mrs. B. O. DRIVER for her untiring efforts to help us be better christians [sic]. The expression that “nothing can take the place of personal work” is verified in her relation to us. By her precept and example she teaches us till we feel that it is worth while to live honestly, to fear God and keep his [sic] commandments. We wish also to offer to Prof. VANN, and others who have shown us a spirit of generosity in our educational efforts, a word of gratitude. We shall never forget the earnestness with which Prof. VANN appealing to us in our school closing in the interest of moral integrity as well as literary training. We feel that the manifestations of these, our real friends, together with our appreciation of the same, will be the means of saving our people from the degradation of ungodliness, ignorance and the many vices which hinder the welfare of our race. Jas. A. RILEY, S. S. Supt. [Sunday School Superintendent] [From The Roanoke Leader (Randolph County, Alabama), 28 April 1915, p.1] ---------- Elizabeth Virginia DRIVER, 1874 - 1938