...Garibaldi Street early Monday morning during the severe cold [Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, dated Feb. 6]. If you can freeze to death in the North and be free,...mother, sister, and daughter are raped and burned at stake, where your father, brother and son are treated with contempt and hung to a pole, riddled with...

...instances where Negroes had frozen to death during southern winters, the Defender asked pointedly: "If you can freeze to death in the North and be free,...riddled with bullets at the least mention that he [sic] does not like the way he is treated. . . . The Defender says come." 19 In spite of repressive...

...opens the paper.) BERLINDA. Instead of evil spirits readin' the paper, we ought to. (Reading poorly.) "If you can freeze to death in the North and be free,...why freeze to death in the South and be a slave?" (Looking at him.) Don't that make sense to you? It make plenty a sense to me. (HE doesn't answer, weakening...

...Americans to leave the South: I beg you, my brother..., leave the benighted land. You are a free man.... If you can freeze to death in the North and be free,...the stake; where your father, brother, and sons are hung from a pole. Come North, both good and bad. The Defender says come. Ida sensed that war was inevitable....

...rumor that blacks would freeze to death in the North, the Defender countered that this was "all 'bosh.' IF YOU CAN FREEZE TO DEATH in the north and be free,...where your mother, sister and daughter are raped. . . . where your father, brother and son are . . . hung to a pole, iand] riddled with bullets. . ....

...square deal in court yet?' challenged the editor, Robert S. Abbott, himself a migrant from Georgia. 'If you can freeze to death in the North and be free,...why freeze to death in the South and be a slave?' he asked a year later, in 1917. 'Some are coming on the passenger Some are coming on the freight, Others...

...cities were trying to restrict distribution. The white South simply did not like Abbott's message. "If you can freeze to death in the North and be free," asked a page-one story in February 1917, "why freeze to death in the South and be a slave, where your...

...migrants, the Defender cited reports of African Americans freezing to death in the South, as well: "If you can freez.e to death in the North and be free,...bullets at the least mention that he does not like the wav he is treated. Come North then, all you folks, both good and bad. If you don't behave yourselves...