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The mission of ''The Messenger:'' “Our aim is to appeal to reason, to lift our pens above the cringing demagogy of the times, and above the cheap peanut politics of the old reactionary Negro leaders. Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to. Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer as nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.” ''The Messenger'' set the stage for African American political writing. It was radical and was not afraid to attack issues that other journals and magazines would not. It was ''The Messenger'' that spoke out against Marcus Garvey’s movement because the movement was seen as illogical and farfetched. ''The Messenger'' was a voice for those who were oppressed socially and economically. Many people would have suffered injustice for a longer period of time had it not been for ''The Messenger.'' For eleven years, it paved the way for social justice and equality. It was respected by many and “in 1919, the magazine was described by the U.S. Justice Department as ‘the most able and the most dangerous of all Negro publications.’” (http://nnpa.org/news/media/pdfs/769.pdf). A lost novel of the . Williams was the first professionally trained black librarian in America who married Ethel Chenutt, the daughter of Charles W. Chesnutt , in 1902. The novel has been reprinted as ''When Washington Was in Vogue.'' SEE ALSO FURTHER READING
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