“There can be no doubt of Miss Ovington’s love and sympathy for the negroes. Each page is full of the burning resentment she feels for their wrongs, but one cannot help wondering what her real belief is with regard to the race.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p3 My 1 ’20 630w
“Miss Ovington’s book is well constructed and faultlessly written.”
+ N Y Times 25:25 Je 27 ’20 560w
“Incidentally, the race question is touched upon with sympathy toward all sides of the problem.”
+ Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 40w
“The story is written throughout with a deep sympathy for all the characters.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 240w
“Her black characters are drawn lovingly: for she seems to possess in rare combination that sympathetic affection which the southern white feels for the black when he ‘keeps his place’ together with comprehension of the aspiring mind and soul of the black race.” M. K. R.
+ World Tomorrow 3:287 S ’20 260w