Source: E. E. Cooper, African American editor of the Washington, D.C., newspaper Colored American, newspaper articles, 1898. March 19: [The war with Spain will result in a] quickened sense of our duty toward one another, and a loftier conception of the obligations of government to its humblest citizen. . . . April 30: [Black participation in the war will bring about] an era of good feeling the country over and cement the races into a more compact brotherhood through perfect unity of purpose and patriotic afnity [where White people will] . . . unloose themselves from the bondage of racial prejudice.