The Negro in American History: A taste of freedom, 1854-1927Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, 1969 - African Americans Vol. 1, A taste of freedom, 1854-1927. Vol. 2, Slaves and masters, 1567-1854. Vol. 3, New Your, New York. |
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... union officers . Yet it still remains that in times of industrial peace the more desirable places are closed against Negroes , either because the employers will not hire them or the men will not work with them . Negroes become ...
... union officers . Yet it still remains that in times of industrial peace the more desirable places are closed against Negroes , either because the employers will not hire them or the men will not work with them . Negroes become ...
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... Union's program . One of the Negroes , Isaac Myers , of the Colored Caulkers ' Trades ' Union Society , made a plea for unity among white and Negro workers . Since no real action followed the rather mild resolutions of the meeting ...
... Union's program . One of the Negroes , Isaac Myers , of the Colored Caulkers ' Trades ' Union Society , made a plea for unity among white and Negro workers . Since no real action followed the rather mild resolutions of the meeting ...
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... Union . Whenever you shall have conquered all resist- ance to the Union , if I shall urge you to continue fighting , it will be an apt time , then , for you to declare you will not fight to free Ne- groes . I thought that in your ...
... Union . Whenever you shall have conquered all resist- ance to the Union , if I shall urge you to continue fighting , it will be an apt time , then , for you to declare you will not fight to free Ne- groes . I thought that in your ...
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