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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... million members ; to - day he claims six million ; while most analyses of his other figures and data indicate that he has never had more than twenty or thirty thousand dues - paying members . He loudly announced that his 1922 convention ...
... million members ; to - day he claims six million ; while most analyses of his other figures and data indicate that he has never had more than twenty or thirty thousand dues - paying members . He loudly announced that his 1922 convention ...
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... million of assessed property , worth twice that much . Does not that record honor him and vindicate his neighbors ... million - and this in the face of prejudice not yet conquered – of the fact that the whites are assessed for $ 368 ...
... million of assessed property , worth twice that much . Does not that record honor him and vindicate his neighbors ... million - and this in the face of prejudice not yet conquered – of the fact that the whites are assessed for $ 368 ...
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... million people within it , made by its own decree a component part of it , to be subjected to a system of oppression so rank that nothing could make it seem small except the fact that they had already been ground under it for a century ...
... million people within it , made by its own decree a component part of it , to be subjected to a system of oppression so rank that nothing could make it seem small except the fact that they had already been ground under it for a century ...
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ALAIN LOCKE The High Cost of Prejudice | 3 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR Nixon v Herndon | 10 |
WILLIAM PICKENS The Emperor of Africa | 20 |
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