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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... prejudice and proscription , it is the predicament of an obsessed majority confronted with increasing social dilemma and self - contradiction . No reasonable person expects a society to reform itself for the sake of abstract consistency ...
... prejudice and proscription , it is the predicament of an obsessed majority confronted with increasing social dilemma and self - contradiction . No reasonable person expects a society to reform itself for the sake of abstract consistency ...
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... prejudices between Englishman and Scotchman were notorious ; and even today the Englishman is ruled by prejudice when Ireland and her claims are in question . But these race prejudices have now measurably disappeared , and they will ...
... prejudices between Englishman and Scotchman were notorious ; and even today the Englishman is ruled by prejudice when Ireland and her claims are in question . But these race prejudices have now measurably disappeared , and they will ...
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... prejudice against color , and inferior in that we are unwilling or unable to do so . Neither is true ; and if European nations have found it wise to break down the prejudice against color , it will not be wise , but foolish , for us not ...
... prejudice against color , and inferior in that we are unwilling or unable to do so . Neither is true ; and if European nations have found it wise to break down the prejudice against color , it will not be wise , but foolish , for us not ...
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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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