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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... question is too often put forward merely as the Negro question . It is just as much , and even more seriously , the question of democracy . The position of the Negro in American society is its one great outstanding anomaly . Instead of ...
... question is too often put forward merely as the Negro question . It is just as much , and even more seriously , the question of democracy . The position of the Negro in American society is its one great outstanding anomaly . Instead of ...
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... question had never been raised , Negro genius and talent could have been explained away as the exception ( which it probably is for all groups ) and expropriated without question by the dominant group . As it is , the Negro has been ...
... question had never been raised , Negro genius and talent could have been explained away as the exception ( which it probably is for all groups ) and expropriated without question by the dominant group . As it is , the Negro has been ...
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... question , let them reflect that in no event can the minority success- fully determine this question permanently , and that in no contin- gency will Congress admit Kansas as a slave or free state unless a majority of the people of ...
... question , let them reflect that in no event can the minority success- fully determine this question permanently , and that in no contin- gency will Congress admit Kansas as a slave or free state unless a majority of the people of ...
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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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