The Negro in American History: A taste of freedom, 1854-1927Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, 1972 - African Americans Source material quoting from diaries, letters, court decisions, poetry, statements, articles, etc. by 137 different authors. |
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... Amendment of the Constitu- tion , abolishing slavery , and the Fourteenth Amendment , which prohibits certain restrictive legislation on the part of the states . 1. That it does not conflict with the Thirteenth Amendment , which ...
... Amendment of the Constitu- tion , abolishing slavery , and the Fourteenth Amendment , which prohibits certain restrictive legislation on the part of the states . 1. That it does not conflict with the Thirteenth Amendment , which ...
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... Amendment . That amendment prohibits the states from denying to any person the equal protection of the laws , and declares that Congress shall have power to enforce , by appropriate legislation , the provisions of the amendment . The ...
... Amendment . That amendment prohibits the states from denying to any person the equal protection of the laws , and declares that Congress shall have power to enforce , by appropriate legislation , the provisions of the amendment . The ...
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... Amendments to the Constitution The so - called Civil War Amendments were intended , from a variety of motives , to settle the uncertain status of the Negro in the United States . The Thirteenth Amendment , ratified eight months after ...
... Amendments to the Constitution The so - called Civil War Amendments were intended , from a variety of motives , to settle the uncertain status of the Negro in the United States . The Thirteenth Amendment , ratified eight months after ...
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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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