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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Mortimer Jerome Adler. The Negro in American History no less than twenty bombings took place , yet only two persons have been arrested and neither of the two has been convicted , both cases being continued . Finally , the new spirit ...
Mortimer Jerome Adler. The Negro in American History no less than twenty bombings took place , yet only two persons have been arrested and neither of the two has been convicted , both cases being continued . Finally , the new spirit ...
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Mortimer Jerome Adler. The Negro in American History wasted itself in a bitter cry - Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house ? The shades of the prison house closed round about us all : walls strait and stubborn ...
Mortimer Jerome Adler. The Negro in American History wasted itself in a bitter cry - Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house ? The shades of the prison house closed round about us all : walls strait and stubborn ...
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... American policy which has not perhaps changed American prejudice ; to make ... history . And driven , sir , to this superhuman task with an impatience that ... American history , whose courage and fortitude you tested in five years of the ...
... American policy which has not perhaps changed American prejudice ; to make ... history . And driven , sir , to this superhuman task with an impatience that ... American history , whose courage and fortitude you tested in five years of the ...
Contents
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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