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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... Constitution , to all citizens , may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases ; all that is required is that , in this respect , its laws shall be impartial . And yet this is the bill now returned with the President's objec ...
... Constitution , to all citizens , may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases ; all that is required is that , in this respect , its laws shall be impartial . And yet this is the bill now returned with the President's objec ...
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... constitution involves nothing of the original Nebraska doctrine . That struggle was made on a point - the right of a people to make their own constitution - upon which he and the Republicans have never differed . The several points of ...
... constitution involves nothing of the original Nebraska doctrine . That struggle was made on a point - the right of a people to make their own constitution - upon which he and the Republicans have never differed . The several points of ...
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... Constitution and laws of the state to the contrary notwithstanding . And if the states could limit or restrict them , or place the party in an inferior grade , this clause of the Constitution would be unmeaning and could have no ...
... Constitution and laws of the state to the contrary notwithstanding . And if the states could limit or restrict them , or place the party in an inferior grade , this clause of the Constitution would be unmeaning and could have no ...
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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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