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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... JOHN M. HARLAN Plessy v . Ferguson 105 JOHN R. WILLIAMS Immigrant and Negro Labor in the Coal Mines 137 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The Road to Negro Progress 142 JACOB RIIS The Color Line Among the New York Tenements 146 The Negro in the Post ...
... JOHN M. HARLAN Plessy v . Ferguson 105 JOHN R. WILLIAMS Immigrant and Negro Labor in the Coal Mines 137 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The Road to Negro Progress 142 JACOB RIIS The Color Line Among the New York Tenements 146 The Negro in the Post ...
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... John Brown died for black and white Ameri- cans at Harpers Ferry in 1859. ( Several Negroes were in John Brown's company of twenty - one men when he sought to capture arms to be used by a guerilla band . Two of these blacks , Shields ...
... John Brown died for black and white Ameri- cans at Harpers Ferry in 1859. ( Several Negroes were in John Brown's company of twenty - one men when he sought to capture arms to be used by a guerilla band . Two of these blacks , Shields ...
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... John Henry who is supposed to have met his death during the construction of the Big Bend Tunnel , in West Virginia , sometime around 1873. John Henry's job was to drive the steel drills into the rock to make holes for the blasting ...
... John Henry who is supposed to have met his death during the construction of the Big Bend Tunnel , in West Virginia , sometime around 1873. John Henry's job was to drive the steel drills into the rock to make holes for the blasting ...
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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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