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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... union officers . Yet it still remains that in times of industrial peace the more desirable places are closed against Negroes , either because the employers will not hire them or the men will not work with them . Negroes become ...
... union officers . Yet it still remains that in times of industrial peace the more desirable places are closed against Negroes , either because the employers will not hire them or the men will not work with them . Negroes become ...
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... Union's program . One of the Negroes , Isaac Myers , of the Colored Caulkers ' Trades ' Union Society , made a plea for unity among white and Negro workers . Since no real action followed the rather mild resolutions of the meeting ...
... Union's program . One of the Negroes , Isaac Myers , of the Colored Caulkers ' Trades ' Union Society , made a plea for unity among white and Negro workers . Since no real action followed the rather mild resolutions of the meeting ...
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... Union . I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution . The sooner the national authority can be restored , the nearer the Union will be " the Union as it was . " If there be those who would not save the Union unless they ...
... Union . I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution . The sooner the national authority can be restored , the nearer the Union will be " the Union as it was . " If there be those who would not save the Union unless they ...
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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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