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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... Washington's Atlanta speech has been called the Atlanta Compromise . Clearly it was in tune with the thought of the nation's white majority , to whom Washington became a hero and leader of Negroes . Influential men in the white world ...
... Washington's Atlanta speech has been called the Atlanta Compromise . Clearly it was in tune with the thought of the nation's white majority , to whom Washington became a hero and leader of Negroes . Influential men in the white world ...
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... WASHINGTON Easily the most striking thing in the history of the American Negro since 1876 is the ascendancy of Mr. Booker T. Washington . It began at the time when war memories and ideals were rapidly passing ; a day of astonishing ...
... WASHINGTON Easily the most striking thing in the history of the American Negro since 1876 is the ascendancy of Mr. Booker T. Washington . It began at the time when war memories and ideals were rapidly passing ; a day of astonishing ...
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... Washington's program practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races . Again , in our own land , the reaction from the sentiment of war- time has given impetus to race prejudice against Negroes , and Mr. Washington ...
... Washington's program practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races . Again , in our own land , the reaction from the sentiment of war- time has given impetus to race prejudice against Negroes , and Mr. Washington ...
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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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