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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... citizen , discriminate against freemen or citizens in those rights because of their race or because they once labored under the disabilities of slavery imposed upon them as a race . The rights which Congress , by the act of 1875 ...
... citizen , discriminate against freemen or citizens in those rights because of their race or because they once labored under the disabilities of slavery imposed upon them as a race . The rights which Congress , by the act of 1875 ...
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... citizens in the several states , became also citizens of this new political body ; but none other ; it was formed by them and for them and their posterity , but for no one else . And the personal rights and privileges guaranteed to citizens ...
... citizens in the several states , became also citizens of this new political body ; but none other ; it was formed by them and for them and their posterity , but for no one else . And the personal rights and privileges guaranteed to citizens ...
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... citizens . So , too , a person may be entitled to vote by the law of the state who is not a citizen even of the state itself . And in some of the states of the Union foreigners not naturalized are allowed to vote . And the state may ...
... citizens . So , too , a person may be entitled to vote by the law of the state who is not a citizen even of the state itself . And in some of the states of the Union foreigners not naturalized are allowed to vote . And the state may ...
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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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