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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... crime . With the exception of the Daily News , all of the papers of Chicago have played up in prominent style with glaring , prej- udice - breeding headlines every crime or suspected crime commit- ted by Negroes . Headlines such as ...
... crime . With the exception of the Daily News , all of the papers of Chicago have played up in prominent style with glaring , prej- udice - breeding headlines every crime or suspected crime commit- ted by Negroes . Headlines such as ...
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... crime and stern condemnation of the incredible villainy and com- plicity of the constituted authorities of Georgia in the commission of this monstrous outrage , which out - barbarized barbarism and stained through and through with ...
... crime and stern condemnation of the incredible villainy and com- plicity of the constituted authorities of Georgia in the commission of this monstrous outrage , which out - barbarized barbarism and stained through and through with ...
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... crime and wash off the hated color to escape punishment . In many places where the commission of crime is alleged against one of our color , the ordinary processes of the law are set aside as too slow for the impetuous justice of the ...
... crime and wash off the hated color to escape punishment . In many places where the commission of crime is alleged against one of our color , the ordinary processes of the law are set aside as too slow for the impetuous justice of the ...
Contents
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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