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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Page 130
... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws . " These two amendments , if enforced ... denied on account of his race the privilege of participat- ing in the political control of his country , it was ...
... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws . " These two amendments , if enforced ... denied on account of his race the privilege of participat- ing in the political control of his country , it was ...
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... deny to any of them the equal pro- tection of the laws . Under the Thirteenth Amendment , the legisla- tion , so far as necessary or proper to eradicate all forms and in- cidents of slavery and involuntary servitude , may be direct and ...
... deny to any of them the equal pro- tection of the laws . Under the Thirteenth Amendment , the legisla- tion , so far as necessary or proper to eradicate all forms and in- cidents of slavery and involuntary servitude , may be direct and ...
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... deny to persons whose rights are secured by the first section of the bill any one of those rights , all criminal and ... denies to a colored person any one of all those rights , that person should commit a crime against the laws of a ...
... deny to persons whose rights are secured by the first section of the bill any one of those rights , all criminal and ... denies to a colored person any one of all those rights , that person should commit a crime against the laws of a ...
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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Abraham Lincoln Africa Afro-Americans alien American History American Negro bad treatment bill Carolina cause Chicago citizens citizenship civil rights condition Congress Constitution cotton Court crime cultural declared denied discrimination Dred Scott duty election emancipation equal federal feeling force Fourteenth Amendment free Negro freedman freedom further enacted Garvey Garveyism give hand hope human institutions justice Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan labor land leaders legislation legislature liberty Lincoln living low wages lynched Marcus Garvey matter ment migration million Mississippi Missouri Compromise mulatto nation Negro in American never North Northern officers opinion organization party peace persons political President principles privileges protection question racial Republican riots Section segregation Senate slave slaveholding slavery social soldiers South South Carolina Southern Supreme things tion troops Union United vote W. E. B. Du Bois Washington white race White Supremacy