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 73
... feel to be a problem ? they say , I know an excellent colored man in my town ; or , I fought at Mechanicsville ; or , Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil ? At these I smile , or am interested , or reduce the boiling to a ...
... feel to be a problem ? they say , I know an excellent colored man in my town ; or , I fought at Mechanicsville ; or , Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil ? At these I smile , or am interested , or reduce the boiling to a ...
Page 164
... feel for that race you cannot measure nor compre- hend . As I attest it here , the spirit of my old black mammy from her home up there looks down to bless , and through the tumult of this night steals the sweet music of her croonings as ...
... feel for that race you cannot measure nor compre- hend . As I attest it here , the spirit of my old black mammy from her home up there looks down to bless , and through the tumult of this night steals the sweet music of her croonings as ...
Page 179
... feels that the community fully recognizes that courts of justice are as much a refuge for him and as much a bulwark of his life and liberty as for the highest and the proudest , he can never feel sure of his position ; and as long as ...
... feels that the community fully recognizes that courts of justice are as much a refuge for him and as much a bulwark of his life and liberty as for the highest and the proudest , he can never feel sure of his position ; and as long as ...
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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