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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... human beings . At a time when many of his colleagues still believed in the race theory , and moreover proclaimed the superiority of their own Caucasian race , Boas maintained that the only result of discussions of racial differences was ...
... human beings . At a time when many of his colleagues still believed in the race theory , and moreover proclaimed the superiority of their own Caucasian race , Boas maintained that the only result of discussions of racial differences was ...
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... human rights , we crave to understand what point in this line is the slave conceived to occupy . There are , no doubt , many rights which belong to other men- to Englishmen , to Frenchmen , to his master , for example - which are denied ...
... human rights , we crave to understand what point in this line is the slave conceived to occupy . There are , no doubt , many rights which belong to other men- to Englishmen , to Frenchmen , to his master , for example - which are denied ...
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... human laws have prohibited it as crime - if it stands in the same category with malice , murder , and theft , then we are willing , in the name of humanity , to renounce it , and to re- nounce it forever . But what if the overwhelming ...
... human laws have prohibited it as crime - if it stands in the same category with malice , murder , and theft , then we are willing , in the name of humanity , to renounce it , and to re- nounce it forever . But what if the overwhelming ...
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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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