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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... Labor Union with Myers as its president . The new union issued the following platform on January 1 , 1870 , closely following the resolutions of the National Labor Union , but with greater emphasis on education and on equal rights of ...
... Labor Union with Myers as its president . The new union issued the following platform on January 1 , 1870 , closely following the resolutions of the National Labor Union , but with greater emphasis on education and on equal rights of ...
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... labor ; and we therefore recommend the study of political economy in all of our labor organizations as a means to understand the relationships of labor to capital and as a basis for the adjournment of many of the disputes that arise ...
... labor ; and we therefore recommend the study of political economy in all of our labor organizations as a means to understand the relationships of labor to capital and as a basis for the adjournment of many of the disputes that arise ...
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... labor of the tropics has been chiefly forced labor . Those who have not been forced to labor have remained idle . In- deed , idleness is the child of the tropics . Black men in the South are without doubt almost as lazy as the white men ...
... labor of the tropics has been chiefly forced labor . Those who have not been forced to labor have remained idle . In- deed , idleness is the child of the tropics . Black men in the South are without doubt almost as lazy as the white men ...
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR Nixon v Herndon | 10 |
WILLIAM PICKENS The Emperor of Africa | 20 |
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