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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... land all over with its energy and its courage . And yet , while in the El Dorado of which I have told you , but 15 percent of lands are cultivated , its mines scarcely touched , and its population so scant that , were it set equidistant ...
... land all over with its energy and its courage . And yet , while in the El Dorado of which I have told you , but 15 percent of lands are cultivated , its mines scarcely touched , and its population so scant that , were it set equidistant ...
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... land as a hired laborer , tenant farmer , or perhaps get his own land if he were fortunate . Or he could go North or West , which many did , only to encounter a rising wave of racism . In 1884 T. Thomas Fortune , editor of the New York ...
... land as a hired laborer , tenant farmer , or perhaps get his own land if he were fortunate . Or he could go North or West , which many did , only to encounter a rising wave of racism . In 1884 T. Thomas Fortune , editor of the New York ...
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... Land Office the warrant aforesaid . Report of the Senate Committee on Public Lands The Committee on Public Lands , to whom was referred the case of Sylvester Gray , a freeman of color , praying that a patent may issue to him for land ...
... Land Office the warrant aforesaid . Report of the Senate Committee on Public Lands The Committee on Public Lands , to whom was referred the case of Sylvester Gray , a freeman of color , praying that a patent may issue to him for land ...
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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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