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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... meets with no resis- tance , but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress . If he comes in ignorance , rags , and wretchedness , he conforms to the popular belief of his character , and in that charac ...
... meets with no resis- tance , but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress . If he comes in ignorance , rags , and wretchedness , he conforms to the popular belief of his character , and in that charac ...
Page 434
... meet the necessities of her manufacturers . One - sixth of the colored people of the United States are free ; but they shun the cotton regions , and have been instructed to detest emigration to Liberia . Their improvement has not been ...
... meet the necessities of her manufacturers . One - sixth of the colored people of the United States are free ; but they shun the cotton regions , and have been instructed to detest emigration to Liberia . Their improvement has not been ...
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... meet him fairly on this argument . Some poet has said : “ Fools rush in where angels fear to tread . " At the hazard of being thought one of the fools of this quotation , I meet that argument ; I rush in , I take that bull by the horns ...
... meet him fairly on this argument . Some poet has said : “ Fools rush in where angels fear to tread . " At the hazard of being thought one of the fools of this quotation , I meet that argument ; I rush in , I take that bull by the horns ...
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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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