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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... never cease to assail the ears of their fellows so long as America is unjust . Any discrimination based simply on race or color is barbarous , we care not how hallowed it be by custom , expediency , or prejudice . Differences made on ...
... never cease to assail the ears of their fellows so long as America is unjust . Any discrimination based simply on race or color is barbarous , we care not how hallowed it be by custom , expediency , or prejudice . Differences made on ...
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Mortimer Jerome Adler. Negro Labor 1 ) . The fact is Negroes never made up as high as 90 percent of the strikebreakers , and July 1 were only about 5 percent . The bulk of Negro workmen never consisted of strikebreakers . Nor are Negroes ...
Mortimer Jerome Adler. Negro Labor 1 ) . The fact is Negroes never made up as high as 90 percent of the strikebreakers , and July 1 were only about 5 percent . The bulk of Negro workmen never consisted of strikebreakers . Nor are Negroes ...
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... never to interfere with these atrocities and never give a direc- tion to your military subordinates , which does not appear to have been conceived in the interest of slavery rather than of free- dom . . . VIII . On the face of this wide ...
... never to interfere with these atrocities and never give a direc- tion to your military subordinates , which does not appear to have been conceived in the interest of slavery rather than of free- dom . . . VIII . On the face of this wide ...
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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Abraham Lincoln Africa Afro-Americans alien American History American Negro bad treatment bill Carolina cause Chicago citizens citizenship civil rights condition Congress Constitution cotton Court crime cultural declared denied discrimination Dred Scott duty election emancipation equal federal feeling force Fourteenth Amendment free Negro freedman freedom further enacted Garvey Garveyism give hand hope human institutions justice Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan labor land leaders legislation legislature liberty Lincoln living low wages lynched Marcus Garvey matter ment migration million Mississippi Missouri Compromise mulatto nation Negro in American never North Northern officers opinion organization party peace persons political President principles privileges protection question racial Republican riots Section segregation Senate slave slaveholding slavery social soldiers South South Carolina Southern Supreme things tion troops Union United vote W. E. B. Du Bois Washington white race White Supremacy