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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... present attainment of the Negro of the younger generation , in cultural and artistic expression especially , and in the prospective social enlight- enment of our talented tenth , I should say that cultural recognition of the Negro was ...
... present attainment of the Negro of the younger generation , in cultural and artistic expression especially , and in the prospective social enlight- enment of our talented tenth , I should say that cultural recognition of the Negro was ...
Page 188
... present avowed and defended state of affairs peeled of its exteriors . Nothing but the habit , generations old , of enduring it could make it endurable by men not in actual slavery . Were we whites of the South to remain every way as we ...
... present avowed and defended state of affairs peeled of its exteriors . Nothing but the habit , generations old , of enduring it could make it endurable by men not in actual slavery . Were we whites of the South to remain every way as we ...
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... presents itself whether , when eleven of the thirty - six states are unrepresented in Congress at the present time , it is sound policy to make our entire colored population and all other excepted classes citizens of the United States ...
... presents itself whether , when eleven of the thirty - six states are unrepresented in Congress at the present time , it is sound policy to make our entire colored population and all other excepted classes citizens of the United States ...
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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