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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Page 127
... requiring railways to provide separate accom- modations for the two races will also authorize them to require separate cars to be provided for people whose hair is of a certain color , or who are aliens , or who belong to certain ...
... requiring railways to provide separate accom- modations for the two races will also authorize them to require separate cars to be provided for people whose hair is of a certain color , or who are aliens , or who belong to certain ...
Page 132
... require sheriffs to assign whites to one side of a courtroom and blacks to the other ? And why may it not also pro- hibit the commingling of the two races in the galleries of legislative halls or in public assemblages convened for the ...
... require sheriffs to assign whites to one side of a courtroom and blacks to the other ? And why may it not also pro- hibit the commingling of the two races in the galleries of legislative halls or in public assemblages convened for the ...
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... require , what we think we have a right to expect , and of what we complain . I. We require of you , as the first servant of the republic , charged especially and pre - eminently with this duty , that you EXECUTE THE LAWS . Most ...
... require , what we think we have a right to expect , and of what we complain . I. We require of you , as the first servant of the republic , charged especially and pre - eminently with this duty , that you EXECUTE THE LAWS . Most ...
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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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