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a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American lif...more

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And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that is the yearning of men for a flag: for a unity th...more

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You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the ...more

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I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because ...more

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...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off into some unknown which I d...more

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Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, where black is white and white black, where the immora...more

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...out of the counterfeiting of the black American's identity [in blackface minstrelsy] there arises a profound doubt in the white man's mind as to th...more