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Page 77
... person I have met . But the average white knows as much of this home life among Negroes as he knows of the fourth dimension . Most of them meet only uneducated Negro porters and laborers , while others associate with the lower class of ...
... person I have met . But the average white knows as much of this home life among Negroes as he knows of the fourth dimension . Most of them meet only uneducated Negro porters and laborers , while others associate with the lower class of ...
Page 86
... people in the New World is not only absurd , but pathetic . Look at the very large number of presumably white persons with distinctly Negroid features ! A little more pigment in their skins would make a radical change in their lives ...
... people in the New World is not only absurd , but pathetic . Look at the very large number of presumably white persons with distinctly Negroid features ! A little more pigment in their skins would make a radical change in their lives ...
Page 125
... people and noted how the white audience , persons of apparently the best class , were wrought to the highest pitch of enthusiasm over it , a supreme hatred for all white persons came to him , and that he was praying to God that one of ...
... people and noted how the white audience , persons of apparently the best class , were wrought to the highest pitch of enthusiasm over it , a supreme hatred for all white persons came to him , and that he was praying to God that one of ...
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