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The lowest grade of professional politician we encounter in the South . . .
trades on ignorance. He is . . . owned by the local utility, or mill owner
or bank or oil interests. He makes emotional appeals to Southern
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I said, Look around. Nemacolin’s a dying town. There’re no jobs here. Kids are moving away
because there’s no future here. And here’s a man, Barack Obama, who’s going to fight for people
like us and you won’t vote for him because of the color of his skin.
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Among the distinguished group of writers that Christian met was
Arna Bontemps, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, and Margaret Walker.
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Rudolph Lewis and Amin Sharif, Editors I Am New Orleans and Other Poems by Marcus B. Christian
New Orleans: Xavier University Press, 1999, 112p
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Blacks, Unions, & Organizing in the South, 1956-1996
A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Compiled by Rudolph Lewis
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Labor’s Deeds Ignored in Schools
Chicago Union Teacher
(April 1956)
If you should ask your son or daughter what has made America great, you will be sure to hear that it is … Read the rest
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Then frightened black mothers were brought down to the jailhouse to whip their children
in front of the policemen to teach them not to fight white children. The alternative
was the reformatory, though not a single white child was rounded up.
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Books by John Oliver Killens
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Jazz is an extension of the black man, freed, who found himself still shackled to the
same chain, all shinned up, when he unwittingly ventured out into their free world of
opportunity and wealth, only to be assaulted, whipped, murdered, and raped some more
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Indiana University is a public university with a clear mission to serve constituencies in the state,
especially under-served constituencies like adult working people. Increasingly
public universities are functioning like private ones
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IU Labor Studies Under Attack
May 21, 2005
Dear Union Sisters & Brothers, Colleagues & Friends,
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Jackson maintained that: Forced voluntarism under penalty of eviction demeans
residents by saying they are lazy. It tells them that we do not trust them to take part
in their own communities, so we must force them to do so.
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Books by Ronald Walters
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Imagine a nation, days of absence from our animal selves, and the donning of our divinity, wherein
we hate each other no more, never again, the jealousy, the Willie Lynch syndrome,
Yacoubs children playing with steel, some genetic defect in our divine nature.
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This book also takes a quick lookbut only in two short chaptersat the history of
advertising in this press and the roles played by African-American magazines (which
is included in a chapter that also looks at radio and television). It is, without a doubt,
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