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(1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July”
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(1809) William Hamilton, “Mutual Interest, Mutual Benefit and Mutual Relief”
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2
1809
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An African native once kept in a Bronx zoo, Ota Benga, commits suicide. In 1906 the crowds thronged the monkey house exhibit at the Bronx Zoo (New York Zoological Park). Here were mans evolutionary ancestors - monkeys, chimpanzees, a gorilla named Dinah, an orangutan named Dohung and a African of
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20
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(1845) Frederick Douglass, “My Slave Experience in Maryland”
Frederick Douglass described his early life in an address titled, “My Slave Experience in Maryland, in a speech delivered in New York City on May 6, 1845. The speech, which was reprinted in the National Antislavery Standard on May 22, 1845, appears below. Douglass had just completed his first
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3
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(1921) Marcus Garvey “Address to the Second UNIA Convention”
By 1921 the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was well on its way to becoming the largest predominately black organization in the world.  Marcus Garvey, the UNIAs founder, however, already recognized W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP as its chief rival.  In his closing night speech to the
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(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”
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8
1879
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27
1917
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The Passing of Passing: A Peculiarly American Racial Tradition Approaches Irrelevance
In the article below, independent scholar Robert Fikes Jr., explores a centuries-old process in the United States where African Americans with no visible African ancestry “pass” into the Caucasian race or other races to avoid the stigma associated with anti-black racial discrimination
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1882
(1851) Sojourner Truth “Ar'nt I a Woman?”
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Kateb Yacine
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(1919) William Pickens, “The Kind of Democracy the Negro Expects”
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(1963) Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, "Religion and Race"
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14
1963
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