| 1963 - 284 pages
...fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains...discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a Icnely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later,... | |
| Talcott Parsons - 1968 - 388 pages
...Martin Luther King, Jr., the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Negro protest leader, makes the point bluntly: "The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity . . . and finds himself an exile in his own land." INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATIONS But the Negro demands... | |
| David L. Lewis - 1978 - 492 pages
...fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later," the voice was louder now, the syllables more pronounced, "the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty... | |
| C. Eric Lincoln - 1970 - 294 pages
...differences between the two versions of the Dream had become pronounced. Whereas before, blacks were living "on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity," now "the developed industrial nations of the world" were "secure islands of prosperity in a seething... | |
| Bruce A. Rosenberg - 1988 - 328 pages
...years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains...prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have... | |
| William A. Dyrness - 1989 - 184 pages
...both Lincoln and the founders of our country: "One hundred years . . . [after Lincoln's proclamation], the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity." The architects of our republic, he went on, issued us all a promissory note "that all men would be... | |
| Margretta M. Styles, Patricia Moccia - 1993 - 376 pages
...fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains...prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have... | |
| Ronald T. Takaki - 1993 - 362 pages
...nightmare as I moved through the ghettos of the nation and saw black brothers and sisters perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity, and saw the nation doing nothing to grapple with the Negroes' problem of poverty." After the Watts... | |
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