Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred YearsD. C. Heath, 1975 - 558 pages |
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... white women from black rapists , but there was a broader purpose behind extralegal punishment . Intimidation of " uppity Nigras , " the reasoning ran , would help preserve white supremacy . The thinking that justified lynching was ...
... white women from black rapists , but there was a broader purpose behind extralegal punishment . Intimidation of " uppity Nigras , " the reasoning ran , would help preserve white supremacy . The thinking that justified lynching was ...
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... white - collar workers , especially when compared with a decline in the number of persons engaged in certain types of blue - collar and service occupations . At the turn of the century less than one - fifth of the employed population ...
... white - collar workers , especially when compared with a decline in the number of persons engaged in certain types of blue - collar and service occupations . At the turn of the century less than one - fifth of the employed population ...
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... white participants in the civil rights movement , he suggested , there was always the presumption that it was the Negro who had become - or would become equal . Thus the efforts of white participants in the movement " overwhelmingly ...
... white participants in the civil rights movement , he suggested , there was always the presumption that it was the Negro who had become - or would become equal . Thus the efforts of white participants in the movement " overwhelmingly ...
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Times and Tensions of a Developing Industrial Society | 5 |
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