Portrait of America: From Reconstruction to the presentHoughton Mifflin, 1978 |
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... Negro officeholders at all . Few Negroes were elected to higher offices ; none became the gov- ernor of a state . At various times South Caro- lina had a Negro lieutenant governor , secretary of state , treasurer , speaker of the house ...
... Negro officeholders at all . Few Negroes were elected to higher offices ; none became the gov- ernor of a state . At various times South Caro- lina had a Negro lieutenant governor , secretary of state , treasurer , speaker of the house ...
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... Negro . At that , neither got much of an education - during the same period California's rate was $ 115 per child . The depression only made matters worse . New Deal pump - priming rarely touched the Mississippi Negro . Through 1935 ...
... Negro . At that , neither got much of an education - during the same period California's rate was $ 115 per child . The depression only made matters worse . New Deal pump - priming rarely touched the Mississippi Negro . Through 1935 ...
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... Negro sexual prowess . Actually , there was little dan- ger . As that astute observer William J. Cash remarked , a Southern white woman had less chance of being raped by a Negro than of being struck by lightning . Yet there were ...
... Negro sexual prowess . Actually , there was little dan- ger . As that astute observer William J. Cash remarked , a Southern white woman had less chance of being raped by a Negro than of being struck by lightning . Yet there were ...
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Thunder in D Alexander Brown | 42 |
the West 5 Day of the Cattleman | 50 |
馨 7 The New Industrial Order | 84 |
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