Both of his parents were listed as Mulatto in Census records before and after their marriage ; according to Yerby he had a combination of Caucasian, Cherokee, and African-American ancestors, though in the 1930 and 1940 Censuses of the United States the family members were listed simply as ' Negro '.

Other examples of gradual changes that have affected the Negro have been his moving up, row by row, in the buses ; ;

His strong opposition to the transfer of Negro children to schools outside their own neighborhood, in the interest of integration, will be attacked by Negro leaders who have fought for, and achieved, this open or permissive enrollment.

The guessing games referred to have driven more than one Negro into the narcotics ward, the madhouse, or the river.

One question which inevitably crops up is whether such stations have a future in a nation where the Negro is moving into a fully integrated status.

And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet.

In flood-time it is said to have a second connection with the Rio Negro by a branch, which it throws off to the westward, called the Itinivini, which leaves it at a point about above its mouth.

The four pillars set up by Cão on his two voyages have all been discovered in situ, and the inscriptions on two of them from Cape Santa Maria and Cape Cross, dated 1482 and 1485 respectively, are still to be read and have been printed ; the Cape Cross padrão is now at Kiel ( replaced on the spot by a granite facsimile ); those from the Congo estuary and the more southerly Monte Negro are in the Museum of the Lisbon Geographical Society.

The " Royals " name may also have been selected as a respectful recognition of the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues and a nod to the Kansas City Blues franchises of the Western League and American Association.

As critics have established, the term ' Moor ' referred to dark-skinned people in general, used interchangeably with similarly ambiguous terms as ' African ', ' Ethiopian ', ' Negro ', and even ' Indian ' to designate a figure from Africa ( or beyond ).

John Donnelly Fage suggests that Takrur was formed through the interaction of Berbers from the Sahara and " Negro agricultural peoples " who were " essentially Serer " although its kings after 1000 CE might have been Soninke ( northern Mande ).

Usher boards and Women's Day committees of various religious congregations large and small, and even public service and social welfare organizations such as the National Council of Negro Women ( NCNW ) have produced cookbooks to fund their operations and charitable enterprises.

About African Americans, Roosevelt said, " I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent, but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have.

The editorial, titled " To Lynch Negro Tonight ", was said to have reported whites assembling that evening to lynch the teenage Rowland.

In his induction speech in 1966, Williams included a statement calling for the recognition of the great Negro Leagues players: " I've been a very lucky guy to have worn a baseball uniform, and I hope some day the names of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson in some way can be added as a symbol of the great Negro players who are not here only because they weren't given a chance.

After the publication of Robert Peterson's landmark book Only the Ball was White in 1970, the Hall of Fame found itself under renewed pressure to find a way to honor Negro league players who would have been in the Hall had they not been barred from the major leagues due to the color of their skin.

In the South, as might have been expected, this participation has been limited, and differential wages on the basis of race have been more or less effectively established ; but in the northern communities, particularly in the urban centers, the Negro has been afforded his first real opportunity for employment in white-collar occupations.

* Open or exoreic watersheds: they have exterior drainage ( into the sea ): Parana River, Uruguay River, Negro River.

These have included: W. T. Vernon School ( 1908 ), the Industrial Institute for the Deaf, Blind, and Orphans of the Colored Race ( 1909 ), Moton High School, and the State Training School for Negro Girls.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

The American-Negro Suite is in a sense an extension of the Cotton Club songs in that it is a collection of Negro songs, not for a night club, but for the concert stage.

Thoroughly modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by no means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen Corner ', ' judgement Day, ' Gabriel's Horn, and a frustrated devil -- with a few random hallelujahs thrown in for good measure.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

It labels the slums, especially the Negro slums, as dead-end streets for hundreds of thousands of youngsters.

She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

and core - Negro marriages are proscribed for core members ''.

The negative sanctions applied to core - Negro marriages for core members act as indicators of expected adherence to group norms.

Additionally, the proscription of core - Negro marriages for core families, discussed above, would seem to act as a regulative norm governing subgroups and roles.

In this respect it would seem that the greater the social distance between the Brandywine population and the white and Negro populations within the same general locality, the greater the possibility for higher morale and solidarity within the Brandywine population.

For the school year, 1959-1960, the Prince Edward County ( Virginia ) Board of Supervisors voted not to provide funds for public education, and the school board therefore could provide no public education -- for white or Negro children.

Early in the war it was not uncommon for planters' sons to retain in camp Negro `` body servants '' to perform the menial chores such as cooking, foraging, cleaning the quarters, shining shoes, and laundering clothes.

Miss Upton spoke gratefully of the response of Spelman graduates and Negro friends in helping to raise the Fund, and their continuing efforts to raise money for greatly needed current expenses.

The absence of successful Negroes in the world of scholarship and science has tended to tamp down enthusiasm among Negro youth for academic careers.

The Atlanta Negro student movement renewed its demands for movie theater integration Friday and threatened picketing and `` stand-ins '' if negotiations failed.

It is estimated that more than 600 stations ( of a total of 3,400 ) do a significant amount of programing for the Negro.

For 10 years Sponsor has issued an annual survey of the size and characteristics of the Negro market and of successful techniques for reaching this market through radio.

A half-dozen other stations in the New York area also bid for attention of the city's Negro population, up about 50 per cent in the past decade.

In, the team gained admission into their first organized league, the Negro National League.

Desegregation can also result from additional suits brought by Negro plaintiffs against school boards in Newport News, Fairfax County, Arlington County, and Norfolk.

" Negro organizations began a campaign to give Miller additional recognition.

Byrnes poured state money into improving Negro schools, buying new textbooks and new buses, and hiring additional teachers.

Lava flows advanced at a rate of 23 m / day, and it caused additional land damage as the lava poured from three of Cerro Negro ’ s craters, fountaining to heights of 30m into the air.