We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.

Southern whites themselves are realizing that they had been wrong in using violence to try to stop Negroes from claiming equal rights.

If William wished to continue operations for a year, why not simply leave the Negroes undisturbed and pay them `` as high wages to remain there as are ever paid the labor of persons of their sex & age.

And the fact remains that there are today few shining examples of Negroes in positions of intellectual leadership.

It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).

Unless one takes refuge in the theory -- however disguised -- that Negroes are, somehow, different from white people, I do not see how one can escape the conclusion that the Negro's status in this country is not only a cruel injustice but a grave national liability.

It is a notion which contains a gratuitous insult, implying, as it does, that Negroes can make no move unless they are manipulated.

Negroes, Puerto Ricans, and rural newcomers are slowly making their way into the cities.

But an official statement adopted by the 33-man Emory board at its annual meeting Friday noted that state taxing requirements at present are a roadblock to accepting Negroes.

Said he: `` We will see whether whites and Negroes are treated the same around here ''.

African Americans ( also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes ) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or significant partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.

In 1900, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an editorial stating, " Negroes in the South are reported as being addicted to a new form of vice – that of ' cocaine sniffing ' or the ' coke habit.

* And you are lynching Negroes

The number of murders and assaults perpetrated upon Negroes is very great ; we can form only an approximative estimate of what is going on in those parts of the South which are not closely garrisoned, and from which no regular reports are received, by what occurs under the very eyes of our military authorities.

But I am particularly grateful to you, as are a number of my friends, both white and colored, for the dignified and decent treatment of Negroes in this scene.

A contemporary history described Rumley in the following way: " There are 400 Negroes ( half the population of Van Buren Township ) as prosperous as their white neighbors and equal to the whites in morals, religion and intelligence.

In a way we are like Negroes, who have a long record of oppression and misunderstanding, and we feel akin to them.

Lady's Island, the slave trade and the American Revolutionary War are the topics of an award-winning novel by the Canadian writer Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes ( 2007 ) ( published in the US as Someone Knows My Name ).

Abigail Adams, wife of the second President, had visited Mount Vernon two weeks earlier, and wrote: " Many of those who are liberated have married with what are called the dower Negroes, so that they all quit their connections, yet what could she do?

She mentions that “ ten thousand Negroes have been killed in cold blood, without the formality of judicial trial and legal execution ,” therefore launching her campaign against lynching in this pamphlet, The Red Record.

Gorham refused to accept money for slave property, but did he realize how much expense and trouble the transportation of his Negroes to the North involved??

and he asked me in perfect innocence, `` Why don't all the Negroes in the South move North ''??

I tried to explain what has happened, unfailingly, whenever a significant body of Negroes move North.

* July 25 – The Woolworth Company's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, the location of a sit-in that had sparked demonstrations by Negroes across the Southern United States, serves a meal to its first black customer.

In 1693, he and his fellow Keithians published An Exhortation & Caution to Friends Concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes, one of the earliest printed antislavery tracts in British North America.

:" Negroes in Detroit have deep roots in the community, compared with the more transient population of Negro ghettos in Harlem and elsewhere in the North.

It is enacted that all servants [...] which shall be imported into this country either by sea or by land, whether Negroes, Moors North Africans, mulattoes or Indians who and whose parentage and native countries are not Christian at the time of their first purchase by some Christian [...] and all Indians, which shall be sold by our neighboring Indians, or any other trafficking with us for slaves, are hereby adjudged, deemed and taken to be slaves to all intents and purposes any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding .”

William was adamant on one point: under no circumstances would he allow the Negroes to remain on the plantation with his and Henry's slaves if they were told of their coming freedom.

The drafters played on fears of “ drug-crazed, sex-mad negroes ” and made references to Negroes under the influence of drugs murdering whites, degenerate Mexicans smoking marijuana, and “ Chinamen ” seducing white women with drugs.

Before the Act was passed, on February 8, 1914 The New York Times published an article entitled " Negro Cocaine ' Fiends ' Are New Southern Menace: Murder and Insanity Increasing Among Lower-Class Blacks " by Edward Huntington Williams which reported that Southern sheriffs had increased the caliber of their weapons from. 32 to. 38 to bring down Negroes under the effect of cocaine.

Speaking at the Ninth National Women ’ s Rights Convention on May 12, 1859, Anthony asked " Where, under our Declaration of Independence, does the Saxon man get his power to deprive all women and Negroes of their inalienable rights?

" Believing that " The police mind is usually of a sadistic and homicidal trend ", he noted that they carried out the " ruthless punishment of symbolic scapegoats in the form of prostitutes, derelicts, Negroes, radicals, drunks, and other helpless and insignificant members of the nation indivisible " under the pretence of a country that had " liberty and justice for all.

His three novels are Some Great Thing ( 1992 ), Any Known Blood ( 1999 ) and The Book of Negroes ( 2007 ), which was published in the United States under the title Someone Knows My Name.

The Book of Negroes, published in the US under the title Someone Knows My Name, won the 2008 overall Commonwealth Writers ' Prize for Best Book, the 2007 Rogers Writers ' Trust Fiction Prize, the 2008 Evergreen Award from the Ontario Library Association, and CBC Radio's 2009 edition of Canada Reads, and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and was longlisted for the Giller Prize and the IMPAC Award.

To suggest, under the facts here presented, that there are not enough Negroes to warrant the cost of a school bus for them is only another way of saying that they are not entitled to equal services because they are Negroes.

Negroes in this life are denied the priesthood ; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty.

The Times characterized the publications as " vicious and apparently well financed ," mentioned " certain factions of the radical Socialist elements ," and reported it all under the headline: " Reds Try to Stir Negroes to Revolt.

It was under Saint-Palais ' watch that Mother Theodore Guerin started an orphanage in Vincennes, the monks from Einsiedeln, Switzerland came to found an abbey and seminary in southern Indiana, St. Ann's opened as a school for Negroes and the Holy See added a suffragan diocese in northern Indiana at Fort Wayne.

I once tried to describe to a very well-known American intellectual the conditions among Negroes in the South.

I know Negroes who prefer the South and white Southerners, because `` At least there, you haven't got to play any guessing games ''!!

Also, the state with the largest number of Negroes is New York -- not in the South at all.

" Wright further stated that " cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes of the South and other sections of the country ," even though there was no evidence to support this claim.

In addition, in 1758 the governor of South Carolina James Glen wrote: it has always been the policy of this government to create an aversion in them Indians to Negroes.

" Returning to Washington, he told a New York Post reporter the federal government could protect Negroes — it could send federal troops into the South.

Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states, “ the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled with “ a flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn ’ t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”

" The Louisville Defender, that city's African American newspaper, expressed similar sentiments in a December 1939 editorial: " hether Gaines has been bribed, intimidated or worse, should certainly have little permanent effect on the struggle for equal rights and social justice in connection with Negro education in the South ... Negroes are already hammering upon the doors of graduate schools hitherto closed to them, with increasing persistence.

Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion, New York: Norton, 1975.

The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans.

Upon receipt of the letter from Massachusetts Governor Briggs announcing Hoar's appointment, South Carolina Governor James H. Hammond promptly placed it before the South Carolina legislature, which issued several resolves, declaring the right of South Carolina to exclude its borders all persons whose presence might be considered dangerous ; denying that free Negroes were citizens of the United States, and for the Massachusetts commissioner:

In the southern portions of the region, there were also large and diverse non-Hispanic populations: The Highland Park, Arroyo Seco and El Sereno sections facing South Pasadena was known for a large Black community, as there are many African Americans including the former " Calle de Los Negroes " or the Chinese quarter ; Boyle Heights was heavily Armenian, Serbian, Jewish, Portuguese and Japanese ; Lincoln Heights was heavily Italian ; and finally the 1930s-era Okies colony of Mount Washington and Monte Sereno where many poor white farmers and American Indians settled, it is also where the Southwest Museum of the American Indian is located in the neighborhood where thousands of Native Americans were resettled by the BIA Urban Indians relocation program in the 1950s.

* 1974 – Peter H. Wood for Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion

* Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion ( 1996 )

* Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion ( 1996 )