Sentences with phrase «negroes who»

It is only in the past couple of years that Kentucky has paid even lip service to the idea of recruiting Negroes who could qualify, in the NCAA's lexicon, as «student - athletes.»

This is true of the awakening of the younger generation of Negroes who decided that they have taken conditions of deprivation and humiliation long enough, and some of them are tempted to believe no good of any white man.

During the war itself the Churches faced a problem that accompanied them until the present day — what were they to do with the Negroes who had been so unjustly treated for almost two centuries?

Like the American Negroes who adopted the word «black» from the enemy and flung it back, or the feminists who accept «witch» and «bitch» as badges of honor, Dobson and Hindson are in a mood and movement that take fundamentalism back as a banner for pride and boasting and wave it in the faces of the, in their view, waning evangelicals.

Black Snake Moan is the heartwarming tale of how a white - trash crack whore confronts her demons with the help of a backwoods negro who chains her to his radiator.

Not exact matches

... Suppose today Negroes do steal; who was it that for centuries made stealing a virtue by stealing their labor?»

The Virginia planter and Fire - Eater Edmund Ruffin, who in 1865 blew his brains out rather than live under Yankee rule, called Toussaint Louverture «the only truly great man yet known of the negro race.»

To illustrate, there are millions of Negroes in America and of Africans in South Africa who are denied their rights as persons and hence are unjustly treated.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who ought to have known better, will serve as an example: «it would be something monstrous to conceive this beautiful Venetian girl falling in love with a veritable negro.»

Today Negroes are the most readily organized group among those who feel the need for change.

Violence was piled on violence as Southerners reacted to those who wished to win equality for Negroes in American life.

Voices, both lay and clerical, were raised in behalf of Indians and Negroes and met with resistance from Europeans who profited by the enslavement of non-Europeans.

Gina Lopez who has the political will to go after destructive mining operations that poses threats to environment and people's health and livelihood,» Roberto Cordova, a farmer leader from Negros.

They are the ones who are profiting and gaining from our rice varieties» said Carlito Seguiro, MASIPAG's Chairperson and farmer - leader in the province of Negros.

Sirs: After Malcolm X's recent statement advocating use of guns by the nation's 20 million Negroes, I trust the genius who wrote The Black Muslim Hope item in your March 16 issue realizes the Black Muslim cult is far beyond being a religious issue.

Some felt it wasbecause he couldn't make the weight anymore, but Winkfield laughs at this.Others said the white jockeys were beginning to gang up on the Negroes — and itis true that this had a great deal to do with their virtual disappearance fromthe American racing scene — but Winkfield says he was always treated well.Colonel Chinn, who calls Winkfield «the finest colored man I ever knew, with a heart as big as all outdoors,» blames Jimmy's exodus on thelegislation that made racing illegal for several years in some of the easternstates and moved the big meetings to places like Butte, Mont, and Salt LakeCity and Hamilton, Ont.

Williams came in for criticism during the race from the Rev. Al Sharpton, who told supporters at a rally on Saturday, «you're supposed to be attracted to Negros you ain't never seen before.

In each of the major urban centers the story is the same: the better - off white families are moving out of the central cities into the suburbs; the ranks of the poor who remain are being swelled by Negroes from the South.

So the boisterous, outlandish, fiercely intelligent Django Unchained is at once an act of provocation and reparation — not just for slavery, but for Hollywood's decades of saintly Negroes and sass - talking sidekicks and its relentless whitewashing of history, from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner to The Help.

Loosely based on a true story, as documented in the «American Legacy» article by Tony Scherman, The Great Debaters centers on poet Melvin B. Tolson (Washington, American Gangster), who spent several years as a teacher of speech and English at all - negro Wiley College in the mid-1930s.

One such message, directed to LBJ, argued, «equal opportunity for Negroes [as promised in the War on Poverty and the 1964 Civil Rights Act] does not produce equal results — because the Negroes today are a grievously injured people who in fair and equal competition will by and large lose out.»

Negroes have been defined traditionally as all persons with any black African ancestry who can not «pass» as whites.

That assumption only collapsed in the fifth grade, when a project for what was then called Negro History Week led him to a book called «Great Negroes: Past and Present,» and its chapter on Charles White, a black artist who drew and painted African Americans.

WHO IS THE NEGRO ARTIST and what is his responsibility?

And he said it was because the woman who ran the American Center in Paris must have said 30 times: «He's a negro.»

Of course, defamatory or no, I'm hard pressed to have anything but the utmost contempt for people who use expressions like «house negro».

Again, in 1822, Rhode Island, in its revised code, passed a law forbidding persons who were authorized to join persons in marriage from joining in marriage any white person with any negro, Indian, or mulatto, under the penalty of two hundred dollars, and declaring all such marriages absolutely null and void, and the same law was again reenacted in its revised code of 1844.