Sentences with phrase «southern negroes»

Panel 1, During the World War there was a great migration North by Southern Negroes.

JACOB LAWRENCE, «The Migration Series,» 1940 - 41, Panel 1: «During the World War there was a great migration North by Southern Negroes,» (casein tempera on hardboard).

From the first he urged the emancipation and enlistment of the Southern negroes, — a policy which was ultimately adopted with successful results; and when in 1864, at the darkest hour of the struggle, there was danger of a fatal compromise, he actively promoted that great mass meeting in the hall of the Cooper Union which marked the turning - point of the struggle, carried the State of New York for Lincoln, and secured the triumph of the Union.

Henceforth, on those terms, southern schools will recruit other southern Negroes.

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If the Puritans lashed Quakers and hung «witches,» the Southern gentlemen exploited, lashed, and hung recalcitrant negroes — as in a more subtle way the burgeoning commercial - industrial upper classes of the North exploited and abused the newly emergent industrial working classes of immigrants and poor whites, especially in the growing cities of the Northeast.

Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were not alone in their struggle to win equal rights for Negroes.

From the time of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, Southern states had found one means after another to deny Negroes the possibility of voting.

In recent years some advance steps have been made, as in the opening of Pullman cars and diners to Negroes, elimination of segregation in the armed forces, and the admission of Negroes to some southern state universities.

Portending a shift in the balance of power in college sports, the Southeastern Conference voids its gentleman's agreement on segregation while other southern schools step up their recruiting of Negroes

Cebuano is the native language spoken by the inhabitants of Cebu, Bohol, eastern part of Negros islands, west parts of Leyte, Biliran Islands and southern part of Masbate island.

It is one of those Southern towns where decent folks get along fine with the Negroes, but the racist rednecks are forever driving up in their pickups and waving shotguns around and causing trouble.

In 1949, Biggers accepted a position as an instructor at Alabama State Teachers College in Montgomery, but moved to Houston, Texas, in August to establish and serve as department head of the Art Department at Texas State University for Negroes (later Texas Southern University), where he spent over thirty years of his career.