Sentences with phrase «of negroes»

At one point in America, there was a government department to administer the purchase and sale of Negroes.

I have also wondered about Lawrence Hill's wonderful novel The Book of Negroes, how it was retitled as Someone Knows My Name for the U.S. market.

«In the 1920s, during the time of the great migration of Negroes from the South to the big cities, my grandmother ran a boarding house in Pittsburgh.

An image of «Three Folk Musicians» in the catalog is captioned in Bearden's own words: «In the 1920s, during the time of the great migration of Negroes from the South to the big cities, my grandmother ran a boarding house in Pittsburgh.

It was his third novel, The Book of Negroes (2007)-- published in some countries as Someone Knows My Name and in French as Aminata — that attracted widespread attention in Canada and other countries.

For example, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes in Canada and Someone Knows My Name in the United States.

In Mexico, except for the concentration of Negroes in the coastal areas and the capital during colonial times, there have been no major regional concentrations of people of different racial groups.

Titles from HarperCollins include Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes and Any Known Blood; Tish Cohen's The Truth about Delilah Blue; Gail Vaz - Oxlade's Debt - Free Forever; a special edition of Katherine Govier's The Ghost Brush; General Rick Hillier's A Soldier First; Theo Fleury's Playing with Fire and Shilpi Somaya Gowda's Secret Daught.

Lawrence Hill is the author of ten books including the novels The Book of Negroes and The Illegal, and the non-fiction books Blood: the Stuff of Life, and Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning.

In 1944, Coach John McLendon, of the North Carolina College of Negroes, invited players from the Duke University Medical School, an all - white team, to play a «secret game» in his college's gym.

About the Author: Lawrence Hill is the author of the novels Any Known Blood (1999), Some Great Thing (1992) and The Book of Negroes (2007)(Someone Knows My Name in USA) and the non-fiction works Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (2001); Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Women's Association (1996) and Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African - Canadians (1993).

BookBrowse note: Originally published in Canada as The Book of Negroes, published in the USA as Someone Knows My Name.

In Manhattan, Aminata helps pen the Book of Negroes, a list of blacks rewarded for service to the king with safe passage to Nova Scotia.

Game Changer explores a historical milestone: On March 12, 1944, members of the white Duke University Medical School team played a secret, illegal game against a black team from the North Carolina College of Negroes in segregated North Carolina.

Starring DeWanda Wise (Shots Fired) in the central role of Nola Darling, a Brooklyn - based artist in her late twenties struggling to define herself and divide her time amongst her Friends, her Job and her Three Lovers: Greer Childs played by Cleo Anthony (Divergent), Jamie Overstreet played by Lyriq Bent (The Book of Negroes), and Mars Blackmon played by Hamilton alum Anthony Ramos.

Although history obviously mixes with fiction, there's enough here left under - covered by traditional textbooks to make The Book of Negroes an intriguing window into the period.

As the Louisiana statutes for holding primaries are similar to those of Texas, our ruling in Classic as to the unitary character of the electoral process calls for a reexamination as to whether or not the exclusion of Negroes from a Texas party primary was state action.

Which is to say, ever since Dr Johnson asked, «How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?»

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

Some of the negroes would be tending the roasting flesh; some with the swab, basting with the seasoning; some laughing loud enough to wake the sleeping echoes; some lazily stretched out on the ground thinking of tomorrow's feast.

Col. White has not had a single case of cholera among his large gang of negroes since the disease appeared in the south.

Informed opinion, however, agrees with Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma that there is a vicious circle at this point.8 Denied the cultural, educational, and economic advantages held by others, underprivileged groups tend to remain in this status, as in America the restriction of Negroes to unskilled labor and meager educational facilities has prevented their advancement to positions of leadership comparable with the more privileged.

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.

Similarly the Christian conscience sought to ameliorate the lot of the Negroes.

Efforts, however, are being made to correct it by encouraging the development of a kind of ministry which will overcome some of the common defects, by improving the caliber of professional education available to Negroes and by enrolling an increasing number of Negroes in interracial seminaries.29

His public thinking about the faith was designed to persuade white Christians to take seriously the humanity of Negroes.

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.

Priests, ministers, and rabbis all marched arm in arm to protest against the brutality and to demonstrate for the right of Negroes to vote.

They believed that conversion to radical Christian ideals entailed repudiation of all unjust structures of government, including those which subjugated women or which countenanced the enslavement of Negroes.

He ridiculed King's 1963 «I have a dream» speech: «While King was having a dream, the rest of us Negroes are having a nightmare.»

There it was the faith of the European settlers and their descendants and was accepted by the majority of the Indians and by many of the Negroes.

The Christianity of the United States not only spread to the Indians and to the much larger body of Negroes.

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.

At last his second in command, William Sullivan, wrote his boss a memo that opened the door: «I believe [King] stands head and shoulders over all other Negro leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of Negroes.

Television, in particular, was found to have presented violence in simplistic terms — depicting «a visual three - way alignment of Negroes, white bystanders, and public officials or enforcement agents,» which tended to create the impression that the riots were predominantly racial confrontations between blacks and whites, while factors such as economic and political frustration were pushed into the background.

What such comparisons fail to take into consideration is the effect of the Negroes» inferior average social, economic, and educational position upon their intellectual development.

Soon the various missionary agencies of the Church heard of the Negroes» plight, and they responded by forming private agencies to care for the freedmen.

The Book of Negroes, starring Louis Gossett Jr., Cuba Gooding Jr. and Aunjanue Ellis, airs Wednesday nights on CBC until Feb. 11 and on CBC.ca.

Academy Award — winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. is starring in the CBC miniseries The Book of Negroes.

You won an Emmy for Roots, and now you're starring in The Book of Negroes.

I worked with [the young Canadian actor] Lyriq Bent on Book of Negroes.

Or rather, perhaps in his celebration of the negro spiritual, he was speaking about music which rises above the «color line» in the same way that he says Shakespeare and Goethe do.

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.»

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.

This is very good news to us» said Carlito Seguiro, MASIPAG Chairperson and farmer - leader in the province of Negros Occidental.

It's pure chemicals... Never heard of negro modelo.

The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law; for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the negro group.

Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial [ly] integrated school system.

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.

«The story of the negro in America, is the story of America.»