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black workers. This group was known as the National Negro Congress. The National Negro Congress supported both the AFL and the CIO. However, it was more...

of European-American Protestant hymnody of England and colonial America. Here is more from Pitts: "The consensus among scholars of the Negro spiritual is...

Journal of Negro History. Washington, D.C: Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Inc., 1941. Pitre, Merline. Journal of Negro History...

the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed [by Congress] The constitution likewise prohibited the Confederate Congress from abolishing or limiting...

of white capitalist America were responsible for "the barbarous behavior of the American whites towards the negroes." In America, Berger argued, people...

"African-American" is a poor description. African American is a stupid euphamism from the 60s-70s that seems to have displaced "black" and "negro" in American...

Finlay). References to "black Americans" were changed to the accurate term, which is "free Negroes," who were not Americans since they could not vote. The...

African American pop. but also the Native American pop because it did. I have no interests taking away the impact it had on African Americans I just want...

movement deeply affected American society. Among its most important achievements were two major civil rights laws passed by Congress. These laws ensured constitutional...

entry for African-Americans in the Communist Party. This would focus less on the public work and more on theoretical debate on theNegro Question and internal...

the Republic in a detailed “Resolution on the Negro Question,” which he submitted to the Sixth Congress of Communist International (COMINTERN) of 1928...

other words, the Fair Labor Standards Act makes sure that employees are paid the current minimum wage, but it takes an Act of Congress to change that amount...

might be more reasonably titled "African-American Civil Rights (1896–1954)" or "Prehistory of the African-American Civil Rights Movement".) (Oh, and there's...

Could Rep. Dyer have had African American ethnicity? Was Sen. Overman stating that someone else, an African American, had written the bill other then...

forefront of American politics and social movements." Wagner, Margaret E., Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkelman. The Library of Congress Civil War Desk...

invoke the threat of "Negro domination". Turning to: "The Conservative Coalition ... largely controlled domestic legislation in Congress from 1937 to 1963"...

Pot, an influential study of American ethnicity which he co-authored with Nathan Glazer in 1963, followed by The Negro Family: The Case for National...

puzzlement or offense at the use of "African-American" by previously so-called "American Negroes," or "black Americans." And, dang, bwoi! You must have taken...

for the many kinds of gang labor needed on the big sailing ships. Gordon devoted a chapter in Folk-Songs of America to "Negro work songs from Georgia" (pp...