227 Quotes About Black-history

Antiblack violencein Chicago was common since at least the 189-s, when blacks were brought in as strikebreakers. The violence grew with the black population. In the two years leading up to mid-July 1919, whhites bombed more than twenty-five homes and properties owned by blacks in white areas...One bombing killed a little girl...The police never arrested anyone, infuriating blacks.

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.

The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under.

Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.

The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly handled. Slaves were simply declared free and then left to their own devises. Southern Negroes, powerless, continued to be underprivileged in education, medical care, job opportunities and political status.

They are willing to make almost any sacrifice to obtain a railroad ticket, and they left with the intention of staying.

Anybody, no matter who they were, could come right off the boat and get more rights and respect than amerikan-born Blacks.

This was why your grandparents banned Tarzan and the Lone Ranger and toys with white faces from the house. They were rebelling against the history books that spoke of black people only as sentimental "firsts"--first black five-star general, first black congressman, first black mayor--always presented in the bemused manner of a category of Trivial Pursuit.

If British were Black world would be using 'Skin Darkening Creams