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This book focuses on the career of a single individual - an ambitious, resourceful black American - and his efforts to realize personal fulfillment in a racist world. No black American was more determined to realize the promise of American life following the Civil War, nor more frustrated by his inability to do so than John Lewis Waller.' A conspiracy is forming against the Negro in this country which has reached a larger and more gigantic proportion than many of us imagine. Race prejudice is on the increase . . . a cloud is gathering and increasing in size and unless averted by the Negro, will burst. . . . We are educating our children but when they are through with their schooling, what have they to do? The colored societies ar s in everything except protecting the race. . 1 . There is a conspiracy all over the North to drive the Negro from all the important marts of labor, and force phim to hold on to the minimal occupations'... The anarchist who places a bomb under the spacious courthouse and blows it to pieces and who marches through the street with a red flag, can nd a place for his boy in [the white mans] business house, manufactory or machine shop, immedi- ately after his r

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Author

Woods, Randall Bennett, 1944-

Publisher

Regents Press of Kansas, c1981.

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700631339

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir