Mississippi: a Documentary HistoryUniv. Press of Mississippi - 339 páginas |
Contenido
Chapter 10 | 189 |
The Great Depression and New Deal | 209 |
Chapter 12 | 229 |
Chapter 13 | 252 |
Chapter 14 | 275 |
Chapter 15 | 297 |
Notes | 317 |
Index | 331 |
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Página 243 - Such considerations apply with added force to children in grade and high schools. To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Página 101 - The reverse may bring disaster on every portion of the country; and if you will have it thus, we will invoke the God of our fathers, who delivered them from the power of the lion, to protect us from the ravages of the bear...
Página 98 - I hope none who hear me will confound this expression of mine with the advocacy of the right of a State to remain in the Union, and to disregard its constitutional obligations by the nullification of the law. Such is not my theory. Nullification and secession, so often confounded, are indeed antagonistic principles.
Página 99 - ... denying that each State is a sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever. I, therefore, say I concur in the action of the people of Mississippi, believing it to be necessary and proper, and should have been bound by their action if my belief had been otherwise ; and this brings me to the important point which I wish, on this last occasion, to present to the Senate. It is by this confounding of nullification and secession, that the name of a great man,...
Página 231 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Página 100 - Had the Declaration announced that the negroes were free and equal, how was the Prince to be arraigned for stirring up insurrection among them...
Página 156 - Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee...
Página 98 - It is known to Senators who have served with me here, that I have for many years advocated, as an essential attribute of State sovereignty, the right of a State to secede from the Union...
Página 321 - We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, "That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the...
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