What is more, some white (or at least non-Negro) artist have been quite adept in either their use of characteristically Negro styles, or their dealings with Negro motifs.
Justice seems to run to extremes: either we lynch a Negro in a bloody passion of the moment, or we salt away a man for such long a period that he comes to trial wearing a white veil like a bride.
They held that in the United States the reputation of being white opens the golden doors of opportunity, and disputed the statute's presumption that all Americans could be identified as either white or Negro.
"White residents, who will tolerate a few Negroes as neighbors, either willingly or unwillingly," Grodzins wrote nearly a half-century ago, "begin to move out when the proportion of Negroes in the neighborhood or apartment building passes a certain critical point.
Zúñiga did not consider either the Indians or the Negroes to be trustworthy, and estimated that only about 70 men of this entire force were actually prepared for a battle.
Before 1910, the books written by American Negroes were with some exceptions either a part of the general American literature or individual voices of Americans of Negro descent.
West Virginia was doing extremely well; out of the forty-four countins in the state in which there are Negroes, all but nine had either completely eliminated school segregation or made a start toward doing so.
"In schools with high Negro enrollments," the N.A.A.C.P. reported, "textbooks were either not available or so outmoded and in such poor condition as to be of no value".
I couldn't bear to see her sweat any longer and replied, "either is fine, just don't call me a Negro".
"[I]n the areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it's time for Negroes to defend themselves".
