There is nothing you can do for Negroes".
After graduation he taught school & organized Georgia's first public high school for Negroes & the Georgia State Industrial College for Negroes.
The state legislature established the institution in 1947 as Texas State University for Negroes, replacing Houston College for Negroes, which had been founded in 1927.
For much of the twentieth century, civil rights for Negroes weren't even on the liberal agenda.
And the Master's disgust for Negroes and the "rich city dweller of sweatshop origin" was virulent and unashamed.
In 1934, her ardor for the cause of equality for Negroes, which dominated the rest of her life, resulted in a gigantic 855-page anthology called "Negro".
Near Comfort's Tea Water Well, on the site of No. 10 West Street, was a low groggery for Negroes, kept by a shoemaker, a white man named Hughson.
Beginning in the forties, at least part of the civil-rights movement devoted itself primarily to demanding more and better jobs for Negroes outside the segregated South.
