Sentence examples for from negro from inspiring English sources

"I look at the imagination as a way of escape, from Negro spirituals to hip-hop, Phillis Wheatley to Public Enemy".

The corps did attempt to answer questions about how the change from Negro Hill occurred by recently releasing more than a dozen documents, dating from 1951 to 1961.

YOGI BERRA MUSEUM All-Timee All-New Jersey Black Team From Negro and Major Leagues," program honoring the state's black baseball players.

There were some anxious moments over Lady Bird Johnson's childhood: "Aside from Negro playmates," wrote Caro, "her mother was her only companion".

The poem contains lines which might receive an answering echo from Negro protest songs: Old work-whore, slave- blood, who stepped fair hills under each bidder's eye... how you draw me into your trail.

In a series of articles for Vanity Fair, Van Vechten argued that the blues deserved "the same serious attention that has tardily been awarded to the Spirituals," and he introduced readers to W. C. Handy, the songwriter who popularized the blues, and to Hughes, whose poems drew inspiration from Negro vernacular culture.

They bought from Negroes records that were of interest to collectors but were no longer of interest to Negroes.

"I still get about twenty-five letters a day from Negroes," he said.

When Tibbett gave it on radio received many angry letters from negroes objecting to word nigger, says darky now.

Most generally our reliable news is gathered from negroes, and they certainly show wisdom, discretion and prudence which is wonderful".

Throughout the Southeast there have always been communities of people who constitute a third race, usually discriminated against by whites and almost always segregating themselves from Negroes.