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In May 1905, Robert S. Abbott started publishing the Chicago Defender. The paper attacked racial injustice, particularly lynching in the south. The Defender did not use the words "Negro" or "black" in its pages. Instead, African Americans were referred to as "the Race" and black men and women as "Race men and Race women." Many places in the south effectively banned the paper, especially when, during World War I, Abbott actively tried to convince southern...
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This book was originally published in 1943 with the title "New World A-Coming: Inside Black America." Roi Ottley won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction in 1944 for "New World A-Coming: Inside Black America."
An Excerpt from the review of the book in the New York Times, August 10, 1943
From Books of the Times
by John Chamberlain
THIS is a war for democracy," says the anti-Hitler white American. "Brother," said the Negro,...
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