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• Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing…
• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
• When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C.,…
• I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense…
• Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many…
• The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants,…
• When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue,…
• Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated…

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