The Negro Question (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

George W. Cable

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331239532 ISBN 13 : 9781331239536

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A clear, timely examination of race, rights, and power in America—what the country owes its seven million Black citizens and how it might meet that duty.

This edition presents the central questions, contrasts in regional attitudes, and the political mechanics that keep or change civil rights in the United States. It highlights how constitutional design, state power, and public opinion shape the path toward equality, with practical ideas for action that respect democratic processes.

• How rights for Black Americans have evolved across the nation and what remains contested.


• How state and federal power interact in shaping civil rights protections and limits.


• Proposed steps for individuals and communities to advance equal civil rights in practical terms.


• The role of leadership, public debate, and political strategy in pursuing justice.

Ideal for readers of American history, civil rights policy, and political thought who want a grounded look at the challenges and proposed paths to a more just society.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

North and South, respond not so often with a flat contradiction as with a declaration far more disconcerting. For the Southerner speaks truly when he retorts that nowhere in the entire Union, either North or South, are the disadvantages of being a black, or partly black, man confined entirely to the relations of domestic life and private society; but that in every part there is a portion, at least, of the community that does not claim for, or even willingly yield to, the negro, the whole calendar of American rights in the same far-reaching amplitude and sacredness that they do for, or to, the white man. The Southern white man points to thousands of Northern and Western factories, counting-rooms, schools, hotels, churches and guilds, and these attest the truth of his countercharge. Nowhere in the United States is there a whole community from which the black man, after his physical, mental and moral character have been duly weighed, if they be weighed at all, is not liable to suffer an unexplained discount for mere color and race, which he would have to suffer publicly in no other country of the enlightened world. This being the fact, then, in varying degrees according to locality, what does it prove? Only that this cannot be the real point of issue between North and South, and that this superficial definition is not the true one. Putting aside mere differences of degree, the question is not, A re these things so? but, Ought they so to be? To this a large majority in the Northern States from all classes, with a small minority of the Southern whites, also from all ranks of life, and the whole seven million blacks, irrespective of party leanings, answer No. On the other hand, a large majority of the whites in the Southern States large as to the white population of those States, but a very small minority in the Nation at large answer a vehement Yes; these things
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Présentation de l'éditeur

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331239532
• ISBN 13: 9781331239536
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 183
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