Both white people and Negroes—even including Muslims— would make me uncomfortable, always giving me so much credit for the steady progress that the Nation of Islam was making. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually he hailed some passing Negro from the street to crank the car for him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was convinced that we had a rare chance to build a genuine Negro theater. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pastor George held a separate rally for Negroes at Dunbar Community Center the same evening. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jackie Robinson proved the Negro can play,” he said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro does not understand the white any more than the white understands the Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All I could tell about that body was that it was human; it was in such bad shape, I couldn’t even be sure if it was white or Negro.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The old Negro’s face was in his mind and some of the words they had said came back to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Many times she had seen him in the grocery store waiting his turn in line behind Negroes and God knows what. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t northern agitators who pushed Negroes to question their country, as so many southern whites wanted to believe. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There are only about thirty of us in all, mostly Negroes, with a few of the younger roughnecks to round out the ranks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I was the only one who knew for a fact that Lily didn’t want to go to Spelman, the college for Negro women. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They went to see movies at the Hampton Institute theater, comfortably mingling at the Negro school. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A string of bestselling books warned of the dangers of tissue culture: one predicted that 70 percent of babies would soon be grown in culture; another imagined tissue culture producing giant “Negroes” and two-headed toads. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

What I thought I was seeing there in Roxbury were high-class, educated, important Negroes, living well, working in big jobs and positions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that the great lack of most of the big-named “Negro leaders” was their lack of any true rapport with the ghetto Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a curling, fading copy of the Forest City Courier glued on the back wall was an article about the local literary club who discussed “The Negro in Literature” at one of their meetings. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They are making a careful search of all abandoned buildings, which are said to be hideouts for Negro criminals. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wells’s stories now turned to exposing the gruesome wave of murder rolling across the South—as Ida called it, an excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of fixing things for the Negro race, Richard Nixon would win the war in Vietnam, clean up the country of its long-haired, drug-smoking hippies, and get those black militants and bean-pie-selling “Mooslims” in line. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Police and vigilantes, armed with rifles, tear gas, flashlights, and photos of the killer, began at 18th Street this morning and are searching every Negro home under a blanket warrant from the Mayor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like when she said, “Negroes and flies. The more she was around Negroes, the more she liked flies.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I was talking about the—you know, the trashy people. The men who keep Negro women and that kind of thing.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“What does she wear, linsey-woolsey and a Negro cap?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Believe me when I tell you that those Negroes were in bad shape then. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, in turn, Negroes have no respect for the whites they get into bed with. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not trying to fight you with my writing. I’ve no political ambitions. I’m not trying to hurt or help any particular comrade. You must believe that. I’m trying to depict Negro life.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately, black elites recognized the opportunity for the individual and collective advancement of Negroes who could present themselves favorably to whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And I had exclaimed to myself how different this was from the way in which Negroes were sneered at in America. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in and out of many Negro homes each day and I knew that the Negroes were lost, ignorant, sick in mind and body. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short time later, the driver evicted the black passengers, announcing that service wouldn’t continue into the town’s Negro area. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Besides, Negroes made it difficult for regular folks like herself to get work. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know now, of course, that what I was really seeing was only a big-city version of those “successful” Negro bootblacks and janitors back in Lansing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And the Negro. Do not forget the Negro. So far as I and my people are concerned the South is Fascist now and always has been.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He little noted the notice that was taken of Negroes who moved about the camp at night. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘Today we are to confer the five-dollar award upon the high-school student who wrote the best essay on the topic, “My Ambition: How I Can Better the Position of the Negro Race in Society.” The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t yet know that these weren’t what you might call everyday or average Harlem Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One statue in the Boston Commons astonished me: a Negro named Crispus Attucks, who had been the first man to fall in the Boston Massacre. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear Mrs. Malloy say, “Negroes might not be hanging from trees here, but there is still sorrow and injustice.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The palm tree dance began again among the Negroes in the back. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Du Bois about whether—and to what extent—racial bias and discrimination were responsible for the plight of the Negro and ought to be challenged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I left the Negro shack, I was swinging a big old leaky enamel bucket with a cupful of grits in the bottom of it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A Negro college in D.C. sounds like bait in the lion’s mouth, if you ask me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance around the Negro tables and realize a few of those folks are as well. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Negro was sitting with his back toward me, humming something in calypso. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1935, in Lansing, Negroes didn’t have anything you could call a profession. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, no one is going to miss the Negroes from the fence team, but Mr. Spencer and these other white folks? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Austin reflected and helped forge the uncompromising position of most black North Carolinians toward Hodges’ plan: “The Negroes of this state will not be stampeded into such an unholy scheme,” he wrote. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that nothing could touch him to have mercy once he decided a Negro should be “taught a lesson.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Human redemption— Malcolm had achieved it in his own lifetime, and this was known to the Negro community. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was a body, a corpse, when they hauled it away, because they recognized him as a Negro. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No; no ” “Didn’t you promise to contact the Negro to see if he was grateful enough to join the Communist Party?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, it was easy to count the number of words the Negro engineer on Mission Impossible spoke as well as the black POW on Hogan’s Heroes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A hanging? Who—" "It's against the law for a Negro to kiss a white woman." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The treatment accorded the Negro during the Second World War marks, for me, a turning point in the Negro’s relation to America. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Now, walking the same streets as a Negro, I found no trace of the Mobile I formerly knew, nothing familiar. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the Negroes hurried to the rest rooms. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X had very little good to say of Negro ministers, very possibly because most of them had attacked the Black Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One would then see it as the Negro parent sees it, for this is precisely what happens. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the Justices who decided the infamous Dred Scott case, which ruled “that the Negro has no rights which the white man is bound to respect,” were not wicked men, he said. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her first job, teaching math and English at a Negro school in rural Tamms, Illinois, ended after her first school year. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t dance well, at least not by Negro standards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He attributed the degradation of the Negro people to the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered that bombs had been thrown by whites into houses like these when Negroes had first moved into the South Side. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the basis of these conditions, Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I rose from the table, passing round to the side where the nurse couldn't see me below the waist, and behind the Negro, who was clearing the dirty plates. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The boy ended up wanting me to expose myself to him, saying he had never seen a Negro naked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Amsterdam News ran stories about Negroes who had made good, and about some who hadn’t. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When the girl’s stepfather, Henry Smith, noticed her disappearance, he suspected foul play and set out to search for her in the woods near the Negro community of Egypt Town just outside of New London. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I began to realize why so few sensitive Negroes had had the gall to come as close to them as I had. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So mostly I pleasured myself these Saturday nights by gawking around the Negro bars and restaurants. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are several of the authors from our lecture series. Of course, Chicago is home to many esteemed Negro writers.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Even for Negroes, Harlem night life is about finished. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That has been true even when a lot of those “black bourgeoisie” and “integration”- mad Negroes were among the blacks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d point out Negro-happy white women to him, and explain that a Negro with any brains could wrap these women around his fingers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young Negro boy watched her balefully from the corner, and Ophie was about to say hello to him when he faded away from sight. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Negro’s only salvation from complete despair lies in his belief, the old belief of his forefathers, that these things are not directed against him personally, but against his race, his pigmentation. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Negro woman, her face expressionless, flat, highlighted with sweat, watched me write. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know Negro Communists as well as I wanted to, and when, on many occasions, I had sought to question them about their feelings, their work, and their actions, they had been reticent. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined being the only white girl in a room full of Negroes and shivered. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger listened as Mr. Dalton told how the Dalton family always lured Negro boys as chauffeurs, especially when those Negro boys were handicapped by poverty, lack of education, misfortune, or bodily injury. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing white folks hate more than realizing they accidentally treated a Negro like a person. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“He talks like a book,” one of the Negro comrades had said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Log Cabin, Negroes with the means to take advantage of its charms left the “colored” signs behind completely. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe we’d run into enough of his old buddies that he’d have something else to talk about besides schools and Negroes. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

There had always been Negro employees in the lab—janitors, cafeteria workers, mechanic’s assistants, groundskeepers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Although originally earmarked for shipyard workers and defense employees like Dorothy, the neighborhood was starting to attract Negroes from all income classes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Did you, in your agitation of that drunken Negro, tell him that it was all right for him to have sexual relations with white women?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many local whites considered MacLean distastefully progressive, dangerous even, with his strident calls to boost Negro participation in the war. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I knew that what he really meant was that Negroes grew up seeing it from infancy. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Norfolk case to the US Supreme Court, which ordered Virginia to bring Negro teachers’ salaries up to the white teachers’ level. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

From no quarter, with the exception of the Negro newspaper editor, had there come a single encouraging word. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but a band of criminals leading good Negroes astray.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

But I found that a lot of Negroes attended a Bible class, and I went there. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro’s feeling of utter hopelessness is here replaced by a determined spirit of passive resistance. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Had you at any time in the past left Miss Dalton alone in the company of Negroes?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A Negro rifle club that had been in existence for over twelve years in Harlem had been “discovered” by the police; it was being trumpeted that I was “behind it.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the tattooed Craigie he said, “Write ‘Octavian Negro.’” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Negroes fought back as best they could. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nobody wants to be an emergency at Harlem Hospital but if the Negro surgeon is visiting, pride cuts down the pain. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was introduced to the Irish chap’s friends and we formed a “gang” of Irish, Jewish, and Negro wits who poked fun at government, the masses, statesmen, and political parties. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it would be just one family, as in the nearby county seat, Mason, which had a single Negro family named Lyons. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realize now that there was something else about the Coopers that set them apart from other Negroes I have seen and met since. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never been in a place with so many Negroes before. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mine was the same psychology that makes Negroes even today, though it bothers them down inside, keep letting the white man tell them how much “progress” they are making. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor, well-disposed, gave me many warnings about the dangers of this project insofar as my contact with Negroes was concerned. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes you wonder if the Negro has completely lost his sense of identity, lost touch with himself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

From then on when some particularly nasty murder was reported, the Negroes said it was Winnie Ruth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered that these houses were the homes in which lived those white people who made Negroes leave their homes and flee into the night. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember that in the press conference, I used the word “Negro,” and I was firmly corrected. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Daddy talking about being polite to the Negroes and Mother biting her lip. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So again our great tactician has relieved himself. Today he's a busy man. First an oration over the body of Brutus, and now a lecture on the patience of the Negro people." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain’t a color, disease ain’t the Negro side a town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Talk about a grand Negro, well, a grand black spectacle. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overalled rural Southern Negroes, small town Negroes, Northern ghetto Negroes, even thousands of previously Uncle Tom Negroes began talking “March!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he attacked the white man, Malcolm did for the Negroes what they couldn’t do for themselves—he attacked with a violence and anger that spoke for the ages of misery. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Codifying the treatment and rights of “free Negroes” within a slave society was always a troublesome task for lawmakers, for the mere presence of nonslave blacks threatened the established order. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I told her about the WEC and what we were doing with the election and how there weren’t any Negroes in the group. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other Negroes aboard eyed me not with anger, as I had expected, but rather with astonishment that any black man could be so stupid. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing the women complain about sexually inadequate mates, she would tell what she’d “heard” about Negro men. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knelt in the Negro aisles of the Meeting House asking for deliverance from what was to come. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In my party work I met a Negro Communist, Ross, who was under indictment for “inciting to riot.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That Negro university—Howard—is there as well. It’s one of the best colored schools in the country. They’ve even got a medical and a law school.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I knew that there were Negro doctors, lawyers, newspapermen, but I never saw any of them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The benches in the hall were always full of sick and patient Negroes who waited for him, and sometimes even the front porch and his bedroom would be crowded. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had been assigned by The New York Times to investigate the growing pressures within the Negro community. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My deputy said you called here Friday night with some information about R.C. Rydell and his plans to call on a Negro boy Saturday night.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Southern Negroes used that term to mean sensitive and tended to look upon a person with that affliction as being a little sick or in delicate health. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five or six Negroes came in after us, heads down, trying to look invisible. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Everybody knew that they stuck together better than the Negroes did. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds more Muslims and curious Negroes drove their own cars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, completing his idea of perfection, there were no resentful Negroes or wild Indians. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opens and a Negro man stands there looking at me, his white clerical collar gleaming. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I know Great-Grampy JonJon was on a Negro Southern League team because of all the trophies and plaques in our attic shrine. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It must be added that the Negro himself no longer believes in the good faith of white Americans—if, indeed, he ever could have. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Or for instance—a scandalous shame—in New York City, with over a million Negroes, there aren’t twenty black-owned businesses employing over ten people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In America, I had ridden in more planes than probably any other Negro, and I never had been invited up into the cockpit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes in Lansing have always whispered that he was attacked, and then laid across some tracks for a streetcar to ran over him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hoover threatened to drive the bonus marchers from Washington, one Negro Communist speaker said: “If he drives the bonus marchers out of Washington, the people will rise up and make a revolution!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But when the Negro had been driven from political power, his spirit had been crushed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those “integration”-mad Negroes practically ran over each other trying to find out where to sign up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

James Thompson, a twenty-six-year-old cafeteria worker, eloquently articulated the Negro dilemma in a letter he wrote to the Pittsburgh Courier. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And they were sitting there with drinks before them, praying that no Negro who knew them would barge up to their table. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some Negro kids walked me to school and home, protecting me from the Japanese kids, who hit me and chased me and stuck gum in my ears. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Day sang with the soul of Negroes from the centuries of sorrow and oppression. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next witness was Willie Reed, a Negro kid about my age. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He knew that the assignments of the Days would more and more be the killing of white people in groups, since more and more Negroes were being killed in groups. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Dalton, why do you contribute money to Negro education?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And the Negro woman who raised you, I’m assuming she’s still there?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Sitting right there and staring at me was the fiery Malcolm X who could be as acid toward Negroes who angered him as he was against whites in general. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all of those riots were kept contained within where the Negroes lived. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In elementary schools, Negroes lag one to three years behind whites, and their segregated schools receive substantially less money per student than the white schools. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And she just seemed to love all Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that it was difficult for free Negroes with all their papers in order to leave Baltimore. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers patrolled through the streets, apprehending Negroes out at unseasonable hours on suspect errands. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But white society never thinks about challenging any Negro in a servant role. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not too sure that desegregating schools is going to fix the Negro’s problem.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In an insightful piece written for Harper’s magazine in June 1960, Lomax predicted that “this revolt, swelling under ground for the past two decades, means the end of the traditional Negro leadership class.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d say they didn’t need to tell me where this was, because I knew that all it meant was that relatively very few Negroes were living there. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t be sure about the whites, I am never around them in private—but the bourgeois Negroes know I’m not lying. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the big, luxurious-looking, circular bar were thirty or forty Negroes, mostly men, drinking and talking. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brutality with which Negroes are treated in this country simply cannot be overstated, however unwilling white men may be to hear it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Well, then, why was it that when Negroes did start revolting across America, virtually all of white America was caught up in surprise and even shock? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruthanne, a tall, thin Negro woman Grampa hired to cook and clean, knew how to cook everything Gramma ever had, and some other things as well. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had been a Negro more than three weeks and it no longer shocked me to see the stranger in the mirror. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

More surprising was the conversion of the black business and intellectual classes in Durham, best exemplified by the Durham Committee on Negro Affairs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was given blood tests, aptitude tests, physical coordination tests, and Rorschachs, then on a blissful day I was hired as the first Negro on the San Francisco streetcars. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a white man I could not be seen leaving a Negro home at midnight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In speeches, he urged white colleges to employ Negro professors. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As a college graduate and a teacher, she stood near the top of what most Negro women could hope to achieve. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I would doubt if anyone in America has heard Negroes more bitter against the white man than some of those I have heard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biff recognized him as a Negro doctor who had practiced in the town ever since he could remember. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The reason is that among all Negroes the black convict is the most perfectly preconditioned to hear the words, ‘ ‘the white man is the devil.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The free Negroes, the Quakers, the Methodists, the German farmers, who helped runaway slaves in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, started using phrases and words suited to the idea of a railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave him his tip, received his bow and realized that already he was far from me, distant as the Negro is distant from the white. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, half of all Negroes live in substandard housing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Cold Sassy thought Grandpa had really stepped out of bounds, asking a Negro preacher to give the sermon. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad said that somehow, he never could stand how the Sandersville white farmers, the sawmill foremen, or other white employers would habitually and often curse Negro workers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you could say I’m being denied so much as a Negro in America that I deserve some of it back. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a national black leader, Booker T. Washington, put it, the southern way of life was dependent on “the Negro and the mule.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Near them, seated on a box, a Negro man drowsed in the late sunshine, his knees collapsed against each other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The reporters who interviewed me included an American Negro from Newsweek magazine—his name was Williams. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro worker paused a moment to stand up and stretch his back, and as he did so, I grabbed his hoe and headed back into the cotton. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Now, there is simply no possibility of a real change in the Negro’s situation without the most radical and far-reaching changes in the American political and social structure. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Many Negro opponents in the end refused to make any public appearances on the same platform with him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes in this country—and Negroes do not, strictly or legally speaking, exist in any other—are taught really to despise themselves from the moment their eyes open on the world. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

A few Negroes shot uneasy glances at them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was selling hundreds of thousands of records among Negroes before white people ever knew who Mahalia Jackson was. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

During this period the shadings and nuances which were filling in Bigger’s picture came, not so much from Negro life, as from the lives of whites I met and grew to know. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Talk about a grand Negro, well, a grand black spectacle. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing unites Negroes in Harlem or anywhere else like playing the numbers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

What the mayor had actually said was, “It’s nice that we can depend on the Negro to do their part.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I was afraid that the defeated secretary, being white, would resent losing to a Negro, but his conduct showed nothing but friendliness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in areas far removed from Mississippi, I’d hear a Negro say: “I wish I didn’t have to live this way. I feel like I want to burst.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But,” said the first, “that might startle the Negro boy hiding under the cushions.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I now knew what being a Negro meant. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Winthrop,” I asked, “is Mrs. Brewer right? If she invited Negroes to join the WEC, would the group really fall apart?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was still in Texas, late in 1960, the incident most reported and pictured in the newspapers was the matriculation of a couple of tiny Negro children in a New Orleans school. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’d have long talks—absorbing everything—with the real old-timers, who had been around Harlem since Negroes first came there. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finch’s Landing was used only by travelers: the steps gave the ladies an excellent excuse to swoon; their luggage was left at the cotton landing— to debark there in front of the Negroes was unthinkable. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He attacked “known Communists” within the NAACP, claiming that “Negroes are as loyal as you and I, but they have been exploited.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning a Negro Communist came to my house before I was out of bed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Duncan is a strange one, always talking to Negroes like she cares what they have to say. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Or it could be some brainwashed Negro acting on his own idea that by eliminating me he would be helping out the white man, because I talk about the white man the way I do. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boss, his son, and the clerk treated the Negroes with open contempt, pushing, kicking, or slapping them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is lovely,” said he, “when a Negro has time in the day to deliberate even about what he is called. Perhaps, sir, you are newly at leisure?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She nodded to a Negro boy who looked about my age standing near the edge of the platform. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“What about . . .” Milkman searched his memory for some white person who had shown himself unequivocally supportive of Negroes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next night two Negro Communists called at my home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coroner turned back to Jan. “Now, Mr. Erlone, didn’t you ask that Negro to sit in the front seat of the car, between you and Miss Dalton?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You’re the only one who’s crazy. You got everything exactly backward. The only way to solve the Negro problem under capitalism is to geld every one of the fifteen million black men in these states.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On Dryades, the whites thinned and I saw more and more Negroes in the street. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It tickles him that whitepeople are scared to compete with Negroes fair and square. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she had a friend write a cryptic letter to a free Negro, Jacob Jackson, who lived near the plantation where two of her brothers worked. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And thanks to those Quakers, he had some pretty radical notions on how Negroes should be treated. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Again, it cannot be denied that this point of view is abundantly justified by American Negro history. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Following Kennedy’s assassination, President Johnson professed his commitment to the goal of “the full assimilation of more than twenty million Negroes into American life,” and ensured the passage of comprehensive civil rights legislation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Only white men were allowed in the basement; no women or Negroes were admitted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse came back, and the Negro edged off at a distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Look sister, we know the facts: you spent the first twenty-one years of your life in the lynching country, in a county whose population is two-thirds agricultural Negro. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When we all arrived, though, a Christian Negro’s funeral was just dismissing, so we had to wait awhile, and we watched the mourners out. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most colorful of the Negro boys on the job was Shorty, the round, yellow, fat elevator operator. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Turner, whatever were you doing with that Negro girl?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They wielded their work like weapons, warding off the presumption of inferiority because they were Negro or female. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with dating a Negro girl.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because of the sudden appearance of the other Negro, he had never thought about a gun. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “No Negroes, Mexicans, or dogs” sign hanging from the diner’s door flashed in his mind. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ten years ago, Negroes seemed almost invisible to the larger society, and the facts of their harsh lives were unknown to the majority of the nation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Part of the Southern white’s strategy is to get the Negro in debt and keep him there. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a scene which combines the worst of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Fritz Lang’s Metropolisit is mechanized Negro slavery; it represents the progress which the Negro has made from picking cotton to tailoring it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recently, I discovered, an instance arose where the Negro leaders used their economic leverage in a typical manner. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was unheard of among Negroes in those days, especially in Lansing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having a Negro for a companion took him inside the problem. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can already hear her whispering at the League meetings, I knew there was something not right about that Skeeter Phelan, hunting for those Negro materials... The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The papers arrived and I scoured the Negro area, slowly building up a string of customers who bought the papers more because they knew me than from any desire to read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, there was more in the Muslim paper about integrationist Negro “leaders” than there was about me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I would rather have my children live in ignorance than have them go to school with Negroes,” one white parent told a reporter. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And this urgency on the part of American Negroes is not to be forgotten! The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I went to my first unit meeting—which was held in the Black Belt of the South Side—and introduced myself to the Negro organizer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large, middle- aged Negro woman sat in front of us to the left, a young Negro man occupied the seat in front of us to the right. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if it wasn’t against the law for a white person to hurt a Negro. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Negro problem, which he had always said should be renamed “the white man’s problem,” was beginning to assume new dimensions for him in the last months of his life. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Christian religion is incompatible with the Negro’s aspirations for dignity and equality in America,” the student had 240 written. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“New Negro” quickly came to mean an African American who refused to obey the discriminatory laws under which pre-World War I blacks were forced to live. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Wherever I’d seen as many as ten Boston Negroes—let alone Lansing Negroes—drinking, there had been a big noise. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back when I was growing up, the “successful” Lansing Negroes were such as waiters and bootblacks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the economic circumstances of the student body, Allen was considered one of the best Negro high schools in the country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then they wouldn’t, because Harlem already thought little enough of the law, and they did have to be careful that some crowd of Negroes would not intervene roughly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a white man became a Negro in the Deep South, what adjustments would he have to make? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then whole blocks of Jews ran, and still more Negroes came uptown, until in a short time, Harlem was like it still is today—virtually all black. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or did he simply become a Negro, sweating and straining through the streets of the garment center with all the other Negroes? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I feel that though few of them liked it, at least a large proportion of them understood that I worked as much for them and their children as I did for the Negroes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One migrant remembered thinking, “This is a real place for Negroes.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain said suddenly, “Buster, tell me something. What do you think of Negroes?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was that a white man, a Negro, and a Jew were given one wish each. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I had another radio or television microphone at my mouth, when I was asked about “stirring up Negroes” or “inciting violence,” I’d get hot. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every Negro who comes to Summerland gets vaccinated. The purpose is simple: the vaccination keeps you from turning if you get bit while on patrol.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I was thinking that it was very strange for me, a boy from Virginia, to be lying beside this giant Negro out on the ocean. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger knew the things that white folks hated to hear Negroes ask for; and he knew that these were the things the Reds were always asking for. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

You just notice how rarely you will ever hear whites asking any Negroes what they think about the problem of world health, or the space race to land men on the moon. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is worrisome, certainly an experience any Negro wants to avoid. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never got any decent tips until the middle of the Negro dances, which is when the dancers started feeling good and getting generous. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know Evans?” he asked, referring to a local, militant Negro Communist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the corridor he saw six white men struggling with a brownskinned Negro. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought it was because of some earlier experience with another Negro, but I never asked, and she never said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my great relief, the reflections from the dash light showed me the face of a young Negro man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The White House speedily invited in the major civil rights Negro “leaders.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a fact that every American Negro bears a name that originally belonged to the white man whose chattel he was. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“He’s saying we despoiled their land and used the Negroes for slaves, just as long as we could get away with it,” she said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to the Negro Communist who had invited me into the ranks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy—that the Negro is treated not even as a second- class citizen, but as a tenth-class one. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But opening the door to Negroes who would be professional peers, that was something new. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Howard, based in Washington, DC, was the summit of Negro scholarship. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Petty crimes embarrass the community and many people wistfully wonder why Negroes don’t rob more banks, embezzle more funds and employ graft in the unions. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm had purged himself of all the ills that afflict the depressed Negro mass: drugs, alcohol, tobacco, not to speak of criminal pursuits. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes bom in Georgia had to be strong simply to survive. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed the words into the sick and patient faces of the Negroes who were his people. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to the voter drive at the Negro high school.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most distressing repercussion of this lack of communication has been the rise in racism among Negroes, justified to some extent, but a grave symptom nevertheless. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was reported that several hundred Negro employees throughout the city had been dismissed from jobs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were just like the Negroes everywhere else. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With victory over the enemies from without assured, Negroes took stock of their own battlefield. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But after the Negro dances, we would have to throw out cartons full of empty fifth bottles—not rotgut, either, but the best brands, and especially Scotch. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d expected this stranger to say, as if she were a neighbor, “They’re as good as my own. I’ll make sure they don’t misbehave or be an embarrassment to the Negro race.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jews flew from that house, then from that block, and more Negroes came in to fill their apartments. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was that bad, then, despite the white Southern legislators who insisted that they had a “wonderfully harmonious relationship” with Negroes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groups of Negroes were talking of getting to Washington any way they could—in rickety old cars, on buses, hitch-hiking— walking, even, if they had to. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of sweat on the Negro was mixed with the heavy dust in his lungs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As always, we Negroes sat at the rear. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shake my head like I am the dumbest Negro to ever walk the earth. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Only the Negro and I were near enough to hear what he said but the policeman caught something in the tone and looked over with truculent eyes. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been told the good old-time Negro sang and danced and was content.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lines between the Polish and Irish and Hungarians and Negroes and everywhere in between. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Do you want this town run by—now wait a minute—-Willoughby’s a crook, we know that, but do you know of any Negro who knows as much as Willoughby? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A lot of the Negro girls’ combat schools are in old plantation houses, while the boys’ combat schools are in abandoned military barracks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then she had the Store built in the heart of the Negro area. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Negroes were selected on the basis of scholarship, personal conduct, and health. We picked those who had the mental ability to do the job and had used it,” Blossom answered. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There she attended the Beechhurst School, a consolidated Negro school located around the corner from West Virginia University, the states flagship white college. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A few of both races, more Negroes than whites, would speak or nod to him in greeting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Why did you leave the Federal Negro Theater?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One lets out a halfhearted woof as Daddy’s field workers, five Negroes, pull up in a truck bed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Because there is nothing easier than plucking a Negro out of an orchestra and setting him to dance on high. Aye?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

For instance, time and again when I spoke at street rallies, I would draw ten and twelve times as many people as most other so-called “Negro leaders.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

We were assisted by his Negroes, one of whom wished to depart with us, but was forbidden by his bound master. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

My life now depended upon my finding work, and I was so anxious that I accepted the first offer, a job as a porter in a clothing store selling cheap goods to Negroes on credit. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the horrors of the American Negro’s life there has been almost no language. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Bigger, are there many Negro boys like you?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How many times have you eaten with Negroes before?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said nothing, but I was quickly learning the reality—a Negro’s reality—of the white world. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here and there I saw Negroes who hurried along with leather pouches strapped to their wrists. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We by-passed the larger churches with their higher ratio of so-called “middle-class” Negroes who were so full of pretense and “status” that they wouldn’t be caught in our little storefront. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negroes stammered and faltered in their lines. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had swallowed the white man’s fear of the Negro, as we were called back then, whole. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’d hear a Negro say: “God, I wish I had a flag and a country of my own.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was this part of Roxbury much more exciting, but I felt more relaxed among Negroes who were being their natural selves and not putting on airs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

People in Stamps used to say that the whites in our town were so prejudiced that a Negro couldn’t buy vanilla ice cream. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mutual’s influence in other areas—banking, real estate, education—guaranteed a nearly seamless, insular Negro ruling class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We spent our time, significantly, between the three- block section on Auburn Street where Negro financing and industry controls some eighty million dollars, and the section of the six Negro colleges. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, many teachers in Arkansas Negro schools had only that diploma and were licensed to impart wisdom. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where he went, there wasn’t a white face around, and the Negroes were as pleasant, wide-spirited, and self-contained as could be. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Negro has jumped into uniform and gone off and died when this America was attacked by enemies both white and non-white. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And more: Amos and Andy are famous for being funny also, but they are played by white men who pretend to be Negro. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“They jammed fifty-five Negroes in a jail cell built for four.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Smith said the investigation showed: Young Till and several other Negro youths went to the Bryant store in the Money community and Till went in and allegedly made the remarks. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I would hate to be general of an army as badly informed as the American white man has been about the Negro in this country. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had spotted us, in passing, as Negroes, and they knew that Negroes had no business in the area at that hour. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As one planter said, it made no sense to believe that “the Negro would become a grateful and cheerful free laborer on the soil which had been watered by his tears in slavery.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The fact is that very few white bands could have satisfied the Negro dancers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can he tell this to white men, I thought, when he knows they'll say that all Negroes do such things? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elijah’s mission is to return “the so-called Negro” to Islam, to separate the chosen of Allah from this doomed nation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

‘Negro’ is a false label forced on you by your slavemaster! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The subject of the composition this year was ‘My Ambition: How I Can Better the Position of the Negro Race in Society.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“After a forty-seven-day standoff. Also a Negro division of mounted trike commandos apparently repelled a Confederate attack at a supply station called Milliken’s Bend.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until my friend Eric was invited to parties that I couldn’t attend, because I was black, that the idea of being a “Negro” began to have real meaning to me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“An American Negro?” her father asked, sounding baffled. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He warned them against eating the “filthy pig” and other “wrong foods” that it was habitual for Negroes to eat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the back of the building are two large tables of boys and girls, all Negroes, hungrily shoveling food off tin plates. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They filed lawsuits and stuff to help Negroes get more rights. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro’s lower scholastic showing springs not from racial default, but from being deprived of cultural and educational advantages by the whites. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

During that year I worked for several burial and insurance societies that operated among Negroes, and I received a new kind of education. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Negro Digest is smaller, but it has a lot of neat articles. I like it,” Suesetta says. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So, after reading selections from Negro schools all over North Carolina, we are pleased to announce that one of the winning contestants is from Riverside School!”’ Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This is one reason why Mr. Muhammad’s teachings spread so swiftly all over the United States, among all Negroes, whether or not they became followers of Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as he is unwilling to accept his past. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Malcolm appealed to the two most disparate elements in the Negro community—the depressed mass, and the galaxy of Negro writers and artists who have burst on the American scene in the past decade. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the flood of light against white tile, the face and shoulders of a stranger—a fierce, bald, very dark Negro—glared at me from the glass. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went home full of reflection, probing the sincerity of the strange white people I had met, wondering how they really regarded Negroes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The accompanying photo showed eleven well-dressed Negro women in front of Hampton Institutes Bemis Laboratory, graduates of Engineering for Women, a war training class. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Across the street from the bus station, I saw an elderly Negro man seated on a door stoop near the curb. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did such a job on my reputation in the Negro neighborhood that I practically went into hiding. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say, I’m slanting this to the primitive Negro who doesn’t want to be disturbed by white civilization.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when she told us about the eleven Negro kids who were going to study with white kids at the white schools for the first time today. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And the white women cried and stood around her like a protecting wall and the Negroes, with heads hung down, shuffled out and away. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

That same year she enrolled in the University of Michigan under a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, a program designed to match talented Negro scholars with the country’s most competitive graduate programs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Negroes being questioned by policemen would be very hard to pin down on any exact time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was of a Negro woman whose husband had been seized and killed by a mob. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes and whites are not allowed to share water fountains, movie houses, public restrooms, ballparks, phone booths, circus shows. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

White Communists had idealized all Negroes to the extent that they did not see the same Negroes I saw. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that for the Negro to try to save himself he would have to forget himself and try to save a confused, materialistic nation from its own drift toward self-destruction. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked them, bumbling my words like a confused Negro, if they could tell me how to get to a Roxbury address. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I could go to a Negro church, why not a Negro movie theater? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that was true, then those who did not want a Negro in the club could resign. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cabin belonged to a family of free Negroes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen the Negro dockworkers stripped to the waist, their bodies glistening with sweat under their loads. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I regret that you lost your especial Negroes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Now, these were the only Negroes I knew or had contact with in the days of my flypaper childhood, and you can see how little I was prepared for the great world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this is also why the presence of the Negro in this country can bring about its destruction. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Other Negroes I find it hard to understand because their tongues do not move enough for the words. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had similarly made arrangements with some other prominent Negroes who were due to appeal to the audience for their maximum possible contributions to aid the work of Malcolm X and his organization. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This “Negro” was taught of his native Africa that it was peopled by heathen, black savages, swinging like monkeys from trees. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two white policemen, breaking up a street scuffle between some Negroes, ordered other Negro passers-by to “Move on!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was talking about sports. Education. Not dating Negroes.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were free Negroes living in their own cabins on the edge of the woods, not far away from the plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Go to Durham and see the cooperative spirit among Negroes at its best. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shivering Negroes in overalls loitered before the windows of the ten-cent store. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The speakers claimed that Negroes were angry, that they were about to rise and join their white fellow workers to make a revolution. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

These whites were just mad for Negro “atmosphere,” especially some of the places which had what you might call Negro soul. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff gestures toward a patch of wall in the distance with a group of Negroes and drovers patrolling it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At the next intersection a Negro teenager strode by. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that the Negro had been trained to dissemble and conceal his real thoughts, as a matter of survival. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s practically the image of the Attendants they’re always advertising in the paper, the Negro girl holding short swords and smiling prettily: ladies! don’t go it alone! Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was an example of this that always flew to my mind every time I heard some of the ‘ ‘big name” Negro “leaders” declaring they “spoke for” the ghetto black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that I mean that I don’t know a town with a higher percentage of complacent and misguided so-called “middle-class” Negroes—the typical status- symbol-oriented, integration-seeking type of Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Richard, did you hire another colored girl? I specifically told you that I didn’t want any more Negro help at Daffodil Manor.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Again the strangeness, the secret awareness that the person on the other end did not know he talked with a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other Negroes stood in other doorways, watching me as though they thought I was insane to stand there in the bright light. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

June did, too, but it was hard to get a job, since there weren’t that many places for Negroes to teach. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother or aunt or teacher long ago carefully prepared him, explaining that he as an individual can live in dignity, even though he as a Negro cannot. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hear many wonderful things about the Negro settlement there and are grateful that God in his infinite mercy and wisdom has seen fit to provide you and yours a refuge. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He picked up the newspaper and pointed to the Negro who stood over the fallen idealist. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had even heard it said that white people felt it was good when one Negro killed another; it meant that they had one Negro less to contend with. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Culturally the Negro represents a paradox: Though he is an organic part of the nation, he is excluded by the entire tide and direction of American culture. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the railroad cooks and waiters had told me to be very careful, because muggings, knifings and robberies went on every night among these Negroes. . . just a few blocks from the White House. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greasy “home-cooking” restaurants, beauty shops smoky inside from Negro women’s hair getting fried, barbershops advertising conk experts. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the psychological distance that separated the races that the deepest meaning of the problem of the Negro lay for me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Negro family in Bumblebee knew the unwritten rules—they had to take care of their own problems and take care of one another. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The two elderly Negroes glared at each other. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as was the unfortunate case in many Negro colleges, the position at the college came with a “very heavy teaching load, scientific isolation, no scientific library, and no opportunity to go to scientific meetings.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And this did not apply only to Negroes, who were no more “simple” or “spontaneous” or “Christian” than anybody else—who were merely more oppressed. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t particularly hold no truck with the notion, since being a Negro pretty much puts me in the inferior column. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want that to happen, so I put on the white jacket and started serving up sodas, sundaes, splits, shakes and all the rest of that fountain stuff to those fancy-acting Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t even imagine how their little Negro mascot was quickly surpassing them all. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For her, he wasn’t only a Negro, but a Negro musician. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guarantee that any honest, open-minded Negro leader would return home with more effective thinking about alternative avenues to solutions of the American black man’s problem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, as a young boy, I had been asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I had never answered “black” or “Negro” or even “colored.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They were the first Negro family to do so and by chance their last name was White. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“What happened to that nice pretty Negro girl you wrote me about? Laura?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whites tended to wonder, “What Negro celebrity is he?” and to presume I was uppity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I half rose from my seat to give it to her, but Negroes behind me frowned disapproval. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few Negroes, who could not enter the white bar, were served from the back. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buddy Nealson, a member of the Communist International, had arrived in Chicago to assume charge of Negro work. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crackers in the South mad cause Negroes were leaving; crackers in the North mad cause they were coming. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if wholesale and dramatic robbery of money and goods has not taken place here as in Germany, it is simply because the Negro has never been allowed to accrue wealth in the first place.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The observing self saw the Negro, surrounded by the sounds and smells of the ghetto, write “Darling” to a white woman. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was aware that the street smells, and the drugstore odors of perfume and amica, were exactly the same to the Negro as they had been to the white. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This coming from a Negro who runs his own business. Of course you want us to be your patrons.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This “Negro” accepted this along with every other teaching of the slavemaster that was designed to make him accept and obey and worship the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To get from the white world into the Negro world is a complex matter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They soon had me ready to quit, with their accents so phonied up that if you just heard them and didn’t see them, you wouldn’t even know they were Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And from then until she finished high school, she managed it several times with other Negroes—and she somehow came to New York, and went straight to Harlem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something familiar about the fumes that filled the air and I had just thought pine, when a high-pitched Negro voice rang out above the machine sounds. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said something like, “I believe that I happen not to be aware of that’ ’—you know, one of these ultra-proper-talking Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are still stores that refuse to hire Negroes, still places where we go and get treated like we’re nothing.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Negroes around me shook their heads slowly, with regret. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Douglas found a Negro gospel station outside of Tuscaloosa. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I, the white man, got from the Negro the same shriveling treatment I, the Negro, had got from the white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I say, Yessuh, and he say, Well, you better tell em he your high yellow cause that colored doctor won’t operate on a white boy in a Negro hospital. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I had to be careful though, not to speak too much like a northern Negro; they wouldn't like that. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can’t deny the Negroes a basic constitutional right to vote.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God made Negroes to work the land. They don’t feel the heat like we do; they can work all day long in the most hellish weather. They’re strong people, good with their hands.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that they were necessarily in love with the Negro, but they were in love with lust—particularly “taboo” lust. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black newspapers—unabashedly partisan on issues pertaining to the Negro—refused to censor themselves, despite the federal government’s threat to level sedition charges against them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For two hours, he pafced the floor delivering a tirade against Negro leaders who were attacking Elijah Muhammad and himself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t you be sneaking around driving at night, son. Lots of things happen at night to Negroes you don’t want to know about.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Do you know that she still says “Negro” and refuses to call us black or African-American? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I now began to speculate about what kind of man Mr. Hoffman was, and I found that I did not know him; that is, I did not know his basic attitude toward Negroes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the cramped cubicle there were five other prisoners—three Negroes and two white men. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The more I learned of the Negro Communists the more I found that they were not vicious, that they had no intention to hurt. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why is it that you charge the Thomas family and other Negro families more rent for the same kind of houses than you charge whites?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said they knew the Negroes, they had had long talks with the Negroes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know so. You think those white teachers are going to teach all children the truth about what the Negro has contributed to this country?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Far to the front I saw the dim figure of a Negro woman making the Stations of the Cross. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lansing’s white women, even in those days, were famous for chasing Negro men. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recalled that I’d seen many rats on the streets, that I’d heard and read of Negro children being bitten by rats in their beds. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been at it for four months and the store still refuses to hire Negroes. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On the eve of World War II, Hampton was one of the leading Negro colleges in the country and the focal point of the black community’s participation in the conflict. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There were more Negroes there than she’d ever seen, and the comfort she felt in their midst she kept all her life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy could see that freedom depended on the possession of land; he was persuaded that, in one way or another, Negroes must achieve this possession. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I was no longer simply a member of the proud graduating class of 1940; I was a proud member of the wonderful, beautiful Negro race. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen per cent of the inmates were Negroes, distributed about five to nine Negroes in each house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, most adhere to the long-standing conspiracy of silence about anything remotely favorable to the Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you hit me, you’ll just be hitting me in the wrong,” the poorly dressed Negro said, looking calmly up at Christophe. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This ain’t just another of the preacher’s initiatives to reform the Negro. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And the first time Mrs. Caperdeen showed us a slide from his series Aspects of Negro Life, I knew the kind of art I wanted to start making. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If a black singer appeared at Carnegie Hall, it wouldn’t be in an opera but in a recital, which would include Negro spirituals. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She would have called the police after both of them if everything she knew about Negro life had made it even possible to consider. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only the high schools are closed. No one is trying to send Negroes to the junior highs.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crooks, the Negro stable buck, had his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I opened my mouth, what came out was, “Have you ever heard of a light-skinned Negro pretending to be white?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked them to replace the white woman—including her quaint aesthetic notions—with someone who knew the Negro and the theater. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out there were a whole bunch of teams called the Oilers, so Brandon picked books about the Negro Leagues, hockey, and football. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The Negroes cried out as they crowded together for protection, and the whites on the sidelines whooped and cheered.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Williams laughed through it practically in a single breath, reading aloud how the Negroes had been slaves and then were freed, and how they were usually lazy and dumb and shiftless. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constantine lived about a mile from our house, in a small Negro neighborhood called Hotstack, named after the tar plant that used to operate back there. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They would think that white men did it; they would never think that a black, timid Negro did that. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Negro passengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for “the poor little motherless darlings” and plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wished right then that she was back home with her cousins, getting ready to head off to the Frederick Douglass School for Negro Children. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I am not sure why he made this decision, for he was not a frightened Negro, as most then were, and many still are today. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the only Negro I knew, except for the school principal and the visiting teachers, who wore matching pants and jackets. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This peddler of silks and yard goods, Mr. W. D. Fard, knew the Bible better than any of the Christian- bred Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later a well-dressed Negro woman about Mom’s age came in, and the Negro congressman and another man led her to the benches in the back. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A Negro being photographed by a white arouses suspicions. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never met a Negro who was so irredeemably brutalized. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Othello here is going to willingly submit to a shambler's bite in order to demonstrate the increased resistance of a vaccinated Negro. Earlier this week Othello received a series of shots, which were painless.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And I suppose I might have grown up better, might have become a proper house girl or even taken Aunt Aggie’s place as House Negro. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He told me that he wanted to train a Negro boy in the optical trade; he wanted to help him, guide him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hazardous, but it was the only way to traverse an area both as Negro and white. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lived then in a small brick house in Manhattan, and, being for the moment solvent, employed a Negro. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real Negroes—real men—go out and get some of their own. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I was surprised to catch a twitching smile on the lips of a Negro woman. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A well- known banker’s wife phoned this paper that she had dismissed her Negro cook, “for fear that she might poison the children.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I never seen a Negro with red hair, high yellow or otherwise.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Negro boy, and his short dark hair glistened and dripped water as I dragged him up on the riverbank. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Among the Negroes whom he found most receptive, he began holding little meetings in their poor homes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall a very odious episode between my mother and a Negro. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Millions of Negroes have been crucified by conscientious blindness....Jesus was right about those men who crucified him. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In New Orleans I resumed my Negro identity and we went to all of my former haunts to photograph them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes are allowed to serve, and that’s as far as we can go. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the Negro these fears of “intermingling” make no sense. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Boy, are you stubborn just to be stubborn? Or is there something else to it? You think some other Negro will come live with you? Will you be sweet on her, too?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Luck of a sort came when a distant cousin of mine, who was a superintendent in a Negro burial society, offered me a position on his staff as an agent. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When now the white man picked up his telephone and dialed his “house” and “yard” Negroes—why, he didn’t even need to instruct the trained black puppets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a real Georgia Negro, and he believed in eating plenty of what we in Harlem today call “soul food.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the “Blood Brothers,” I said I considered all Negroes to be my blood brothers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the first thing the American power structure doesn’t want any Negroes to start is thinking internationally. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another time I’d stayed too late, I had had to walk around two Negro kids who were bonking each other’s head on the concrete. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, I do not wish to witness the awful spectacle of the Negroes moving upward into the middle class. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They warded off the negative stereotypes that haunted Negroes like shadows, using tough love to protect both the errant individual and the group from her failings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Why did you leave an unprotected white girl alone in a car with a drunken Negro?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The girls, so well known in the Negro places in Roxbury, had tried to change his mind, but he had insisted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negro inmates feel that they are being robbed, that it is “society” that owes them, that should be paying them, a debt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So some of them just married a white man for convenience and security, and kept right on going with a Negro. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who would believe the blessings that have been heaped upon an American Negro? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every one of us, except the Negroes forced here as slaves, are descended from the restless ones, the wayward ones who were not content to stay at home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jim Crow laws kept the Negroes pretty much stuck where they were—with no hope of things ever getting better. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could fight the southern whites by organizing with other Negroes, as my grandfather had done. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t trust the kind of whites who love having Negroes always hanging around them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an article by a general from Argentina concerning the use of Negro troops. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was my Negro experience until I was well grown, perhaps too far grown to reform the inflexible habits of childhood. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought in with him a tall Negro man carrying a black bag. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A large group of Negroes, his followers and well-wishers, kept gathering in the Overseas Arrival Building at Kennedy Airport. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The business of the cafe was growing rapidly and a Negro girl was hired to make salads. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes—Afro-Americans—showed no inclination to rash to the United Nations and demand justice for themselves here in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another red Negro had confessed, which enabled me to live in Harlem again. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This man, it was rumored, was the party’s theoretician on the Negro Question, and word reached me that he had launched a campaign to rid the Communist party of all its “Negro Trotskyite elements.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the Negroes milling around have weapons, which is hardly a surprise, but if what the sheriff says is true, everyone needs to be armed. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

An elderly white couple who owned a Harlem clothing store had been attacked by several young Negroes, and the wife was stabbed to death. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Negro parents in those days would almost instinctively treat any lighter children better than they did the darker ones. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why don’t you rent those houses to Negroes?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We heard her shouting, “Stop those Negro girls! Stop them!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

All white people looked similar to Negroes but Negroes took care to differentiate between them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He hated Negroes only a little more than he despised Indians. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other groups, such as Ida Wells-Barnett’s Negro Fellowship League, were pursuing the same goal. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well...I got no problem with Negroes, long as they stay in their place.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a euphemism for the curse Noah put upon Canaan, Ham’s son. It’s the reason the Negro was enslaved,” she says. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I heard of the organizational efforts of the Communist party among the Negroes of the South Side, but Communist activities were too remote to strike my mind with any degree of vividness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My twenty years in military service and my Christian religious persuasion didn’t help, either; he often jeered publicly at these affiliations for Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro shook his head with a frown. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later I sought out the editor of the local Negro newspaper and found that he could not hire me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton would be a great scientist and Karl Marx a teacher of the Negro race and William a lawyer to fight against injustice and Portia a doctor for women and children. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The degraded status of Africans was justified on the ground that Negros, like the Indians, were an uncivilized lesser race, perhaps even more lacking in intelligence and laudable human qualities than the red-skinned natives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But since then I’ve been up the Hill, as they say, which is about as far up as Negroes ever get to go. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grampa guessed about 300 people were sitting there waiting for the trial to begin; I counted only thirty-five Negroes, and most of them looked like they’d rather be anywhere but sitting in a hostile courtroom. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But every school teacher knows that this is not so, for every school teacher knows the restrictions which have been placed upon Negro education. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot look at the face of my Negro woodchopper without fancying that he sharpens the axe for my daughter. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re making a bad mistake if you think your daddy’s dedicated to keeping the Negroes in their places.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In Salinas in California, where I was born and grew and went to school gathering the impressions that formed me, there was only one Negro family. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have held no brief for the Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your poems are crude, but good for us. You see, we’re all new in this. We write articles about Negroes, but we never see any Negroes. We need your stuff.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his television appearances and at public meetings Malcolm articulated the woes and the aspirations of the depressed Negro mass in a way it was unable to do for itself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Go to Durham and see Negro business with an aggregate capital of millions....Among your New Year’s resolves, resolve to go to Durham! The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You hadn’t expected that drunken Negro to go that far, had you?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of white people around there didn’t want Negroes in their houses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I admire any Negro man who has never had himself conked, or who has had the sense to get rid of it—as I finally did. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is no longer possible to count the number of public establishments that are open to Negroes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was the type who would never have been associated with Africa, until the fad of having African friends became a status-symbol for “middle- class” Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a pastor of a small Methodist church just outside the city, and he was known to be sympathetic to Negro causes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two Negro kids enrolled in Chinese school, and the teachers gave them Chinese names. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the beginnings of great loneliness, not because I was a Negro but because the man I had been, the self I knew, was hidden in the flesh of another. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could only conclude that he was color blind, since he appeared totally unaware that I was a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One black leader of a Mississippi town observed, “Negroes grab the Defender like a hungry mule grabs fodder.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There, the white people just sat and worshiped with words; but the Boston Negroes, like all other Negroes I had ever seen at church, threw their souls and bodies wholly into worship. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought my Observations on Fashion exceeding Seasonable & we retired some miles down the Road and purchased him a Shirt out of some Negro cloth & some Breeches, which we got at a very fine Price. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pouring out of the factories like black smoke from a furnace came the thousands of Negroes who worked there. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Seated in the Negro gallery amongst other servants, Indians, and white boys banished for whispering and tricks, she appeared no different, no more peculiar in her circumstances, than any lady’s maid. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Around the room, the wainscoting panels have been painted to depict scenes of pre-Civil War times, happy Negroes picking cotton, horses pulling wagons, white- bearded statesmen on the steps of our capitol. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Or I could die at the hands of some Negro hired by the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want your children going to a school that’s been dragged down to accommodate Negro children?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Every Negro craned his head to look at the phenomenon. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If young colored men receive scientific training, almost their only opening lies in the Negro university of the South,” commented W. E. B. Du Bois in 1939. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Big Ma said, “I don’t know why we have to make a grand Negro spectacle out of everything. “I’ll get my hat.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be an understanding that these Negroes and the tough black cops never clashed; I guess both knew that someone would die. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She undoubtedly considered it supreme insolence for a Negro to dare to feel sorry for her. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma used to say the Indian was even worse off than the Negro, because instead of being taken from his land he'd had his land taken from him. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was Helene who never turned her head in church when latecomers arrived; Helene who established the practice of seasonal altar flowers; Helene who introduced the giving of banquets of welcome to returning Negro veterans. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro widened his eyes in mock wonder. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

What would happen if all the Negroes in the South were suddenly given full civil rights? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I had seen many Negroes solve the problem of being black by transferring their hatred of themselves to others with a black skin and fighting them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella and Jojo then ran on to the house of the only Negro doctor in town, Dr. Hawkins, then to the schoolteacher’s, then to every other right-side house on Riverside Road. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One of his white women, known as “Alabama Peach,” a blonde, could put everybody in stitches with her drawl; even the several Negro women numbers controllers around Small’s really liked her. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had nothing to do with this life, nothing to do with the room in Hattiesburg or with its Negro inhabitant. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me share something with you. This is a poem by Langston Hughes, a Negro poet,” she said, pulling out a small book. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A Negro woman shakes her head at him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

What else is a good Christian woman going to do when a Negro comes flying out from between the legs of the richest white woman in Haller County, Kentucky? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I had been invited by some “responsible” Negro leaders who normally never spoke to me; I knew they had just used my name to help them draw a crowd. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negroes have suffered too long from betrayals and in Malcolm they sensed a man of mission. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mustered out, he returned to the South and, during elections, guarded ballot boxes with his army rifle so that Negroes could vote. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I told her that in Stamps my grandmother had owned the only Negro general merchandise store since the turn of the century, she exclaimed, “Why, you were a debutante.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Mr. Dalton gave millions of dollars for Negro education, he would rent houses to Negroes only in this prescribed area, this corner of the city tumbling down from rot. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the Japanese disappeared, soundlessly and without protest, the Negroes entered with their loud jukeboxes, their just-released animosities and the relief of escape from Southern bonds. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Page after page of Negroes in bridles, strapped to walls, advertisements for shackles, reports of hangings of slaves for theft or insubordination. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Among Negro educators, of whom Malcolm X met many in his college and university lecturing, I never heard him speak well of any but one, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, in this underworld pocket of the building, we munched our lunches and discussed the ways of white folks toward Negroes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped once, at a cabin where a family of free Negroes lived. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro often dreams of things separated from him only by a door, knowing that he is forever cut off from experiencing them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was news to those angry grassroots Negroes steadily adding steam to their March plans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As with all matters that pertained to the Negro’s safety, education, economic mobility, political power, and humanity, the black press put their readers’ mixed feelings about the war on full display. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Negro scholars ahead of us don’t seem inclined to say anything, and I cannot just let a man commit suicide, even if it is in the name of science. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It didn’t presage the kind of racial violence that could spring out of nowhere, striking even the most economically secure Negroes like kerosene poured on a smoldering ember. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Negro men were visibly fighting their emotions; one kept smashing his fist into the other cupped palm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorothy was the kind of young person who filled the Negro race with hope that its future in America would be more propitious than its past. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I knew that southern whites hated the idea of Negroes leaving to live in places where the racial atmosphere was different. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just off the bow. And it’s true. He really does have a Negro with him.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Newsome Park was an outsize replica of virtually every Negro community in the South, where racial segregation fostered economic integration. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid there will always be people—even other Negroes—who feel that way about rootwork, Jez. In fact, they would rather forget it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Jackie Robinson,” Mrs. Rappaport continued, “is a man, the first Negro to play baseball in the major leagues.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The whites stepped down without response, but the Negro lady nodded politely to him and said, “Thank you,” knowing full well his warning had not been meant for her. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “If I was a Negro girl—” He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the Negroes who frequented Rubsamen’s Medical Supply noticed my grandfather’s preoccupation with the dream book, and after he won for two weeks in a row, word spread. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My children would want to know who is this large, bald Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The already Croesus-rich white man can’t get another skyscraper hotel finished and opened before all these integration-mad Negroes, who themselves don’t own a tool shed, are booking the swanky new hotel for “cotillions” and “conventions.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like virtually every Negro woman she knew, she struggled to find the balance between spending time with her children at home and spending time for them, for her family, at a job. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I puzzled and puzzled for a way to upset him, and to give those Negroes present something to think and talk about and circulate. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X exploded to me, “How in the hell can my talk do this? It’s always a Negro responsible, not what the white man does!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, rumor flashed that in the Braddock Hotel, white cops had shot a Negro soldier. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dramatization of slavery never failed intensely to arouse Negroes hearing its honors spelled out for the first time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a light, kind of red- complexioned Negro, as I was; about my height, and he had freckles. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than owing and paying a debt to society, Negro prisoners feel that they are being abused, that their imprisonment is simply another form of the oppression which they have known all their lives. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their other hosts had been either truck drivers or soldiers—and, once, a pair of Negro prizefighters driving a lavender Cadillac. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro writers and artists regarded Malcolm as the great catalyst, the man who inspired self-respect and devotion in the downtrodden millions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Says the woman who comes to the Roseland on Negro night. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Technology! Innovation! A modernized state in which all Americans—Negroes, whites, Indians—could live together.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I felt that Communists could not possibly have a sincere interest in Negroes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drovers they brought here to oversee the Negro patrols and fortify the border think the Negroes in your part of town should be taking all the risk to herd the dead, not them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Negroes, it seems, preferred more contemporary music and turned up their transistor radios loudly and defiantly whenever Myma began one of her lugubrious dirges. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Bloodgood did not want any Negro families in the town. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the brutish Negro seemed indifferent to his fate, as though inquests, trials, and even the looming certainty of the electric chair held no terror for him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was Malcolm’s intention to raise Negro militancy to a new high point with the main thrust aimed at both the Southern and Northern white supremacists. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro organizations to whom I appealed for support bounced me back and forth like a shuttlecock on a badminton court. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Negro woman got to the ditch, I told her what we wanted. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Negroes worked as maids, bellmen, and kitchen help, while Italian and Eastern European immigrants attended the dining room. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We in this room—we Negroes—have another mission that is for ourselves alone. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The esteemed Negro writers Miss Kimble talked about when I first visited the library. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

While I was eating supper in a near-by cafe one night, a strange Negro man walked in and sat beside me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have been told that many distinguished Negroes whose careers have brought them South encounter similar difficulties. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all the stories hailing Durham as the home of the New Negro, blacks there lived a life not much different from that of blacks in other Southern cities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They never dream that they would face a situation far more terrifying if they were confronted by Negroes who made no claims at all than by those who are buoyed by social aggressiveness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In short, over the last ten years the Negro decided to straighten his back up, realizing that a man cannot ride your back unless it is bent. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro who turns now, in the moment of near-realization of his liberties, and bares his fangs at a man’s whiteness, makes the same tragic error the white racist has made. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jennifer once asked me what it felt like—to be Negro. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“But there are plenty of Negroes who believe what we do ain’t right either. That it ain’t godly. So we get a hard time from both sides.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Here was an opportunity for the production of a worth-while Negro drama and no one was aware of it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was vague about where the Negro state could be established. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the business grew, so did Spaulding’s influence in national Negro affairs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This thing happens so often that to my mind it had become a representative symbol of the Negro’s uncertain position in America. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I continued my work, filled with all the possible meanings that that tiny, simple, human event could have meant to any Negro in the South where I had spent most of my hungry days. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Negroes have half the income of whites. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Because the only Negros allowed to fly in World War II had planes with red tails.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Muslims react to this fact by referring to the Negro as “the so-called American Negro” and substituting for the names inherited from slavery the letter “X.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

They looked with hatred at the city Negro who could buy a car as if it were a bottle of whiskey because the one he had was broken. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a meeeeeean place back when your G’pop and I were young, and that book existed to let Negro travelers know which hotels and such would accept them as customers. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Because failing out of Miss Preston's means going to one of the other Negro combat schools, and none of them are half as good as Miss Preston's. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“There was a man back then: Medgar Wiley Evers. Fought for this country in World War Two, then came home to fight for Negro rights. Real good fella,” she says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

A fragment of memory returned—recollection of myself as a youngster reading Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit, her description of the Negro boy stopping along a lonely path to urinate. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Observe him, Brothers. After putting the movement in the position of forcing a traitor down the throats of the Negroes he asks what a traitor is." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You went out in a Negro’s dory. How do you know what might happen?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

All along the route, Negroes placed their hats or hands over their hearts, paying their final respects. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A certain friend of his, a Negro pharmacist, gave an award of five dollars every year to the high-school student who wrote the best essay on a given subject. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sounded more like a white man than a Negro. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly all of the faces you see down here are Negro. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It sounded like a Negro voice to me.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that Negroes led so passional an existence! Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them was a striking Negro man, tall, slender, elegantly dressed—the “Valentino” type. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rallied all the white people and they made sure the Negro family application was denied. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Quietly, quickly, and without protest, three “unusually capable” Negro students began graduate studies at West Virginia University in Morgantown in the summer of 1940. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But everybody knows there’s a difference between a colored preacher preaching in a white kitchen or at the Negro entertainments and the same man preaching in a white parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My interest in what was happening in the institute amused the three other Negroes with whom I worked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t really interested in all the other things, I just knew I wouldn’t have to keep sending Gallup polls out to Negroes all around the country. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He drove through the Negro sections of the town in the high Dodge automobile he had used for the past nine years. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

All people ever talked about after church were the Negroes and whether they’d get their civil rights. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What happened there was “part of a far larger movement...the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recalled hearing some Negro say, “You can live here all your life, but you’ll never get inside one of the great restaurants except as kitchen boy.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Negroes, 'black people,' I don't care what they're called," Ma says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And my father would talk about how it would not be much longer before Africa would be completely run by Negroes—“by black men,” was the phrase he always used. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It served as the de facto public secondary school for the city’s Negro students, since the city provided schooling for them only through elementary school. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Like Bigger himself, I felt a mental censor—product of the fears which a Negro feels from living in America—standing over me, draped in white, warning me not to write. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the platform my eyes skimmed over the whites and searched among the Negroes who were walking up and down expectantly. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it vaguely illuminating that the Negro Griffin’s sweat felt exactly the same to his body as the white Griffin’s. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there an agreement among realtors as to what Negroes should be charged for rent?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The best boxer to ever step into the ring, and a Negro besides. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I asked a timid question I found that even Jewish doctors had learned to imitate the sadistic method of humbling a Negro that the native-born whites had cultivated. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the three Negroes who worked with me, one was a boy of about my own age, Bill, who was either sleepy or drunk most of the time. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is known, however, that at least some of these are from Caucasians, and that at least one, HeLa, is from a Negro.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Negroes were starting to get very tense in Harlem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pay wasn’t nothing like the same, but we had some good players in the Negro Leagues. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro secretary of the meeting looked frightened, glancing at Nealson, Evans, and Ed Green. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard that Negroes were dirty I remembered Mrs. Cooper’s shining kitchen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we were driving somewhere, motorists along the highway would wave to Malcolm X, the faces of both whites and Negroes spontaneously aglow with the wonderment that I had seen evoked by other “celebrities.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver had mastered one of the techniques of degrading the Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, as I listened to the Communist Negro speakers, I wondered if the Negro, blasted by three hundred years of oppression, could possibly cast off his fear and corruption and rise to the task. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Malcolm X, what about your comment that Negroes should form rifle clubs? ...” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was for this reason that some of his most bristling counter-attacks against “these so-called educated Uncle Thomases, Ph.D.” were flung out at his audiences at Negro institutions of higher learning. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brazilian maps say that the Amazon begins at the conjunction of the Negro and Solimoes. knock birds from the trees, and docks for loading local farmers’ produce. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bulk of the Negroes were either on Welfare, or W.P. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my own shame, when I say all of this I’m talking first of all about myself—because you can’t show me any Negro who ever conked more faithfully than I did. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis said, “He asked—” “What happened to the Negro, made him spew?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It has never ceased to amaze me how so many Negroes, then and now, could stand the indignity of that kind of self-delusion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, an increase began in the membership percentage of educated and trained Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most important part: guess who is being inducted into the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum after all? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever employed any of the Negroes you helped to educate?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Elijah Muhammad spoke of how in this wilderness of North America, for centuries the “blue-eyed devil white man” had brainwashed the “so-called Negro.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Pakistan Hurriyet of Karachi said: “A great Negro leader”; the Pakistan Times said, “His death is a definite setback to the Negro movement for emancipation.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment a Negro drove up in an old car and stopped. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m asking Nealson for that chance right now,” I said, wondering what connection there could be between a Dracula mystery and Negro culture. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Searched even more closely were the relatively few non- Muslim Negroes who came to be spectators, and the press representatives both white and black. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I studied at a Negro teachers’ college in Maryland. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Charles said, “Now look. Mercy’s a good Christian hospital but they don’t want to see all you...Negroes showing up at once. I’ll take the mother and father. Road’s still not good.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Gee, thanks a lot, muffin. Negroes, you say,” Bull teased. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was transferred by the relief authorities from the South Side Boys’ Club to the Federal Negro Theater to work as a publicity agent. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought the Negro paper believed in reporting the truth,” Stella pressed, frowning. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Two Negro teams were playing baseball and a crowd of spectators alternately booed and cheered their favorites. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not mix much with other Negroes, but were respected by them and self- sustaining. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down to enjoy adult Negro dramatics. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty or forty yards from us where the bank sloped gradually into shallow water, four Negro boys were horsing around in the water. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then: A curious sidelight was revealed today when it became known that the apartment building in which the Negro killer lived is owned and managed by a sub-firm of the Dalton Real Estate Company. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Observing how excited some of the women seemed to become, she finally arranged some dates with some of the Harlem Negroes she knew at her own apartment. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think it’s okay if whites and Negroes go to school together,” I asked Judy, “don’t you?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no praise anthems, nor old Negro spirituals. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Your Honor, there are four times as many Negroes in America today as there were people in the original Thirteen Colonies when they struck for their freedom. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Edward Brodas was known as the Master to his Negro slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big posters out in front advertised the nationally famous bands, white and Negro, that had played there. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The miracle was the sudden appearance of a third hitchhiker, a Negro soldier, for whom the charitable salesman stopped. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I saw other Negroes better off; they lived in blocks of rundown red brick houses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again and again, Cassius startled those Negroes, telling them, “You’re my own kind. I get my strength from being around my own black people.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her phone rings without an answer, and I wonder if she’s out dancing with some other Negro. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There going to be some Negroes at this new school?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

This, of course, excludes the trash element, which is the same everywhere and is no more evident among Negroes than whites. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t even thinking about Laura when she came up to me in the drugstore and asked me to take her to the next Negro dance at the Roseland. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had virtually no contact whatever with Negroes...the only time I really saw them was when we would go downtown in Durham on occasion late in the day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When you have Negro guests, do you have any trouble with your white guests?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet as we shall see below, Negroes stood only a “brief moment in the sun.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I read that article you wrote for the New Masses about Joe Louis. Good stuff. . . First political treatment of sports we’ve yet had. Ha-ha . . .” “I’m trying to reveal the meaning of Negro experience,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take starting a private high school for the Negroes, for example. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here in America, in this day, the simple act of whites receiving a Negro had to be a night thing and its aura of uneasiness had to be countered by gallows humor. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just answer the questions. Had Miss Dalton, to your knowledge, ever had sex relations with a Negro before?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever did it, aside from being a fool, was said to be a “tall, light-skinned” Negro, masked with a woman’s stocking. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some Negroes who are really light skinned and have straight hair try it.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was rare, though, for Negroes to ask white people where they’re from, because there was nothing much to be gained from it, as their stories weren’t that likely to link up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that time, they had a laughing bet going that I wasn’t going to last, sales or not, because I had so rapidly become such an uncouth, wild young Negro. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was the danger in showing the kinship between the sufferings of the Negro and the sufferings of other people? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The message I get from it is that if it were lawful, there’d be a wholesale rush to marry Negroes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

After supper I took the trolley into town and walked through some of the Negro sections in the South Rampart-Dryades Street sections. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not heard of any Negroes being molested recently, but he felt that it was always possible. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning I found breakfast in a little Negro cafe—coffee and toast— and then walked down to the highway to begin hitching. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had successfully fought Consolidated Edison and the New York Telephone Company until they had hired Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In January, 1863, shortly after Lincoln had proclaimed the slaves free, she saw a regiment of Negro soldiers for the first time. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young Negro boy had been found stomped to death in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their worst crime was their involvement with Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black “leaders” were out in the public eye—to be seen by the Negroes for whom they were supposed to be fighting the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I knew about black people—or Negroes, which was the preferred term at that time—was primarily what I saw on 125th Street, in the newspapers, and in church. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A Negro engineer monitored recording equipment between the altar and the coffin which was guarded by eight uniformed Negro policemen and two uniformed Negro policewomen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll have you know that I'm married to a fine, intelligent Negro girl," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is the owner of Sepia, an internationally distributed Negro magazine with a format similar to that of Look. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if the local Negroes hadn’t been causing any “trouble,” the “benevolent” white man might nod and give them a school, or some jobs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Leave all these Negro girls alone. Focus on your books. Get your degree.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Negro seemed quite resigned and blew out a new cloud of blue smoke that enveloped him and the old man and the little cards. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whites have always hidden or justified all of the guilts they could by ridiculing or blaming Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the left is a list of businesses that trade with and hire Negroes, and on the right is a list of stores to boycott. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“No, I want to work among Negroes. That’s where people are needed. It seems as though they’ve been pushed out of everything.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cross my arms, as next to me Katherine mutters, “He did not just compare Negroes to apes.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A bomb exploded, and it proved just another day in the life of Birmingham Negroes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Another white church in Bumblebee sent a couple of boxes of goods, as well as both Negro churches in Bumblebee, and even one in Spindale. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But it seemed to me that here at last in the realm of revolutionary expression was where Negro experience could find a home, a functioning value and role. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negroes experienced an intense flash of pride and the streetcar moved on its journey without incident. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Suesetta says, “the Detroit Housewives’ League has helped to create seventy thousand jobs for Negro men and women.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I asked myself: “What will Negro doctors, lawyers, dentists, bankers, school teachers, social workers and business men, think of me if I draw such a picture of Bigger?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We felt an incident boiling, but none of us wanted the young Negro, who had paid for his ticket, to be forced to vacate his seat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro sees and reacts differently not because he is Negro, but because he is suppressed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And an even clearer proof for me of how Jews truly regard Negroes, I said, was what invariably happened wherever a Negro moved into any white residential neighborhood that was thickly Jewish. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he know that Negroes like my grandfather had been freed during those days just before the college had been founded? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Derbigny Street I had coffee in a small Negro cafe called the Two Sisters Restaurant. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had heard about people trying to be “not just another Negro.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In 1923 she became the first black concert artist to record Negro spirituals for a major American recording company, the Victor Talking Machine Company. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Its similar to what we’ve seen in the South with the Negro, where the plague often fails to spread widely within populations of colored peoples.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It’s a slow, haunting melody about the horror and the senselessness of lynching innocent Negroes. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Negroes? You don’t think they have a chance?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Negro’s throat had been slashed so that the head was rolled back at a crazy angle. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Perry had known, under the circumstances stated, a Negro named King. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Negro I’d ever known had made a point of flashing whatever money he had. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing Down” advertisements drew poor Negroes into that store like flypaper. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would like for you all to ask the town band and the Negro band to come play parade music and also tunes like ‘Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-de-Ay’ and lively hymns like ‘When They Ring Them Golden Bells.’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

On the bed lay the terrible Negro he had met on the stairs at Singer’s house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If I had stayed on in Michigan, I would probably have married one of those Negro girls I knew and liked in Lansing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was when it began being said that I was America’s only Negro who ‘ ‘could stop a race riot—or start one. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro woman lifted her head and looked at the organizer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s interesting—not man and beast, not black and white, but pleasant things. My wife told me of an old old man who said, ‘I remember a time when Negroes had no souls. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light gleamed from the elderly Negro’s head as he looked up to talk to the Negro woman. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about forty Negro actors and actresses in the theater, lolling about, yearning, disgruntled, not knowing what to do with themselves. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

White men did not often joke with Negroes, therefore what he had said was serious. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being the token Negro was something I was never entirely comfortable with. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the good things in life, the Negro has approximately one half those of whites. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Negroes were poor enough to be kind, but they could not trust any white man no matter how poor, and the poor white men had a fear of strangers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It called for all people in America, including Negroes, to have equal access to jobs and public school education. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You all must be the dumbest unhung Negroes on earth. What they telling you in them schools? You say ‘Hi’ to pigs and sheep when you want ’em to move. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbuiy acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I definitely don’t say that Negro improvement is what Papa died for, either. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost alone among politicians of the South, Mayor Hartsfield has not sunk to the level of winning votes at the Negro’s expense. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe’s funeral was the finest thing Orange County had ever seen with Negro eyes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“And you think helping a Negro girl is going to do that?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

An old Negro woman told hundreds of people that he knew the ways of spirits come back from the dead. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They remind me of so many of the Negro “intellectuals,” so-called, with whom I have come in contact—they are always arguing about something useless. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Bay Shore, separated as it was by a rope from larger, whites-only Buckroe Beach, still reminded clients that there was Negro sand and there was white sand. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“History, Thomas, is the story of who we are. And sometimes, Negro history is told by people who don’t think we’re important. People who don’t think we make a difference in the world.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was the finest in New York City where Negroes could then stay, years before the downtown hotels would accept the black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would watch the faces of those intellectual and professional Negroes growing grave, and set—as the truth hit home to them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we says to each other, Them Negro violinists in the orchestra should know. Because if Lord Dunmore frees them in Virginia, General Howe might too, up this way.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Negro wheeled the food cart into the patients' dining room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Of all the Negro Communists I knew, I tried to determine who could be called a Trotskyite, and I could think of none. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered how he felt about Negroes, and didn’t plan on saying anything to him about Emmett and the river. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was as nearly white as a Negro can get without being white, which means that she was white. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I recalled hearing that white people looked upon Negroes as a variety of children, and it was only in the light of that that her question made any sense. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even then, Negroes were ready to redeem their lives for their long overdue inheritance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It would be safe to say that she made me proud to be Negro, just by being herself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years after the end of the war, the shortage of adequate housing for the area’s Negro residents was still the reality. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We moved silently, Brother Jack following two very black Negroes and two white men who led the procession, and now the roar of the crowd seemed to rise above us, flaring louder. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The back seats are for Negroes. You have to move to the front of the bus." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Several hundred Negroes resembling Bigger Thomas were rounded up from South Side “hot spots”; they are being held for investigation. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You look like Negro Chinese,” she lamented, as if I had done this on purpose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below the Sahara, in the places where most of America’s Negroes’ foreparents were kidnapped, there is being unearthed some of the finest craftsmanship, sculpture and other objects, that has ever been seen by modem man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was always going to thrift stores and coming back with old albums of polka music, Negro spirituals, German marching bands, Italian operas, and cattle roundup songs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here the Negro has always been deprived of these. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There’s more folks moving into the nice part of town, but we haven’t gotten any new Negroes for the patrols. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Does not the life of a Negro girl mean as much in the eyes of the law as the life of a white girl? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jews, Negroes, South Americans of pure Indian blood are to be found in the highest ranks of the Party, and the administrators of any area are always drawn from the inhabitants of that area. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Flow else except by becoming a Negro could a white man hope to learn the truth? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when I was white, I received the brotherly-love smiles and the privileges from whites and the hate stares or obsequiousness from the Negroes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you try to keep that Negro from Miss Dalton?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And your pitiful cooking, Orleanna? The way to a young Negro’s heart is through his stomach—is that what you were counting on?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a contact point for later in the evening and urged any Negro man who wanted to earn five dollars for himself to find him a date within this price category. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re supposed to call them Negroes, Daddy,” Karen said, highly offended by her father’s vulgarity. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the town, of course, but that part of town where the Negroes lived, the part they called the Bottom in spite of the fact that it was up in the hills. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was their own pride, their patriotism, their deep and abiding belief in the possibility of democracy that inspired the Negro people. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Allen School was founded in 1887 by white United Methodist missionaries, with the goal of providing talented Negro girls from Appalachian North Carolina with the best possible start in life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He read aloud a long article in which lynching was passionately advocated as a solution for the problem of the Negro. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you tell that drunken Negro to call you Jan instead of Mr. Erlone?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another was Samuel Smith’s Negro slave, Ned—the same one who’d first come running to report that the British were coming. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ended it with the observation that a Negro man had a hard row to hoe in this world. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Five of our number labored to remove the fowls and swine to the tender while another five of us stood guard—and soon espied a party of Negroes approaching to repulse us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Negroes crossed the street to avoid him when he walked his 125th Street and Seventh Avenue beat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came back before they dumped the Negro they found in the cave. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dorothy was eight, the family relocated to Morgantown, West Virginia, where her father accepted a job working for a successful Negro restaurateur. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Used to be, Negro boxers weren’t even allowed in the ring with whites. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Psychologically he was the most amazing specimen of the southern Negro I had ever met. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were much better off than the town Negroes who would shout, as my father preached, for the pie-in-the-sky and their heaven in the hereafter while the white man had his here on earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited until I saw a Negro use the phone, and then I hurried to it, closed the door and asked the long-distance operator to call my home collect. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My relationship to him had been the typical relationship of Negroes to southern whites. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a picture of Marcus Garvey on the living-room wall, talking about going back to Africa, talking about the power of blackness and the strength of the Negro heart. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can the American Negro past be used? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I think you care about those Negroes more than your own family.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the universal images of the Negro, in prison and out, was that he couldn’t do without pork. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first afternoon as a Negro was one of dragging hours and a certain contentment. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nicely dressed, respectable Negro women, even the aged, could not draw from him the courteous warning, “Watch your step.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Negro drove Miss Dalton to the Loop where she was joined by a young white man, a friend of hers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Then let’s put this on a practical basis right now. Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters? Do you want them in our world?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Finally a speaker came forward and spoke of Chicago’s South Side, its Negro population, their sufferings, and handicaps, linking all that, also, to the world struggle. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking along Dryades, through the ghetto, I realized that every informed man with whom I had spoken, in the intimate freedom of the colored bond, had acknowledged a double problem for the Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing since Joe Louis had so coalesced the masses of Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claytor, who earned a PhD in math from the University of Pennsylvania in 1933, was only the third Negro in the country to obtain the credential. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I convoked a meeting and introduced DeSheim to the Negro company, telling them that he was a man who knew the theater, who would lead them toward serious dramatics. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you hear me? That dog’s trained to attack Negroes. Now get from that dog.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They all had city jobs, which I now understand to have been no mean feat for Negro men. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For twenty or more years the March on Washington idea had floated around among Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no applause, none, and yet thousands of patrons packed the vast and gaudy room—a strange audience, mostly men and mostly Negroes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would be doing what the segregationists wanted—setting up separate schools. Not to mention that it would be betraying the nine Negro students at Central who suffered through last year.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now here they were again, in Detroit, on the heads of two handsome young Negroes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Downtown, they letting Negroes set at the Wool- worth counter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was the first Negro to win a singles tennis championship there. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m sure, however, they monitored what I wrote to add to the files which every state and federal prison keeps on the conversion of Negro inmates by the teachings of Mr. Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be one of those “Negroes living in poverty,” as the news often put it. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

DeSheim made a speech wherein he said that he was not at the theater to direct it, but to help the Negroes to direct it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said at that college that the guilt of American whites included their knowledge that in hating Negroes, they were hating, they were rejecting, they were denying, their own blood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls I really wanted to have were a couple of Negro girls whom Wilfred or Philbert had introduced me to in Lansing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The courtroom was so packed with spectators that the small old Negro man had to push his way through the crowd to get to the witness chair. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Splendid. 1 don’t like those Negroes in town. Dog people come and the man that delivers the dog food once a week. They come. They’ll find me. I just hope it’s soon.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then when the place was ready to close, early in the morning, she would let a Negro take her as far as the subway entrance. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This the boy never talked to a Negro before?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Clean on back there to the back,” a large drunk Negro said, pointing with a wild swinging gesture that almost made him lose his balance. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"College for Negroes! Boy, what do you know other than how to ruin an institution in half an hour that it took over half a hundred years to build? Did he talk northern or southern?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter, Congress funded the Negro and Native Reeducation Act and dozens of schools like Miss Preston's were created in cities as large as Baltimore and as small as Trenton. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Depression- fueled collapse in cotton prices hit the area hard, and the school system simply shut its doors, leaving no public education for the rural county’s Negro students. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

‘For the rights of the Negro in the South.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Running might be undignified for well-bred ladies, but for a passel of Negro girls destined to work cleanup, it's just fine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Working nights, I spent my days in experimental writing, filling endless pages with stream-of-consciousness Negro dialect, trying to depict the dwellers of the Black Belt as I felt and saw them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We filed out into the high- roofed garage and stood in line, the Negroes to the rear, the whites to the front. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to me Katherine whispers, “Sit down, Jane!” while a few of the ladies in the gallery exclaim over the rudeness of this new crop of Negroes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Old Blunderbuss, as the newspapers call Mayor Carr, was the one that established Baltimore’s Negro patrol squads a few years ago, right after I arrived at Miss Preston’s. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X rarely exchanged any words with those Negro men with shiny, “processed” hair without giving them a nudge. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We Muslims were less extroverted than Christian Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Master W. D. Fard gave to Elijah Muhammad Allah’s message, and Allah’s divine guidance, to save the Lost-Found Nation of Islam, the so-called Negroes, here in “this wilderness of North America.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently, white Americans are in nothing more deluded than in supposing that Negroes could ever have imagined that white people would “give” them anything. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Today, two older Negro men sat in the chairs above, though neither was getting a shine. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

No, it was more like, Do you think it's a good idea for whites and Negroes to go to school together? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I saw Ned, Samuel Smith’s Negro, come running up the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among Negroes the tradition was to give presents to children going only from one grade to another. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This poem is by Gwendolyn Brooks, another Negro poet,” she said, sitting on the edge of her desk again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was in Culpeper, Virginia, washing clothes in a hotel, when she learned that there was a colony of Negro farmers on an island off the coast of Virginia. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There I was, wearing my gun, and the detective talking to that Negro with his back to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I did show my face again, the Negroes I knew rode me so badly I knew I had to do something. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They felt that it was much easier and safer to rob their own people, for they knew that white policemen never really searched diligently for Negroes who committed crimes against other Negroes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’d seen the pictures of a bunch of really mad white people with twisted-up faces screaming and giving dirty finger signs to some Utde Negro kids who were trying to go to school. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked young, not over twenty, and I wondered how he had es-caped the habit of guarded fencing that goes on constantly between whites and Negroes in the South wherever they meet. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Urban League shaped the attitude of bosses with lectures on topics such as “How to Handle Negro Labor.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I know it’s bound to hurt the feelings of some of my good conked non-Muslim friends—but if you study closely any conked or “processed” Negro, you usually find he is an ignorant Negro. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in 1910, a Negro real estate man somehow got two or three Negro families into one Jewish Harlem apartment house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro preacher who had given him the cross had come and he had driven him away. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m light skinned and they don't like light-skinned Negroes there.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

This religion taught the “Negro” that black was a curse. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said that if enslaved Negroes enjoyed all the good things of life that their masters said they did, there would be no runaway slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was referring to a Negro boy of about my own age who worked across the street for a rival optical house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In re-pose, it had taken on the strained, disconsolate expression that is written on the countenance of so many Southern Negroes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day was to come when our family was so poor that we would eat the hole out of a doughnut; but at that time we were much better off than most town Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as a small Negro girl and her mother descended the grand staircase and entered the kitchen, the house finally, finally understood the change in the air. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I had to guard against the easy, semiobscene language that Negroes use among themselves, for coming from a white man it is insulting. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was brought back to Greenwood and turned over to the Century Burial Association, local Negro undertakers. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

On their marginal street the West Indian Negroes were singing their Saturday psalms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had very distinct reservations about Negro professional intelligentsia as a category. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are others, Your Honor, millions of others, Negro and white, and that is what makes our future seem a looming image of violence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We debated the housing situation, the best means of forcing the city to authorize open hearings on conditions among Negroes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could the Negro ever possess himself, learn to know what had happened to him in relation to the aspirations of Western society? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is an accomplishment whose consequences are deeply felt by every southern Negro in his daily life. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They would participate in customers’ most frequent exhibition requests—a sleek, black Negro male having a white woman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assumed that Reginald, like most of the Negroes I knew, would go for a white woman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one outside of the Negro community could imagine the profound effect this action had in killing the Negro’s hope and breaking his morale. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also amused were some of the room’s ten or twelve Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I picked up a side of the sheet and walked right in the calaboose with the men. I walked in the calaboose carrying a rotten dead Negro.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song reinforced all the crudest stereotypes of what a Negro could do or be. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I left, sick with exhaustion, wondering where a Negro could sit to rest. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese shops which sold products to Nisei customers were taken over by enterprising Negro businessmen, and in less than a year became permanent homes away from home for the newly arrived Southern Blacks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

America’s Negroes—especially older Negroes—are too indelibly soaked in Christianity’s double standard of oppression. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This means that the Negro has been allowed to stand on his own merit; he has not been patronized as a dependent, neither has he met enmity and persecution because of his success or failure. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro middle class—the Negro “establishment”—abhorred and feared Malcolm as much as he despised it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days white people in the North usually would “adopt” just a few Negroes; they didn’t see them as any threat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the boys at the hotel whispered to me one night that the only local Negro movie house wanted a boy to take tickets at the door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Negro boy, Bigger Thomas, is a part of a furious blaze of liquid life- energy which once blazed and is still blazing in our land. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the 1964 “long, hot summer” steadily producing new incidents, I was constantly accused of “stirring up Negroes.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes lived a truer and deeper life than they, but I wished that Negroes, too, could live as thoughtlessly, serenely as they. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to West Virginia, the state’s Negro residents thought, Virginia was the South. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Negro took some silver spoons and a sauce boat when he ran, and left our household in circumstances the most outrageous. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Was there a place in New Orleans where a Negro could buy huitres variees? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He read: Overwhelmed by the sight of his accusers, Bigger Thomas, Negro sex-slayer, fainted dramatically this morning at the inquest of Mary Dalton, millionaire Chicago heiress. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Negro resistance to this injustice had been a constant ever since the first ship carried enslaved Africans to Old Point Comfort on Hampton’s shores in 1609. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“They’re going to treat any Negro like a dog,” Sterling said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They laughed & then ran to Prince & studied him, having seen few Negroes, I reckon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Says he just wants to ask him some questions ’bout that Negro boy got killed up in Money.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A pleasant young Negro woman took my order and fixed my breakfast: eggs, grits, bread and coffee—forty-nine cents—no butter and no napkin. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake could not draw his eyes away from the Negro’s terrible face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The black manager hired some Negro hoodlums to go hunting for the hold-up man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the drive against Negro Trotskyism went on, though I was too remote from it to know what was happening. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly was unaccustomed to being this close to a Negro, and she marveled at how dark and mysterious the girl’s face looked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Act like a good Negro, and everything’s going to be fine. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably somebody as hateful to Negroes as R.C., but I didn’t want to think about it. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Indeed, scarcely was Native Son off the press before Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black gave the nation a long and vivid account of the American police methods of handling Negro boys. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was encountering for the first time the full-fledged Negro Puritan invert—the emotionally sick—and I discovered that their ideas were but excuses for sex, leads to sex, hints at sex, substitutes for sex. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I told him where I lived, he said what I already knew— that nobody in town could stand the Hill Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rydell had done some awful things to a Negro boy while we were fishing. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She went on scolding, “Delphine. What do you mean running through the airport, knocking down a white man, causing a grand Negro spectacle for all the world to see?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We had never had any instruction in literary matters at school; the literature of the nation or the Negro had never been mentioned. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is the case only with the relative handful of these “integration”-mad Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine hearing their own white husbands, their own white wives, even their own white children, talking about “those Negroes.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of us are a few of Baltimore's educated colored men, who teach at the city college for Negroes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As the commission observed, this “suggests the conclusion that whites were not apprehended as readily as Negroes.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A body of people came down the platform, some of them Negroes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

At such a time, the Negro can look at the starlit skies and find that he has, after all, a place in the universal order of things. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had I kept the job I would have learned quickly just how white people acted toward Negroes, but I was too naive to think that there were many white people like that. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he scowled as he said it, and I realized then, certain as could be, that when asked if Negroes and whites should go to school together, he had voted yes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am a creation of the Northern white man and of his hypocritical attitude toward the Negro. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely, if the Jews had found freedom after thousands of years, then one day Negroes, too, would enter their Promised Land. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’d hear a Negro ex-soldier say: “What in hell did I fight in the war for? They segregated me even when I was offering my life for my country.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro leader, the “successful” man in Atlanta, is deeply imbued with a sense of responsibility toward his community. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, it makes no sense, but insofar as the Negro is concerned, nothing makes much sense. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro’s ladder to the American dream was missing rungs, with even the most outwardly successful blacks worried that at any moment the forces of discrimination could lay waste to their economic security. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I could just hear people: “A reddish- brown Negro over six feet tall.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They see it also as the only possible way out of the morass in which the Negro finds himself. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro women wore simple cotton farm dresses without hats; most of the Negro men and boys wore blue bib overalls, the same kind Grampa always wore. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The true purpose of the struggle for desegregation, charged an Alabama state senator, was “to open the bedroom door of our white women to Negro men.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Negroes were allowed to use this library now—that rule had passed a few years ago—but I didn’t see them there much. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dammitall, Hiram, you ought to be smart enough to know newspapers make mistakes. Rumors are always flying around in cases like these, and the lawyers made it clear that those Negro witnesses lacked reliability.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Upon one day, the Negroes in the city were swept up into a general work-party, for which the pay was in no coin but stale dinner. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I dont know what the people would do,” he said in his letter to his brother, “if it was not for the Negroes, as they are the Principal nurses.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes sir, us. You. Has anybody, in all the wrangling and high words over states’ rights and what kind of government we should have, thought about helping the Negroes? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The parade was led by the town band and the Negro band, which rode in a mule-drawn wagon. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A naked woman smiling concupiscently at the camera fornicated with a donkey, a German shepherd, a Negro, and her own finger. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh-ho-ho, who do we have here?” asked a large Negro woman tending a pot on the stove. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Negroes would talk about how a lot of whites seemed unable to have enough of being close around us, and among us—in groups. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What this boy has done will not influence my relations with the Negro people. Why, only today I sent a dozen ping-pong tables to the South Side Boys’ Club. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now, it is extremely unlikely that Negroes will ever rise to power in the United States, because they are only approximately a ninth of this nation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It was the world where, behind locked doors, Negroes catered to monied white people’s weird sexual tastes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these matters, the Negro has seen the backside of the white man too long to be shocked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not own slaves nor believe in slavery, but he does not believe that the Negro, “in the present stage of his development,” can be considered the equal of the white man. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of all to which they have been subjected, Negroes are nonetheless a rather pleasant folk for the most part. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was filled with revulsion by the notion that Jews, Negroes, and other vagabond races from around the world would come traipsing through Germany. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He rang the bell for the car to stop, got off and walked through the quiet Negro streets. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As a Harlem habitud, she had known Harlem Negroes who liked white women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It forced me to fill my gas tank and compelled me to stop and offer a ride to an old Negro who trudged with heavy heels in the grass- grown verge beside the concrete road. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her in-laws were mainstays of the town’s Negro elite. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He knew that whites thought that all Negroes yearned for white women, therefore he wanted to show a certain fearful deference even when one’s name was mentioned in his presence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like Negroes particularly, but she saw no reason why they should always be beaten. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fair person will try to sever social relations he may have with darker relatives... the darker members of a Negro family will encourage the efforts of a very fair relative to “pass” for White. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But it’s not as big as a .38.1 had faced down some dangerous Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you consent for her to marry a Negro?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I decided he might be the contact for my entry into the Negro community. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eugenic Parenthood for the Negro Race was what he would exhort them to. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Whereas white residents of the boomtowns might have seen these conflicts as caused by the war, Negroes, long conditioned to racial enmity in close quarters, were weary of the same old battles. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Negro railroad men waited for their trains in their big locker room on the lower level of Grand Central Station. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had stopped throughout the rural South to teach Negroes folk songs she had learned at the Library of Congress. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not a false face; it is simply different from the one the Negro sees. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The town wouldn’t let Negroes in the church cemetery.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“There were no Negro drivers,” recalled Martin Luther King, Jr., of the Montgomery buses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Each day now I saw how the Negro in Chicago lived, for I visited hundreds of dingy flats filled with rickety furniture and ill-clad children. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other Negroes worked in the building: an old man whom we called Edison; his son, John; and a night janitor who answered to the name of Dave. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I know the masses of Negroes very well,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when a group of men came in, boasting of having beaten a Negro to death, my grandfather refused to serve them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I was never in one of those panel discussions without some of them just waiting their chance to accuse me of “inciting Negroes to violence.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro lady with the snappy oval bag didn’t give us a glance as she click-clacked on by. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro’s so-called “revolt” is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Constitution was written, a strange formula to determine taxes and representation declared that the Negro was sixty percent of a person. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So why, I ask you, would her husband go out of his way to injure a Negro boy who had committed no offense against him or his family? Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Every one of those “Negro progress” organizations had the same composition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dalton, you give millions to help Negroes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It became the richest, most powerful society in the history of man, but it left the Negro far behind. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the battle was fought atop Bunker Hill, I saw a Negro man upon the road from Charlestown. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knew as a Negro he wasn’t going to get a big slice of the pie. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wrestling with my body to assume an upward arrangement, I saw a collage of Negro, Mexican and white races outside the windows. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A vast amount, of course, is contributed by Negroes, but there are rumors to the effect that people like Birchites and certain Texas oil millionaires look with favor on the movement. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie and Mr. Taylor were frozen like people in a book on the history of the American Negro. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reginald and I went to the Savoy Ballroom, the Apollo Theater, the Braddock Hotel bar, the nightclubs and speakeasies, wherever Negroes played music. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around expecting others to gawk and point at us Negroes, carrying on. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of Little Rock citizens are gathered in front of Central High School awaiting the arrival of the Negro children. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this same Band of Music, only the Winds are Regular Soldiers, the Rest being common Citizens, many of them Negro Fiddlers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like most bars in Harlem, Negroes fronted, and a Jew really owned the place. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said that Boris A. Max, the Negro’s Communistic lawyer, will enter a plea of not guilty and try to free his client through a long drawn-out jury trial. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I gave him some pamphlets on the Negro question.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Peking, China People’s Daily said the killing happened “because Malcolm X . . . fought for the emancipation of the 23,000,000 American Negroes.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Army was too busy fighting the dead to chase them, so the government gave up and just focused on us Negroes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I felt again the Negro children’s lips soft against mine, so like the feel of my own children’s good-night kisses. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that many whites were as frustrated as Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All her encounters with Negroes who had established themselves in businesses or trades in those small midwestem towns had been unpleasant. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fine-looking middle-aged Negro woman, dressed in a white uniform, stepped out onto the sidewalk a few doors away and stared at me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And those virtues preached but not practiced by the white world were merely another means of holding Negroes in subjection. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Y’art just an old man who can only find Negroes to laugh with him.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean to say that the Negro boy I depicted in Native Son is either a Communist or a Fascist. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Deed said, “It’s the way of the world, Sleepy. It’s against the law for a Negro to own any property out where the Log Cabin is so Mr. C. put it in my name.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

We Negroes want a chance to be free at last. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘The Negro race of its own accord climbs up on the cross on every Friday,’ said Doctor Copeland. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If this wasn’t a grand Negro spectacle, I didn’t know what was. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was afraid to ask him to help me to get books; his frantic desire to demonstrate a racial solidarity with the whites against Negroes might make him betray me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew, better than most Negroes, how many white people truly wanted to see American racial problems solved. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, those young, teenage Negroes got upset, and started milling around and yelling, upsetting the older Negroes in the crowd. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just how many Negroes does he know? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Negroes in the club swarm her like bees on honeycomb. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Negro youngsters would ask for his autograph. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the high school was off-limits to the city’s Negro children, who were still sent to Phenix High School, Mary Jackson’s alma mater. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My flesh prickled with shame, for I knew the Negroes rightly resented me for attracting such unfavorable attention. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Election time was nearing and a Negro Republican precinct captain asked me to help him round up votes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is why I sought out Malcolm X, whose ideas had reached me through the medium of Negro integrationists. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody, not just Negroes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s seems to be written right after JonJon is basically blotted out of the Negro Leagues. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

One gets the feeling that he is proud, now that he has come to full stature and has struck out with one blow against both segregation and the stifling control of Negro leaders. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most Negro businesses were funeral parlors; white undertakers refused to bother with dead black bodies. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro section of St. Louis in the mid-thirties had all the finesse of a gold-rush town. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What you didn’t know, Richard, was that Clara was a Negro,” Ophie said, a heavy sadness falling over her as the rest of the pieces of the story slid into place. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“She said they don’t like light-skinned Negroes in Africa.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Under the dim light in the tiny room without windows, I realized I was having my first pro-longed contact as a Negro with other Negroes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Try to anchor as many Negroes as possible in their own homes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that his more liberated views of the Negro were in such contradiction to those of his elders, his parents and uncles, that he no longer went home to visit them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the cherished question-begging epithets applied to the Negro race, and widely accepted as truth even by men of good will, simply prove untrue when one lives among them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I head now for the Virginia Colony in the company of my quondam charge, the Negro boy Octavian—in which country, he avoweth, he shall rise in arms against the vile practice of slavery. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Negro thrust his two sweet fingers between his lips and rolled over them with his tongue. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hampton responded with an offer letter and a scholarship covered by the United Negro College Fund. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Farther downstream, beyond the bluff, were traces of the old cotton landing where Finch Negroes loaded bales and produce, and unloaded blocks of ice, flour and sugar, farm equipment, and ladies’ things. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Though Negroes apparently live on beans and rice in this area, it is no handicap. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied him closely, since other Negroes were beginning to watch us. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davis pushed to bring the brightest lights of Negro academe to his campus. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The white part of the room got calmer the more serious it got, but a tongue storm struck the Negroes like wind among palm trees. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The place to begin untangling these contradictions is the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company—symbol of “Negro Progress.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a few weeks I must be this aging, bald Negro; I must walk through a land hostile to my color, hostile to my skin. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stepped through the door, the Negro woman sang out: “All we got left’s beans and rice, honey.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even known I’d been making a grand Negro spectacle out of myself, bawling over a word in the dictionary. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he passed across the grounds he saw a white boy and a Negro walking around each other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A bus driver on a route between Newport News and Hampton denied entry to Negro men in military uniform. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Virtually every review of the situation questioned how much desperately needed brainpower was being squandered by the intentional neglect of America’s Negro schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Lansing certainly had no Negro lawyers—or doctors either—in those days, to hold up an image I might have aspired to. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, all Negroes looked similar to white men but white men did not usually bother to fix the face of a Negro in their minds. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I did not try to sell any more of the papers that night; I walked home with them under my arm, feeling that some Negro would leap from a bush or fence and waylay me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of Negro leagues popping up for colored to play in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was only one fourth Negro, but that made her the same as full-blooded. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It demands great force and great cunning continually to assault the mighty and indifferent fortress of white supremacy, as Negroes in this country have done so long. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She had been concealed in a haycock, and had, at one point, spent a week hidden in a potato hole in a cabin which belonged to a family of free Negroes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were a handful of Negroes, from small towns in the area, but I would say that it was ninety-nine percent white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Garveyites had embraced a totally racialistic outlook which endowed them with a dignity that I had never seen before in Negroes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I sat and listened to him and his friends tell tales of southern Negro experience, noting them down in my mind, not daring to ask questions for fear they would become alarmed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed a chain gang of Negro convicts grading the road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The city was glutted with them, and they looked upon a Negro who might labor for even less pay with jealousy and suspicion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He was after all a Mason, an Elk, a naval dietician and the first Negro deacon in the Lutheran church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and notice a Negro woman who has a small child with her. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He would drive around the outskirts of Lansing, because Negroes weren’t allowed inside the city limits after dark. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it true you refuse to rent houses to Negroes if those houses are in other sections of the city?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We want no statements! Tell me, was Miss Dalton in a condition to say good-bye to you when you left her in that car with the drunken Negro?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But, Uncle Jack, I don’t especially want to run out and marry a Negro or something.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Most Negroes cannot risk assuming that the humanity of white people is more real to them than their color. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He refrained from asking questions, but explained that Mayor Morrison had a good reputation for fairness and the Negroes were hoping he would get elected governor. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I understand Negroes are much more broadminded about such things,” he said warmly. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whites tickled their funny bones with the incident for a long time, and the Negroes thought it proved the worth and majesty of my grandmother. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken Celia’s tales about the maquiladoras and El Patron’s stories about Durango and mixed them with episodes of El Latigo Negro. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Probably because they don’t think it’s important. It’s like they don’t want us to know we have heroes too. Negroes who were brave, and not scared.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Those who would continue to deny the Negro his constitutional rights will also charge us with disturbing the peace and tranquility of our Town. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The grotesque hypocrisy slapped me as it does all Negroes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black man is wholly a Negro, regardless of what he once may have been. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s normal to see a few white folks mixed in with the crowd at the Negro dance. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided it was time to go into that state so dreaded by Negroes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mississippi has long had a reputation of failing to pun-ish white men accused of criminal acts against Negroes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The freight workers on the platform were all Negroes, of course, but so were almost half the people around the station. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Despite its unyielding advocacy of Negro economic empowerment, Hampton Institute’s stance on integration had always been of the go- slow variety, wartime president Malcolm MacLean being a notable exception. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was really good and played in the Negro American League...or maybe it was the Negro Southern League? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“Such fire! I do admire the Negros ability to continue fighting even in the face of overwhelming odds.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Normally, white prisoners wouldn’t think of listening to Negro prisoners’ opinions on anything, but guards, even, would wander over close to hear Bimbi on any subject. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

No other Negro was there, and I dared not take a seat unless I saw some other Negro also seated. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the boys were Negroes and I was happy; at least I could talk, joke, laugh, sing, say what I pleased. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes caught phrases: “sentiment against killer still rising,” “public opinion demands death penalty,” “fear uprising in Negro sector,” and “city tense.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Governor’s palace is guarded by brutes — Negroes and Shawnee Indians—patrolling the grounds — frowning out at the people. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At forty-eight, Atticus was left with two small children and a Negro cook named Calpurnia. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But you really remembered it when you were the only Negro around. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I try not to have any negative thoughts about white people or fear how much worse it could get for Negroes. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that blacks did not have the same chances as whites, and I did not want to do something that was commendable only as a Negro accomplishment. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Governor Ross Barnett stands with his arms crossed, looking the tall Negro in the eye. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“What about the nice ones? Some whites made sacrifices for Negroes. Real sacrifices.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is after the curfew. A Negro will be detained by the watch,” he said. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Again, it didn’t cross the white men’s minds that a trick like that might be pulled on them by Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His very best friend was a Negro abstractionist, he said, who made magnificent smears of protest and defiance across the canvas, sometimes slashing the canvas to shreds with a knife. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. McDaniels called today and told me about your friend Liz. The one who turned out to be”—she looked around and lowered her voice—“a Negro.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after much begging and whining, Circe got a Negro blacksmith to solder a bit of gold w*re to the box. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negro Digest costs twenty-five cents, and Ollie Mae says there are twenty-five other things she could spend that money on, so we don’t get any magazines. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s any difference,” I said cau-tiously, not wanting to test the possibility of his wrath at having a Negro disagree with him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps this attitude, held in spite of what they know and have endured, helps to explain why Negroes, on the whole, and until lately, have allowed themselves to feel so little hatred. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The Negro scholars in front of me are also muttering, saying some not-so-nice things about me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At the time, most resorts in the Poconos barred Negroes and even Jews, maintaining policies every bit as inflexible as the legal segregation of the South. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Another car roared down the street, and the street was suddenly deserted, but the Negroes appeared again shortly. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I boarded the train I was aware that we Negroes were in one part of the train and that the whites were in another. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, grudgingly, she told me that Granny came of Irish, Scotch, and French stock in which Negro blood had somewhere and somehow been infused. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times I was a Negro orphan she found in a cornfield and adopted. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever “show” or “front” he affects, his hair lye-cooked to be “white- looking” fairly shouts to everyone who looks at his head, “I’m ashamed to be a Negro.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negroes smiled and waved and held up their buckets for me to see. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I have told the Negro that I would sleep by the Flap because he is ill and the Water will come in & wet him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Lesbian thought up her messenger service idea because some of her trade wanted the Negroes to come to their homes, at times carefully arranged by telephone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro dreads rejection, and I waited for them to offer the drink. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figure there must be a world of Negro poets I don’t even know yet. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, how is the American Negro now to form himself into a separate nation? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The voices of the younger of the Young Men burst into the night; and the laughter of damsels; a youth yelling, “There is the Negro boy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She thought of the Negroes she’d known as a child—well-fed and happy slaves, with no worries about finding employment. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

These Negroes got what white- longshoreman thievery left over. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would go through the area as a Negro and then, usually at night, remove the dyes with cleansing cream and tissues and pass through the same area as a white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of Negro soldiers and sailors, gawking and young like me, passed by. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rose and hurried toward a little Negro cafe in the next block. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouldered through a knot of people and jumped on the back of the Negro who held the knife. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The white racist has masterfully defrauded the Negro of this sense. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned away from him; I had heard that whites regarded Negroes as animals in sex matters and his words made me angry. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Negro girl came out of the house and joined the white-suited boys on the steps. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’d seen the desperate, crazily hopeful faces of the Negro men and women who went in and out without buying a thing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I had trouble there. They drove me off the job, the Negroes did.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that though I was well dressed for a Negro, my appearance looked shabby for a white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was convinced, and my response was to set myself the task of making Negroes know what Communists were. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling that would come on him was a black, terrible Negro feeling. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Among the twenty Negro Peace Corpsmen I talked with, a very impressive fellow to me was Larry Jackson, a Morgan State College graduate from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who had joined the Peace Corps in 1962. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me that nearly every white woman in her clientele would specify “a black one”; sometimes they would say “a real one,” meaning black, no brown Negroes, no red Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did stop at a Negro diner last night, but they wouldn’t serve me. I think the guitar threw' them off.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I found something in here yesterday that I think will be both useful and enjoyable. I’m especially pleased to say this opportunity comes from the newspaper that represents Negro people all over the state.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was walking down St. Nicholas Avenue; I saw all of these Negroes hollering and tunning north from 125th Street. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X slashed at the government’s reluctance to take positive steps in the Negro’s behalf. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered about the Negro who had left this trace of his passing. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro therefore prized education as the only doorway into the world of knowledge and dignity to which he aspired. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did I mean that I had become less of what I was, less a Negro, or that I was less a being apart; less an exile from down home, the South? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both white men and women, it seemed, would get almost mesmerized by Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t aptly remember seeing Dr. Lincoln’s name, nor had I ever heard of a Negro’s going to him as a patient. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Negro hath this Day as we marched provided us with much merry Music upon the Way. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A young Negro contralto was a rarity in German concert life, and many people came out of curiosity. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

More than once I walked into drugstores where a Negro can buy cigarettes or anything else except soda fountain service. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Day by day, reporters and photographers poured into town to cover the Negro bus protest in the heart of Dixie. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

White women in league with Negroes was their main obsession. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it played in Mason, I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Predominantly, it was young Negroes, defiant of whatever might be the consequences, sick and tired of the black man’s neck under the white man’s heel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my fallen weapon and pick my first target, a Negro girl wearing clothing that looks eerily like mine, and leap, sickle swinging to take the thing down. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“She was better than every other Negro on the court.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In consequence, Negroes are still impoverished aliens in an affluent society. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m told that there are in America today between two and five million “white Negroes,” who are “passing” in white society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that local’s gone fifteen minutes ago,” a Negro told me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later Sheriff Strider pushed through the crowd, walked back to the Negro benches and handed her an envelope. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I see what you mean. Let me try again. A Negro is someone whose ancestors originally came from Africa and who has dark skin.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that this grocer refuses to hire Negro workers? Don’t spend money where your people aren’t respected and can’t earn a living,” she says. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

See, I need her to explain to her husband why a hundred-and-sixty-five-pound Negro woman has keys to his house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When the yearning to leave would become strong in me, I could not keep out of my mind the image of a storehouse at a near-by Negro college that held huge cans of preserved fruits. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes might not be welcome at the white theater, but I didn’t think there was a rule against whites going to the Negro theater. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anybody but a Negro boy were charged with murder, the State’s Attorney would not have rushed this case to trial and demanded the death penalty. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In this decade of change, the Negro stood up and confronted his oppres-sor. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The coroner walked close to Jan’s chair and leaned the upper part of his body forward and asked in a loud voice, “Do you believe in social equality for Negroes?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe the governor would rather close the schools than have you go with a couple of Negroes,” Daddy said to Judy. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the very end, Malcolm sought to refashion the broken strands between the American Negroes and African culture. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them talk for an hour and by the time they finish, Mrs. Olsen has promised to accept Negroes to apply for work at her bakery. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The subtlety of it escaped the whites on the bus, but it in no way escaped the driver or the Negroes at the back. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the group of Negroes and his eyes narrowed. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Reports were current that several Negro men were beaten in various North and West Side neighborhoods. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

To us, she said, “They took all our Negroes.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

You will often hear today a lot of the Negro leaders complaining that what thrust the Muslims into international prominence was the white man’s press, radio, television, and other media. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew that the white man is rare who will ever consider that a Negro can outsmart him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all truth, the Negro masses have never been flattered by the presence of these leaders, many of whom—justifiably or not—they suspected were Judas goats. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This man began to tell Negroes how they came from a distant land, in the seeds of their forefathers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the Negro has lacked unity of purpose else-where, he has in Montgomery rallied to the leadership of King. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the city had a Negro League team.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“So wouldn’t it make more sense to work with the Negroes?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hayti was also abuzz over Negro History Week, due to commence on the following Sunday. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He frightened white television audiences, demolished his Negro opponents, but elicited a remarkable response from Negro audiences. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd was the same, for the most part factory workers and Negroes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Several Negro girls were employed as maids in the hotel, some of whom I knew. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked if it is fair to take tax money from the Negro and then use it to support an organization set up for the avowed purpose of suppressing him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he was the only Negro doctor for two hundred miles, Tony’s father delivered babies, gave tonics and cough medicine for head colds, and patched up scratches, cuts, and burns. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

No matter where you are, the nearest Negro cafe is always far away, it seems. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the trip I had not thought of myself as a Negro; I had been mulling over the problems of the young left-wing writers I knew. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro had come back and was starting to collect the empty plates of people who hadn't dished out any beans yet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I know that you can be black and get all up with white folks, feeling like you’re fitting in, trying to ignore the fact that when you step outside, you’re still a Negro. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family’s activities were regular fodder for the social column in the Farmville section of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, the leading Negro newspaper in the southeastern United States. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

So now she was living about an hour and a half south of Baltimore, at Crownsville State Hospital—formerly known as the Hospital for the Negro Insane. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s nice to know that even Summerland's impending doom doesn't make the sheriff change his mind about giving Negroes a fighting chance. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Similarly, just let some mayor or some city council somewhere boast of having “no Negro problem.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes danced like they never have anywhere before or since. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly Negro lady sitting on the opposite side of the car gave them a gap-toothed smile. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was as if electrical current shot through the ranks of bourgeois Negroes—the very so-called “middle-class” and “upper- class ’ ’ who had earlier been deploring the March on Washington talk by grass-roots Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “Uncle Toms” think that every Negro should bury his head in the sand and pretend he is not there. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They called me “the angriest Negro in America.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not frequently, but often enough, travelers pulled off the main road to buy tobacco or soft drinks in the only Negro store in Stamps. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the Negroes had tried to ignore her, the whites had shown great interest in her. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What the Negro has discovered, and on an international level, is that power to intimidate which he has always had privately but hitherto could manipulate only privately—for private ends often, for limited ends always. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I knew its bar was famous as a Negro celebrity hang-out. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these Harlem Negroes quietly laid a bill on the bar. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a whole crop of downtown white guys who will come uptown for the most beautiful Negro women, then head back home to their wives. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt certain that the Negro could never solve his problem until the deeper problem of American civilization had been faced and solved. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

White folks were funny; Mr. Bates might not wish to see a Negro the first thing in the morning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the corner of the Lucys’ block, a pharmacist had purchased a lot with plans to open the city’s first Negro pharmacy. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I asked Aunt Fannie Mae, “Why do Negro people die that way?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Of employed Negroes, seventy-five percent hold menial jobs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now, who on earth would think that he, a black timid Negro boy, would murder and burn a rich white girl and would sit and wait for his breakfast like this? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell him that he and all of the other moderate Negroes who are getting somewhere need to always remember that it was us extremists who made it possible. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among Negro institutions, I had then been to Adanta University and Clark College down in Atlanta, to Howard University in Washington, D.C., and to a number of others with small student bodies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A true Negro revolt might entail, for instance, fighting for separate black states within this country—which several groups and individuals have advocated, long before Elijah Muhammad came along. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro in the passenger side leans out and stares. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I had never thought much about just being a Negro, or what that meant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Matt was more than a little disappointed when Tam Lin brought out a sleepy gray horse instead of the spirited steed El Latigo Negro rode. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week before the Civil Rights bill became law, Newsweek magazine published a nationwide poll titled “The Negro Revolution—U.S. Attitudes Now.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were some two hundred Negroes of the Ethiopian Regiment present, clustered around three flames that scarce would have warmed ten. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

That order called for the admission of two clearly qualified young Alabama residents who happened to have been born Negro. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we drove more deeply into Mississippi, I noted that the Negro comforted and sought comfort from his own. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning of the March, any rickety carloads of angry, dusty, sweating small-town Negroes would have gotten lost among the chartered jet planes, railroad cars, and air-conditioned buses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know the world contained as many Negroes as I saw thronging downtown Roxbury at night, especially on Saturdays. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing to be gained from their acquaintance, and I fear for the Negro should these men ever come to any real power. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Just as I started back there, an innocent Negro walked into the shop. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you ask a Negro where he’s been, he’ll tell you where he’s going.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sound like that red-headed Negro named X. Why don’t you join him and call yourself Guitar X?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat about halfway up, with Mr. Smith and a few other Negroes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their thinking was already reflecting a high degree of nascent Negro nationalism. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The familiar theme sounded by Helms’s showcase Negro—that blacks simply had to maintain their property better—denied the reality that most blacks did not own their homes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro was just trying to see how much we would take. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Federal Negro Theater, for which I was doing publicity, had run a series of ordinary plays, all of which had been revamped to “Negro style,” with jungle scenes, spirituals, and all. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My conditioning as a Negro, and the immense sexual implications with which the racists in our culture bombard us, cut me off, even in my most intimate self, from any connection with my wife. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Y’all look like you need some mercy yourselves. You are obviously nobody’s mistress—I figure an unhappy indenture. The two little Negroes are runaways for sure.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around for my mother, but there was no one else on the raft Just this huge Negro, myself, and a big black and gray cat that was licking his haunches. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the only Negro in the cafe. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course you couldn't speak that way in the South, the white folks wouldn't like it, and the Negroes would say that you were "putting on." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, by then, I didn’t really have much feeling about being a Negro, because I was trying so hard, in every way I could, to be white. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says Uncle Tom Negroes had tipped off the devil white man to his teachings, and he was charged by this devil white man with draft-dodging, although he was too old for military service. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro employees began attending centerwide events such as the annual Christmas party; one season, Eunice Smith volunteered as a Santas helper. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Well, let enough Negroes follow him to Finland! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two Negroes glanced warily at each other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Both Negroes and whites have gained this certainty from the experiment—because I was a Negro for six weeks, I remained partly Negro or perhaps essentially Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the Negroes was very tall and his tie and socks were brilliant green. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Later, I remember, we came to the textbook section on Negro history. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote back, “I think such a mixture would lose for the Negro far more than we should gain for the woman.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A small, light brown-skinned man knocked from door to door at the apartments of the poverty-stricken Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The furniture store that my brother Wilfred managed was right in the black ghetto of Detroit; I’d better not name the store, if I’m going to tell the way they robbed Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the Negro recognizes this, in a negative way. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The impoverished Negroes respected Malcolm in the way that wayward children respect the grandfather image. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its characteristic design permitted the white man to feel “noble” about throwing crumbs to the black man, instead of feeling guilty about the local community’s system of cruelly exploiting Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all the struggle and all the achievements, we must face the fact, however, that the Negro still lives in the basement of the Great Society. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They distrust any Negro prominent enough to be photographed by a white photographer. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I now detected a change in the attitudes of the whites I met; their privations were making them regard Negroes with new eyes, and for the first time I was invited to their homes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites’ concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

How much more capable he would be with Negroes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve even heard Negroes say that maybe Hitler and Mussolini are all right; that maybe Stalin is all right. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me, then, that if the Negro solved his problem, he would be solving infinitely more than his problem alone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stockily built young Negro, who introduced himself as Bill Williams, asked if I minded having him sit beside me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, in the case of the Negro, the American republic has never become sufficiently mature to do. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The machine contested Du Bois at every turn, ensuring that the NAACP’s magazine, Crisis, was banned from Negro college campuses and pulling strings in an attempt to destroy Du Bois and his movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

About my second day there in Roxbury, Ella told me that she didn’t want me to start hunting for a job right away, like most newcomer Negroes did. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The case of Howard Fuller can be reproduced again and again in every southern state or wherever Negroes have suffered the injustices of racial discrimination and attempted to demand their rights. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now he mopped the floor with sleepy strokes and hummed his lonesome Negro music steadily. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Negro moved his hands on the counterpane. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As Equiano explained, the island of Montserrat “requires 20,000 new Negroes annually, to fill up the vacant places of the dead.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The beautiful buildings sat on a moderate hill in the white residential district, some sixty blocks from the Negro neighborhood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a luncheon meeting of the Civic Daughters to plan for the Thanksgiving fundraiser for the National Negro Business League. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson waxed poetic in statements about the Negro’s epic hundred-year journey up from slavery. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Too many of the more militant leaders are preaching Negro superiority. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been here for only five minutes when the manager of the store comes out and says, “You Negroes stop harassing my customers.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the eeriest way possible, I suddenly had a glimpse of what white people must go through at a dinner table when they are trying to prove that Negroes are not subhuman. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The country had been in the throes of the Depression for two years before the Negroes in Stamps knew it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure my Terrance would feel comfortable about me being here if he knew I was associating with Negroes.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negroes crouch in the ready position, while the drovers don’t look like they know what to do with themselves. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then there’d be quiet behind her closed door and I’d picture her slowly thumbing through the Los Angeles Sentinel, our Negro newspaper. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was decrepit, but the Negro leaders assured me it was safe and that they would keep a close watch on me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For three days the Negro has refused all nourishment. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes that paper ran articles about Negroes who were responsible for new inventions or discoveries. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Occasionally a Negro Communist—defying the code that enjoined him to shun suspect elements—came to my home and informed me of the current charges that Communists were bringing against one another. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Times have sure changed; if it happened today, those same black girls would go after those Negro men—and the white women, too. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro masses will name leaders and will give them power and responsibility. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A redheaded white man in a sports shirt stood up, faced the rear and called out to the Negro, “Didn’t you hear the driver? Move out, man.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now one of them spoke to the Negro with the Virginia license and the northern accent. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had broad shoulders and a narrow waist and short-cropped hair like most of the Negro boys wore, but it was his face I couldn’t help staring at. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found Atlanta a thriving intellectual center for the Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Southern conservatives vowed to reverse Reconstruction and sought the “abolition of the Freedmen’s Bureau and all political instrumentalities designed to secure Negro supremacy.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He said that he would consider forming some united front with certain selected Negro leaders. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This decision made a path for Negro children to be taught alongside white children in the same classrooms. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

On its cover was a drawing of an anthropophagous Negro; above the drawing was printed The Black Plague. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The drunk tried to bring him up to the counter for a drink, but the Negro left as soon as he realized why he had been led inside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“What’s to prevent any Negro from going where he pleases in this country and finding what he wants?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I wondered why, and then realized that I had grown so accustomed to being a Negro, to being shown contempt, that I could not rid myself of the cautions. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white racist is bewildered and angered by such an attitude, because the dignity of the Negro’s course of action emphasizes the indignity of his own. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially after the nightclubs downtown closed, the taxis and black limousines would be driving uptown, bringing those white people who never could get enough of Negro soul. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a Negro Youth, a Tall, Gawky Thing, and he played upon a Fiddle built, I would hazard, from two Gourds & a discarded Peg-Leg, but, Shun, he played like a Seraph — a Disconsolate Seraph. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Dalton, you and your husband have given large sums of money to Negro educational institutions, haven’t you?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large, pleasant-faced Negro walked in and sat at the counter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was just another black ignorant Negro to them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old civil rights organization—so powerful in 1964 that Jesse Helms had attacked it as “the thought-control center for the Negro population of America”—had been steadily losing influence, members, and money. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I went inside to the Negro rest room, splashed cold water on my face and brushed my teeth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Go to Durham and see the industrious Negro at his best. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro boys and girls who are facing mobs today come out of a long line of improbable aristocrats—the only genuine aristocrats this country has produced. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

We nodded our appreciation and the young Negro said gently: “It happens to us all the time.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never have even American Negro audiences accepted me as I have been accepted time and again by the less inhibited, more down-to-earth Africans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not go with him when later that day he addressed a Negro audience in Hariem and an incident occurred which Helen Dudar reported in the New York Post. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I misjudged you. You have our number. In fact, you must be practically a Negro yourself. Was it by immersion or injection?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the planks were unloaded, Henry turned his back on his son and the Negro and climbed the porch steps. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One morning I arrived, early at work and went into the bank lobby where the Negro porter was mopping. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children’s school, the only one in the area for Negroes, terminated with the sixth grade. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Though one hundred Negroes were killed in the process of putting down this revolt, Nat Turner could not be found. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shall in no wise exercise ourselves for the loss of a few Negroes, which action would be on all heads impracticable & fruitless. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Negro leapt away with a yelp and rolled his eyes at me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t read the Negro press for the big pictures of smug black “firsts.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a huge, very old Negro sitting on die raft near me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even the long-stalled plan to equalize Negro teachers’ salaries with those of their white counterparts could beat this opportunity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There was a Negro chauffeur too, who rolled his eyes and scratched his head, and I wondered how on earth an idiot like that could be trusted with her beautiful cars. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he could repress the Negro violently and claim it was only self-defense. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the white men in the hall were married to Negro women, and many of the Negro men were married to white women. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, my bitterness was less against die white press than it was against those Negro “leaders” who kept attacking us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others said they were whites terrified by the wave of southern Negroes flooding the towns, searching for work and places to live. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess die big Negro saw the look on my face. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Appeals to racial unity to prevent “Negro domination” stirred up such powerful emotions throughout the South that Klan activity focused at least as much on race as on party politics. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A white man stood in front of a Negro recreation parlor near the college entrance gates and waved to me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bent over to speak to the young Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hustler, out there in the ghetto jungles, has less respect for the white power structure than any other Negro in North America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read the menu carefully, forgetting that Negroes do not do such things. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even a Negro, entrapped by ignorance and exploitation—as I had been—could, if he had the will and the love for it, learn to read and understand the world in which he lived. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She answered rudely and glared at me with such loathing I knew I was receiving what the Negroes call “the hate stare.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro kept grinning and chuckling in a silly way. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

These intellectual and professional Negroes couldn’t use what they knew for the benefit of their own black kind simply because even among themselves they were disunited. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A Negro girl in my very house,” she said again after the first refrain. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Myrna is preparing to bray at some unfortunate Negro. In public.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crooks had retired into the terrible protective dignity of the Negro. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Now he's lecturing us on the conditioned reflexes of the Negro people," Tobitt said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a murderer, a Negro murderer, a black murderer. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the summer, a visitor to Durham would note: “The old line Negro leadership, seeing the initiative slip away from itself is rushing to Fuller’s bandwagon.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rumor that die tunnel spanning die river would use Negro workers became an announcement Planned, abandoned and replanned for years, this project had finally begun in 1937. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know it was a Negro thing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Erlone, didn’t you give that Negro material relating to the Communist Party?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But why a Negro? Is there a substantive scarcity of Nigerians there?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

These Negroes walked along the sidewalks looking haughty and dignified, on their way to work, to shop, to visit, to church. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could calculate my chances for life in the South as a Negro fairly clearly now. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

What that March on Washington did do was lull Negroes for a while. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what else is new for the Negro? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also told me things that Negroes had told him— that the lighter the skin the more trustworthy the Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the street he lived on, recorded as Mains Avenue, but called Not Doctor Street by the Negroes in memory of his grandfather, who was the first colored man of consequence in that city. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I searched for an opening, a way to enter the world of the Negro, some contact perhaps. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amongst the glad faces and the looks of triumph, one aging Negro in the crew could be perceived crying; and, wondering at his tears, I inquired of him why he wept. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Malcolm X caused many young Negroes to take a new vision of themselves,” said Bayard Rustin, a main figure in organizing the March on Washington in 1963. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, sir, that body’d been in the water a good two weeks, long before that Negro boy got himself kidnapped. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them “better,” these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered how she would feel if she learned that the Negro before whom she had behaved in such an un-ladylike manner was habitually a white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in racial issues, wrote Du Bois, “Mr. Washington’s programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pretended he was El Latigo Negro scouting out an enemy fortress. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both Sip and I were silent, knowing we both had conveyed rumors to our fellows in the Negro work-parties. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A family of Negroes moved into the end house on one of the most dismal streets, and this caused so much indignation that the house was burned and the black man beaten by his neighbors. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it occurred to me that I made a strange and too obvious picture there—a large Negro, standing in front of a church, absorbed in a pamphlet on racial justice. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Rudolph was winning a four-round decision over a Florida Negro named ‘ ‘Chip’ ’ Johnson, Cassius stood at the rear of the auditorium watching calmly, dressed in a black tuxedo. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Montgomery, the city I had detested, was beautiful that day; at least it was until I walked into a Negro section where I had not been before. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d hardly ever talked to a Negro man before, and I was scared. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

No Negro place of business had ever impressed me so much. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dalton told again why he had hired Bigger and pointed him out as “the Negro boy who came to my home to work.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Search of the Negro’s home, 3721 Indiana Avenue, in the heart of the South Side, failed to reveal his whereabouts. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Aw, Mr. Max, she wanted me to tell her how Negroes live. She got into the front seat of the car where I was. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Multiply Bigger Thomas twelve million times, allowing for environmental and temperamental variations, and for those Negroes who are completely under the influence of the church, and you have the psychology of the Negro people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come closer and see a Negro man, about my age, standing in the middle of the white men, with Army men behind him. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The FEPC, however feeble it might have been in reality during the war, had nonetheless become a powerful symbol of employment progress for Negroes and other ethnic minorities. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I heard the old things: the Negro is this or that or the other. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m Negro and some of the others are white. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But these officials understandably feel that the Negro in America is so confused and divided that he doesn’t himself know what his cause is. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I made myself American-pretty so that the five or six Chinese boys in the class fell in love with me, everyone else—the Caucasian, Negro, and Japanese boys—would too. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, I told the story at the Y, and discovered that Negroes have the right to sit in Jackson Square. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sought refuge in a Negro drugstore and drank milk shakes as an excuse to stay there. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes who never had seen anything like this were coming out of stores and restaurants and bars and enlarging the crowd following us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not to tell you only of suffering that I stand here today, even though there are frequent lynchings and floggings of Negroes throughout the country. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They hated Negroes because they didn’t have their share of the money. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Half the Negroes from those programs end up a shambler their first month on the job. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude,” he wrote to William Tudor, and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“She look more like my mother’s people,” Ma Charles said, which was her way of saying “plain old Negro.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He was so guilty, it was clear to me, of hating Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He adopted the Southern editorial policy, “Love American motherhood and hate sin” and never mention Negroes except in a manner harmonious to the Southern Way of Life. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It concluded: We are, therefore, asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“A Y. C. L.-er and two Negro women. Oh, by the way, Mary. We need money for bail badly.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Today, all these same immigrants’ descendants are running as hard as they can to escape the descendants of the Negroes who helped to unload the immigrant ships. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had always told him that rich white people liked Negroes better than they did poor whites. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And she was truly a Georgia Negro woman when she got into the kitchen with her pots and pans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’ll see the conk worn by many, many so-called “upper- class” Negroes, and, as much as I hate to say it about them, on all too many Negro entertainers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, controlling my temper, careful not to do or say anything that would jeopardize the Negroes’ position in the area. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far from the main street, in one of the Negro sections of the town, Doctor Benedict Mady Copeland sat in his dark kitchen alone. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got to be a registered voter to be called into a jury pool, and Negroes don’t like to vote in the Delta, so none of them ever bother to register.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln, he had de whole United States tuh rule so he freed de Negroes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

One of them, ‘A Negro Love Song’, from a collection of 1898, is early notated evidence of the melodic style of what came to be known as the Blues. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He repeatedly cautioned me to beware of Negro affirmations of good will toward the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A person unaware of all the factors that make up op-pression might have expected sympathy or even support from the Negro newcomers for the dislodged Japanese. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have seen Negro children who really cannot learn, particularly those who in their gelatin plate of babyness have been told they were inferior. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At Sally’s party...the things you said...I did like Liz, before I knew. And while I don’t want to go to school with nig...Negroes, I don’t want anyone to get hurt.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw it not as a white man and not as a Negro, but as a human parent. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three Negroes were walking slowly ahead of him, talking among themselves. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You realize that our Negro population is backward, don’t you? You will concede that? You realize the full implications of the word ‘backward,’ don’t you?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Honestly, where else do Negro girls get to truly learn their place: serving the fine whitefolks of the world and keeping them safe? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Well-to-do Negroes lived in a world that was almost as alien to me as the world inhabited by whites. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if your friend was white, she should stay white, and not suddenly turn out to be a Negro. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a Negro, a mere boy, a cricket with only youth and greenness to recommend me, demanding to be heard by gentlemen and ladies of the first quality. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Unlike other leaders, I’ve practiced the flexibility to put myself into contact with every kind of Negro in the country.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now that the pastor’s said it, maybe Obama thinks so too, and if Obama thinks so then he isn’t the Magic Negro and only a Magic Negro can win an American election. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Finally the Negro salad girl came to me and handed me her purse and hat. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or you can’t tell the average white man that the Negro man’s prime desire isn’t to have a white woman—another lie! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was foolish to think some things were beyond happening, even being attracted to Negroes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half his talk was about Jews and Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times their speeches, glowing with rebellion, were downright offensive to lowly, hungry Negroes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reginald shared tens of thousands of Negroes’ feelings that the living end of the big bands was Lionel Hampton’s. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Negro Griffin, I walked up the steep hill to the bus station in Montgomery to get the schedule for buses to Tuskegee. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the situation which permitted Negro combustion to slowly build up to the revolution-point, without the white man realizing it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if folks could overlook the rumors of a white woman birthing a Negro, well, they could forgive just about anything, couldn't they? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was in his role as a preacher that my father had most contact with the Negroes of Lansing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that the peace of a day’s ending was an assurance that the covenant God made with children, Negroes and the crippled was still in effect. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once she really went for Negroes, the more the better, Sammy said, and wouldn’t have a white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By about the time of Christ the central Amazon had at least some large, settled villages—Neves, Petersen, and Bartone excavated one on a high bank about thirty miles up the Rio Negro. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But he told me he was going to Money with a couple of men and that they were going to teach a Northern Negro a lesson. Emmett disappeared the next night.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly she was talking about her family history, saying something about “the Hospital for Crazy Negroes” and her mother’s great-grandfather having been a slave owner. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I read a Negro newspaper I never caught the faintest echo of my preoccupation in its pages. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only people I had ever heard denounced in the South were Negroes, and this man was not a Negro. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jay was a boy, and the world was different for men and boys, especially Negro men and boys, and he had to learn how to live in it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was so dark they put ‘Negro,’ because black was the only color they saw in her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Dancing only with Negroes, she seemed to go nearly into a trance. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. W. D. Fard taught that the Negroes in America were directly descended from Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro came to the white man for a roof or for five dollars or for a letter to the judge; the white man came to the Negro for love. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

And, as I say, above all Negroes, the black prisoner. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Gran’s funeral, Pastor Robertson had said President Kennedy had helped pass laws to make life better for many people, including Negroes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Members of a ladies’ club called Les Femmes wrote a letter to the bus company complaining of the derogatory treatment their drivers routinely directed at Negro women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The hypocritical white man will talk about the Negro’s “low morals.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large, pleasant Negro woman smiled at me across the aisle. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Negroes want to be people. Are you against that?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam wasn't allowed to attend classes because he was a Negro, but they let him fix the building. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Her father had taught her to disrespect Negroes, but her mother had taught her to respect her elders. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know, where some giant industry had hired ten showpiece Negroes; some restaurant chain had begun making more money by serving Negroes; some Southern university had enrolled a black freshman without bayonets—like that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Confine yourself to answering the questions, please, Mr. Erlone. We want none of your Communist explanations here. Tell me, did you eatvAxh that Negro?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller man’s in the middle of a long monologue about Negro improvement. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

What happens when the Negro is no longer a part of this economy? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The front two or three press rows were filled with the black reporters and cameramen representing the Negro press, or those who had been hired by the white man’s newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Preacher Snyder finally releases my arm as we pull up alongside the tables full of Negro boys and girls. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I was amazed, when I asked passers-by, to learn that there were practically no hotels for Negroes in Harlem. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no “nobler in the mind” for Negroes because the world didn’t think we had minds, and they let us know it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro touched his hatbrim and walked back to his mother’s house. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Had the Negro lived upon a common territory, separate from the bulk of the white population, this program of oppression might not have assumed such a brutal and violent form. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her father, an educated man, was the publisher of a small Negro newspaper. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The urban environment of Chicago, affording a more stimulating life, made the Negro Bigger Thomases react more violently than even in the South. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rich amused themselves by dancing the Charleston and the new rhythms of jazz, the fox-trot, and some Negro cumbias that were marvelously indecent. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My turn finally came and I was questioned by a middle-class Negro woman who asked me for a short history of my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His achievements are carefully excluded or, when they demand attention, they are handled with the greatest care to avoid the impression that anything good the individual Negro does is typical of his race. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All of First Congregational is wondering what on earth a minister’s son is doing out in a dory with a Negro girl.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I concluded that, as in everything else, the atmosphere of a place is entirely different for Negro and white. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was always the possibility that mail with a Northern postmark might contain Abolitionist propaganda, and when it was addressed to a free Negro, it was almost certain to contain objectionable material. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had had several messes with the police, mostly in gambling raids, and regarded them as the natural hazards of Negro life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Do Negroes often come here as guests, to spend a few days, Father?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt—but only temporarily—that perhaps the whites were right, that Negroes were children and would never grow up. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the way most houses on the South Side were, ornate, old, stinking; homes once of rich white people, now inhabited by Negroes or standing dark and empty with yawning black windows. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“While integration waits to be born, the ‘separate but equal’ education of the Negroes marks time,” wrote journalist James Rorty in Commentary Magazine. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some wanted to know where they could find girls, wanted us to get Negro girls for them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s true that being a Negro has its drawbacks, but I couldn't tell you what they are—that's how happy I am being taught my place here at Miss Preston's. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She followed him into a dark parlor to which clung the musky sweet smell of clean Negro, snuff, and Hearts of Love hairdressing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were beggars, both Negro and white, who held out caps or crusty hands. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The “other Negro woman” arrested was Rosa Parks. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

That wasn't the first time the white men with their long beards and narrowed eyes had come to Rose Hill, taking every Negro boy and girl away to be educated. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And of course, The Mike Douglas Show five days a week because Mike Douglas always had Negro performers on his variety show. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the Negroes had to do generally, and those at the revival especially, was bear up under this life of toil and cares, because a blessed home awaited them in the far-off bye and bye. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been inside of three-fourths of the Negroes’ homes on the South Side ...” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t you even let other Negroes know about it? I mean to give us hope?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negroes cannot use the same pharmacy or buy postage stamps at the same window as me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That no one—not even other Negroes—understood what it was we did? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A group of nicely dressed Negro women solicited contributions for missionary activities. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinary vanishings—Polish girls, stockyard boys, Italian laborers, Negro women—merited little effort. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Bigger Thomases were the only Negroes I know of who consistently violated the Jim Crow laws of the South and got away with it, at least for a sweet brief spell. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A white man and a Negro,” I laughed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks—the polite term at that time was Negro—and whites lived side by side in South Philadelphia, but as Marian grew older, she learned that prejudice and discrimination often kept the races apart. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

One of the Negro girls had her mother coil braids over her ears Shanghai-style like mine; we were Shanghai twins except that she was covered with black like my paintings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I pulled myself off the cot and wandered outside, I found the tallest Negro man I’d ever seen working on the truck, bent over the motor, tools scattered around his feet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They know that I am describing what has been the true pattern of “communications” between the “local whites of good-will” and the local Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the Negroes had been bitten and had been ill; the boss had been asked to leash the dog, but he had refused. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Reese, who lived on the first floor in my building and managed a Negro team, thought I might be able to play baseball, in a few years if the Negro Leagues were still around. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was full of Malcolm X, Saigon, the Beatles, tennis at Wimbledon, and a motel in Jackson, Mississippi, that closed down rather than accept Negro guests, but nothing about me and Rosaleen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve taken in twenty of the Negroes who lived on his land and a nasty old overseer named Duncan. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But now they would be conspicuous; they also feared the recently aroused anger of Harlem Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time a rumor got going about a group of Negroes coming to worship with us on Sunday morning, the deacons stood locked-arms across the church steps to turn them away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish Negroes, two bucks and a girl. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A Negro boy jumped from the running-board and handed her three quarts of milk. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes, dipped the quill, and wrote out my true name: Isabel Gardener, being a Free Negro, has the Commandant’s Permission to pass from this Garrison to whatever place she may think proper. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another erected a fence to hide the Negroes from sight. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a scholarship to the state college for Negroes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A Negro is someone who is born with dark skin.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

You can say for many Southern white people that, individually, they have been patemalistically helpful to many individual Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably a third of the sideline booths were filled with white people, mostly just watching the Negroes dance; but some of them danced together, and, as in Boston, a few white women were with Negroes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both the Negro and the white convicts had sat bolt upright. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It became necessary for the Negro community to expand its physical limits. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night I decided to go to a Negro movie house. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For generations, the so-called “educated” Negroes have “led” their black brothers by echoing the white man’s thinking—which naturally has been to the exploitive white man’s advantage. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crime for a Negro was only when he harmed whites, took white lives, or injured white property. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But the Negroes want their schools reopened too.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I did live on the Hill, my instincts were never—and still aren’t—to feel myself better than any other Negro. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nearby Negro man caught her arm, steadying her, and she thanked him laughingly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I felt strangely sad to leave the world of the Negro after having shared it so long—almost as though I were fleeing my share of his pain and heartache. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carter G. Woodson’s Negro History opened my eyes about black empires before the black slave was brought to the United States, and the early Negro struggles for freedom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being a Negro, I could not help it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise was acutely conscious that the Negroes were watching her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And after a while when he had to do something, he began to shout at anyone, any Negro who looked up at him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he spotted the Negroes, he lifted a bullhorn to his mouth and started talking in their direction. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He stated that a woefully undermanned police force together with recurring waves of Negro crime made such a procedure necessary. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old “Colonial” railroaders had told me about Washington having a lot of “middle-class” Negroes with Howard University degrees, who were working as laborers, janitors, porters, guards, taxi-drivers, and the like. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His original draft of the Declaration contained a “vehement philippic against Negro slavery.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three wooden benches were pushed up near the back, and when the room looked packed enough to explode, a deputy led a group of Negroes in and directed them to sit there. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then, conniving, sweet-toned, “There’s plenty white women would like to have a good buck Negro.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sterling handed me this morning’s issue of The Louisiana Weekly, a Negro newspaper. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up one more passenger between Jackson and Montgomery, a young Negro student with a sharp face and the look and feel of impatient fierceness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negroes were—” Incidental to the issue in this war. . . to your own private war. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We had witnessed a pitiful one-man attempt to make up for some of the abuses the man had seen practiced against the Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never had seen any Christian-believing Negroes conduct themselves like the Muslims, the individuals and the families alike. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We Communists don’t dramatize Negro nationalism,” he said in a voice that laughed, accused, and drawled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the jury came back in, the next witness was Chester Miller, a Negro undertaker who had helped with Emmett’s body when it was pulled out of the Tallahatchie. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But those Negroes—nobody in the world could have choreographed the way they did whatever they felt—just grabbing partners, even the white chicks who came to the Negro dances. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Negro man who made even live thousand in die white man’s world was unusual. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had so loved being around the white man that in prison I really disliked how Negro convicts stuck together so much. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the time the Negro was banging down the tureens and then the dinted silver and the thick, white china plates, he gawped at us with big, rolling eyes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

First an invocation by a Negro preacher; then a woman spoke of what was happening to the children. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a few Negro porters on the train, but I was surprised by how many I saw around the Greenwood station. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Just as Beyoncé sings in her song "Formation," "I like my Negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils," I would like my Persian nose with Barbra Streisand nostrils. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The only way I could see to bridge the gap between us was to become a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they had some at the George Bruce Branch, but I didn’t want to identify myself as a Negro by asking. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But these drovers are here now, and without them fighting alongside us Negroes, I don't see how any of us are going to survive the night. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Boston at this time had two Negro detectives. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the sort of kindly condescension which I try to clarify today, to these integration-hungry Negroes, about their “liberal” white friends, these so-called “good white people”—most of them anyway. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some mornings I found leaflets on my steps telling of China, Russia, and Germany; on some days I witnessed as many as five thousand jobless Negroes, led by Communists, surging through the streets. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of stable, well-paid job that gave Negro men—even those with white-collar credentials—a chance to pull their families solidly into the middle class. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Among Negroes I was treated with the most incredible courtesies, even by strangers. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Segregationists don’t take kindly to Negroes who try to pass as white. Liz and her family are in real danger. The farther away you stay from them, the better.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few thousands of Negroes, relatively a very tiny number, are taking any part in “integration. ’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing the Catholic stand on racism, I wondered if this shop might cash a Negro’s check. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Contemporary plays dealing realistically with Negro life were spurned as being controversial. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pleaded with everyone to come together and to volunteer to clean up the neighborhoods and help restore the Negro businesses that had been destroyed. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But whenever a Negro approached the front to get off, the driver’s silence fairly roared. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squad cars cruise the Black Belt and grab the first Negro boy who seems to be unattached and homeless. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They have destroyed the cliche that whenever Negroes move into an area the property values go down. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negro soldiers from Fort Monroe and Langley Field and the naval training school on the campus of Hampton Institute rested their cares in the company of some of the community’s most eligible bachelorettes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Just recently, I was standing in a lobby at the United Nations talking with an African ambassador and his wife, when a Negro came up to me and said, “You know me?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know everything this meant to the island or for Negroes or for the whole country, but Mama breaking down in front of people was something we’d never seen before. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z