The Negro League teams were started in the nineteen twenties to give black people a place to play baseball.

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Virginians wanted Brown punished quickly to show what would happen to anyone who tried to lead a Negro rebellion.

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People who owned negro slaves wanted to take all their property -- including the slaves -- with them when they moved west.

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Then a free Negro man who worked at the railroad station, Hayward Shepherd, walked down to the bridge.

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All southerners declared that they would fight to protect their homes from a Negro rebellion or from another attack by men like Brown.

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Many of the best baseball players in the United States played in the Negro Leagues before white professional teams began accepting black players.

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Some observers said that Jackie Robinson was not the best player in the Negro Leagues.

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At a meeting of the National Negro Business League, Madam Walker explained that she was a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

She arrived at school in New York City -- only to learn that an unwritten limit of "two Negro students per year" had already been met.

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One resolution would make slaves of all Negro soldiers captured from the Union army.

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"I agree with Judge Douglas," Lincoln said, "that the Negro is not my equal in many ways certainly not in color, perhaps not mentally or morally.

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Then at night, the negro would be taken to another hiding place farther north.

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It was one of the most famous baseball teams in the Negro League.

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But,he was unhappy in the Negro League because of the difficult life there.

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And war for the Negro was openly begun with stronger effort than before.

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Slave owners threatened to beat or hang any Negro who even looked rebellious.

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It was their home. Negro slaves took great chances to escape to freedom.

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She was the longtime chairwoman of the National Council of Negro Women.

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The majority decided that a negro was not a citizen.

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It was a hard life for Negro League players.

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So,he decided to play with the Negro Baseball League.

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"I do not accept the Negro as my equal,"

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that negro slavery is violative of that principle;

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They beat,burned,and hanged every Negro they could find.

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"We Shall Overcome" came from a Negro spiritual.

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He said he opposed Negro citizenship.

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The Thirteenth Amendment freed all Negro slaves.

VOA: special.2010.02.04