Word: liberia
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...Many a U. S. Negro is received at the White House executive office. And of course foreign Negroes-officials from Liberia, Abyssinia, Haiti -present their credentials in the Blue Room...
...Dean's life work, the Back-to-Africa idea is not new. Paul Cuffee returned twelve slaves to West Africa, and their Liberia, founded 1822, was the first great movement. Bishop H. M. Turner, until Booker Washington silenced him in the '90s, advocated all U. S. Negroes to follow. Captain Harry Dean's call, issued at the turn of the Century, did not reach the race in a broadcast manner and was even less successful than the short-lived Black Star Line of Jamaica's Marcus ("Black Moses") Garvey, who was deported from...
...Republican Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett Jr. produced a candidate for Solicitor General, then one for Assistant Attorney General, but both offices went to other men. Kentucky's patronage demands de-scended to an appeal to President Hoover to appoint a Negro physician of Lexington as Minister to Liberia...
...fared the only Negroes ever admitted to Annapolis. At West Point, Negroes have fared better. Of twelve who were sent to West Point, three were graduated. The bones of one of them, Col. Charles Young, today rest in sacred Arlington as recognition of work well done in far-off Liberia...
...Allen went. He said he would rather live only six months more, usefully, in Africa, than ten years more in the U. S., where "a priest 70 years old is not wanted much." Last week came news that Father Allen had died, aged 79, in the mission of Bolahun. Liberia, whither his Lord had called...