Word: pre
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Southern states immediately began returning to the "Black Codes," pre-14th turning to the "Black Codes" Amendment laws designed to keep the Negro in a status not far removed from slavery. There came to power in the South politicians such as "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, governor and later Senator from South Carolina, who publicly proclaimed that the Negro was biologically inferior to the white man. When "inoculated with the virus of equality," said Tillman, the Negro became "a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour...
...Separate Be Equal? The U.S. Supreme Court has never spoken directly on the subject of segregation in the public pre-college schools. The decision that has long been used by Southern states as the guide on segregation is Plessy v. Ferguson, a transportation case. It arose on June 7, 1892, when Homer Adolph Plessy bought a ticket on the East Louisiana Railroad, from New Orleans to Covington, La. Plessy, seven-eighths white and one-eighth Negro, took a seat in the white coach on the segregated train. When he refused to move, he was taken off and jailed. The case...
...assemble a monument to the American past, and over the years collected examples of the best works of the painters of the U.S. frontier: George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and some 250 others. He also bought masterpieces by Homer, Whistler and Sargent, and a collection of pre-Columbian gold work. Among his 70,000 books and manuscripts are a copy of the Declaration of Independence signed by Benjamin Franklin, the first letter ever written from the New World to the Old (by Christopher's son Diego Columbus), the original of a letter commissioning Paul Revere as a messenger...
...phrase) "sown among ruins." He has shown his time that Stalin's famous question was not so much cynical as naive, and that anyone who perceives power only in divisions, or in bread and machines, sees the world about as realistically as a pre-Copernican astronomer...
...world market for five months, will soon be coming back again, at competitive prices. Chile has given its American-owned mining companies permission to start selling their 30,000-ton monthly production, and the new supplies may cut prices as much as 10? a lb., almost down to the pre-Korea level of about...