Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 the U. S. last year. Back-to-Africa movements, implying escape as the answer to the assimilation v. segregation problem, are nowadays...
...could the Herreros not chase the Dutchmen? "Not a ship among them," explained Silas, the uncle of this book's author. "That has been the downfall of our race...
Even at the age of twelve Harry Dean felt in a measure responsible for his race. His great-grandfather, Paul Cuffee, was the first Negro to petition an American legislature against slavery. Paul's shipbuilder-father, Sam, was Said Kafu back in the old country-North Africa. Harry felt like carrying...
...vast territory of Portuguese East Africa including the city of Lorenco Marques for ?50,000 sterling." The territory was cheap because it stood between English and Boers, who were having a war. Dean wanted to snap up the offer with the aid of the tycoons of his own race in the U. S. He would install power in the Pedro Gorino, transport U. S. Negroes back to Africa by the boatload. But his race brethren gave him no support...
...Chicago authorities introduced them. Harry Dean, like Trader Horn, was broke, peddling his talents. North was 20, a poet, storyteller, student; Dean was 63, face sun-golden, hair silver, head ringing with words of Horace, Casanova, Cellini, Dumas. He had long been an adventurer on the continent truly his race's for 16,000 years. How much dark embroidery he has put on his life story, it is impossible, and unimportant, to tell. It is a cracking good story...