NAACP Voices from Paris TX

During twenty years of active journalism in New York I have found it to be true that the successes we achieve in life, of whatever character...

"For generations the Negro has been the peasant matrix of that section of America which has most undervalued him, and here he has contr...

"...On the road: It would be some hoodoo town It would be some cracker place you might meet redneck lynchers face to face but mos...

"From the start, it was evident that [Houston] had a mind ideally contoured for a career at law. He relished the kind of abstract think...

"There is a definition of black America but no definition of white America. And we are just as mixed up in views, needs, and aspira...

"The Brotherhood of Man is not so much a Christian doctrine as a fundamental biological law. For biology does not and cannot recogn...

"And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which wi...

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never b...

"Texans feel they have a claim on her and that the beautiful and poignant lyrics she writes resulted partially from the impression of h...