Carolina Quotes
No country is free in which the way upward is not open for every man to try, and for every properly qualified man to attain whatever of good the community life may offer.
Charles W. Chesnutt Carolinian
Source
"The Disfranchisement of the Negro," in The Negro Problem (New York: James Pott & Company, 1903)
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- essay
- work
- The Disfranchisement of the Negro
- year
- 1903
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