Juan Garrido: The first “African American”
February 10, 2017
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listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have never hated black listen we have been ashamed hopeless tired mad but always...
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We shall return To the houses, to our crops,to the beaches, to our fieldswe shall return To our...
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“We must take the unequivocal position that if the Black race is to perish, the world must perish...
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