Negro Year Book: An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro ... 1947,1952Negro year Book Publishing Company, 1916 - African Americans |
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Page 115 - of the United States. Including the militan- and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them. In any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
Page 116 - forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. "And upon this act. sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity. I Invoke the considerate judgment of
Page 144 - all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime * * * shall have the same right, in every
Page 144 - the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, * * * and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings in the security of persons and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment and
Page 114 - PRELIMINARY PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-chief of the army and navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States
Page 49 - common occupations of the community is of the very essence of the personal freedom and opportunity that it was the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment to secure. If this could be refused solely upon the ground of race or nationality the prohibition of the denial to any person of the equal
Page 150 - In his last public speech, April 11, 1865, in speaking of the New Louisiana Government he said: "It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent and on those who serve our cause as soldiers.
Page 150 - not be let in, as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone.
Page 116 - all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. "And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable conditions, will be received Into the armed service of the United States to
Page 116 - Sec. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce