How, then, should American literature deal with these peopl… - Louis Everett Burnham

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How, then, should American literature deal with these people, crushed for centuries beneath an insufferable weight of exploitation, calumny and derision, yet always rising, their presence and their struggle ever mocking the strident pretensions of the nation?

Louis Everett Burnham

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Louis Everett Burnham (September 29, 1915 – February 12, 1960) was an African-American civil rights activist and journalist.

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Much of what Negroes fight for today is not to gain new ground but to restore positions once dearly won and foully taken away.

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