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1874–1938 Puerto Rico
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (January 24, 1874 – June 10, 1938), was a historian, writer, collector, and activist for equal rights. Schomburg was a Puerto Rican of African and German descent.
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José Martí always stated that the republic would have been impossible without the brawn and muscle of all races.
What of it if the darker races are getting consciousness, isn't the world large enough for the people of all bloods to dwell therein?
The works of José Julián Acosta and Salvador Brau have been my first inspiration to a further and intense study of the Negro in America.
The Negro has been throughout the centuries of controversy an active collaborator, and often a pioneer, in the struggle for his own freedom and advancement.
Negro Digs Up His Past (1925)
The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.
Negro Digs Up His Past (1925)
With such crucial truths to document and establish, an ounce of fact is worth a pound of controversy
Negro Digs Up His Past (1925)
By virtue of their being regarded as something "exceptional," even by friends and well-wishers, Negroes of attainment and genius have been unfairly disassociated from the group and group credit lost accordingly.
Negro Digs Up His Past (1925)
Already the Negro sees himself against a reclaimed background, in a perspective that will give pride and self-respect ample scope, and make history yield for him the same values that the treasured past of any people affords.
Negro Digs Up His Past (1925)
Many Cuban Negroes curse the dawn of the Republic. Negroes were welcomed in the time of oppression, in the time of hardship, during the days of revolution, but in the days of peace and of white immigration they are deprived of positions, ostracized and made political outcasts. The Negro has done much for Cuba; Cuba has done nothing for the Negro.
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