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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.

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Negro Digs Up His Past (1925)

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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 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

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