Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Kelly Miller
Born: July 18, 1863
Died: December 29, 1939 (aged 76)
Bio: Kelly Miller was an African-American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist, author, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century.
Known for:
- Out of the house of bondage (1914)
- The Negro in the new reconstruction (1919)
- Splintered