It is a great pity the word "Negro" was not outlawed in the Emancipation Proclamation as it certainly should have been. After people have been freed it is a cruel injustice to call them by the same name they bore as slaves.


Letter to the Editor. Washington Post [May 14, 1949]

Mary Church Terrell Quotes

It is a great pity the word Negro was not outlawed in the Emancipation Proclamation as it certainly should have been. After people have been freed it ...

It is a great pity the word Negro was not outlawed in the Emancipation Proclamation as it certainly should have been. After people have been freed it ...

It is a great pity the word Negro was not outlawed in the Emancipation Proclamation as it certainly should have been. After people have been freed it ...

It is a great pity the word Negro was not outlawed in the Emancipation Proclamation as it certainly should have been. After people have been freed it ...