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Negros
Negros , island (1990 pop. 3,182,252), 4,905 sq mi (12,704 sq km), one of the Visayan Islands, 4th largest of the Philippines, between Panay and Cebu. Although mountainous (Mt. Canloan, a volcano, rises to c.8,088 ft/2,465 m), Negros has extensive arable lowlands; they are intensively cultivated and... Read more
Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige (Leroy Paige) , 1906-82, American baseball player, b. Mobile, Ala. Celebrated for his wit and extraordinary pitching ability, he became legendary while barnstorming in the Negro baseball leagues prior to the integration (1947) of the major leagues. He played in as many as 2,500 games... Read more
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune , 1875-1955, American educator, b. Mayesville, S.C., grad. Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, 1895. The 17th child of former slaves, she taught (1895-1903) in a series of southern mission schools before settling in Florida to found (1904) the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute ... Read more
Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden , 1913-80, American poet, b. Detroit. After earning his M.A. at the Univ. of Michigan, he taught there and at Fisk Univ. Although the tone of his poems is quiet and often loving, he has a considerable gift for irony and his insights can be shattering. His Ballad of Remembrance (1962)... Read more
Melville Jean Herskovits
Melville Jean Herskovits , 1895-1963, American anthropologist, b. Bellefontaine, Ohio; educated at the Univ. of Chicago (Ph.B., 1920) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1923). After teaching at Columbia and at Howard Univ. he went to Northwestern Univ., where he taught anthropology from 1927. He did ethnographic ... Read more
Robert Clifton Weaver
Robert Clifton Weaver 1907-, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1966-68), b. Washington, D.C. He was successively adviser to the Secretary of the Interior (1933-37), special assistant with the Housing Authority (1937-40), and an administrative assistant with the National Defense Advis... Read more
Booker Taliaferro Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington 1856-1915, American educator, b. Franklin co., Va. His mother was a mulatto slave on a plantation, his father a white man. After the Civil War, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in Malden, W.Va., and attended school part time, until he was able to enter the Hamp... Read more
John Harold Johnson
John Harold Johnson 1918-2005, African-American magazine publisher, b. Arkansas City, Ark. The son of a mill worker, he began his career editing a Chicago insurance company magazine. In 1942 he started Negro Digest, a periodical modeled on Reader's Digest. Encouraged by its success, he founded ... Read more
Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr.
Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr. 1935-, African-American civil-rights leader and lawyer, b. Atlanta, Ga. A graduate of the Howard Univ. Law School, he was executive director (1970-71) of the United Negro College Fund and president (1972-81) of the National Urban League. After being wounded (1980) by a sni... Read more
Willie Howard Mays, Jr.
Willie Howard Mays, Jr. ( "Say Hey" Willie Mays), 1931-, American baseball player, b. Fairfield, Ala. He began his professional career at 17 with the Black Barons of the Negro National League. In 1951 he joined the New York Giants of the National League and led them to a world championship in 19... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "negro"

Negro
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Negro The term Negro emerged as a social and political marker for Africans south of the Sahara...be applied to anyone viewed as black, nonwhite, or non-European. Negro derives from the Latin niger , meaning “ black, ”...
Negroes in the American Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Negroes in the American Theatre...American colonial stage, since Negroes lacked social standing and...the precursor of many comic Negroes in American drama. Stage...Whites. The first outstanding Negro actor was Ira Aldridge , but...
Río Negro
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Río Negro rē´ō nā...iacute;o Branco. The Río Negro is connected with the Orinoco basin by...are shipped on it), the Río Negro was discovered (1638) by Pedro Teixeira...
Negro Ensemble Company
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Negro Ensemble Company, see NEGROES IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE .
American Negro Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre American Negro Theatre, see NEGROES IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE .
Embalse del Río Negro
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Embalse del Río Negro see Negro, Río , Uruguay.
American Negro spirituals
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition American Negro spirituals see spiritual .
Supplemental Brief for the Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, on Questions 4 and 5 Propounded by the Court
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...limitation suggested at Grant is that three Negro children isolated in the extreme northern...attend Grant, while the remainder of the Negro children continue at McKinley. **The...at Polk School is as follows: Several Negro children in this district live very close...
Weaver, Robert C.
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...treatises on the economic status of African Americans, Negro Labor (1946) and The Negro Ghetto (1948), and an influential textbook in...President Franklin D. Roosevelt, including Advisor on Negro Affairs to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes...
Carter Godwin Woodson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Carter Godwin Woodson Called the "Father of Negro History," Carter Godwin Woodson (1875...founding of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915. During his lifetime...served as obstacles to the progress of "the Negro race." He recorded these events as he...

Dictionary entries related to "negro"

National Council of Negro Women
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN. Mary McLeod Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935 to consolidate the activism of African American female professional and political organizations. The council...
Orfeu Negro
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ORFEU NEGRO (Black Orpheus) France-Italy-Brazil...Comment Camus a tourné Orfeu Negro," in Nouveaux Films Fran çais...anthologies routinely report that Orfeu negro is based on Orfeu da Conceiçao...
Negro
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology Negro black man, blackamoor. XVI — Sp., Pg. negro :- L. niger , nigr- black. So Negress ( -ESS1 ) XVIII — F. négresse . negrillo , negrito XIX. — Sp.
Negro Spiritual
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Negro Spiritual. See Spiritual .
Black Code of Mississippi (25 November 1865)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...freedman, free negro or mulatto to...freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes...freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes who are of pure negro blood, and those descended from a negro to the third generation...freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes...
Police Regulations of Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana (1865)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...for the conduct of said negro. But said employer or...owner may permit said negro to hire his own time...meetings or congregations of negroes shall be allowed within...however, is not to prevent negroes from attending the usual...6. … No negro shall be permitted to...
Harlem Renaissance
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...also by the names Black Renaissance or New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance represented...features. Certainly the words "black" and "Negro" mean that this movement centered on African...collection of editorial material in Voice of the Negro and Emmett Scott's Letters from Negro...
Robeson, Paul
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...article— "The Culture of the Negro," in Spectator, 15 June 1934. On ROBESON...Robeson, Eslanda Goode, Paul Robeson, Negro, New York, 1930. Graham, Shirley...E. B., "Paul Robeson, Right," in Negro Digest, March 1950. Mieirs, Earl Schenk...
Moynihan Report
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family. It is the fundamental source of weakness of the Negro community at the present time...family structure of lower class Negroes is highly unstable, and in many...
The Birth of a Nation
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...housekeeper ); Tom Wilson (Stoneman's Negro servant ); Sam De Grasse (Senator Sumner...New York, 1948. Noble, Peter, The Negro in Films, London, 1948. Wagenknecht...Thomas J., Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900–1942...

Thesaurus entries related to "negro"

black
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...designating Americans of African heritage, became the most widely used and accepted term in the 1960s and 1970s, replacing Negro . It is not usually capitalized: black Americans. Through the 1980s, the more formal African American replaced black in much...
wine
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...Moselle Moulin-à-Vent Mourvedre Mousseux Muscadel Muscadelle Muscadet Muscadine Muscat Muscatel Nebbiolo Negra Mole Negro Amaro Niersteiner nonvintage off-dry Oloroso Orvieto Palomino Pauillac Pedro Ximénez Petite Syrah Petite Verdot...

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Negro Leagues debate centers on Brewers' honoree: He says he played ball; others doubt life story, fund-raising efforts.
Newspaper article from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI); 6/2/2006; 700+ words ; ...Dennis Biddle, who says he played in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s, will be honored...interested in learning about the history of the Negro Leagues. But Biddle also is involved in a dispute with surviving Negro Leaguers who have their doubts about Biddle...
Negro League Unveils Licensing Program
Newspaper article from: Precinct Reporter; 12/9/1993; ; 605 words ; ...Ellison Precinct Reporter 12-09-1993 Negro League Unveils Licensing Program. Major...Properties (MLBP) will introduce a pro bono Negro Leagues licensing program, effective immediately...of revenues generated from the sale of Negro Leagues merchandise will be distributed...
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Receives $300,000 Grant from Bank of America Charitable Foundation.
PR Newswire; 5/30/2007; 700+ words ; ...Funding to support three-year tour of Negro Leagues exhibition to Historically Black...Mo., May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) announced...tour of the museum's acclaimed traveling Negro Leagues history exhibition, "Discover...
`Negro' was a misnomer, `West Indian' still is
Newspaper article from: New York Amsterdam News; 8/20/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...screaming, have moved from Negro to Black to African-American...movement to abolish the term Negro were socalled West Indians...not want to be referred to as Negroes, but many of them grinned in...shameful and incorrect as the term Negro. Post-enslavement trauma...
Negro Leagues debate centers on Brewers' honoree; He says he played ball; others doubt life story, fund-raising efforts
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/2/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Dennis Biddle, who says he played in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s, will be honored...interested in learning about the history of the Negro Leagues. But Biddle also is involved in a dispute with surviving Negro Leaguers who have their doubts about Biddle...
Negro Leaguers to get their share.
Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL); 5/17/2004; 700+ words ; ...Gregory Lewis Surviving players of the Negro Leagues, who were caught in the early...charitable program. In its third attempt to aid Negro Leaguers, Major League Baseball finally...players at a time. Those actions denied most Negro Leaguers the chance to show off their skills...
Del Negro deserves his share of credit
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times (IL); 4/21/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...public growing pains, Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro is standing tall now. We've debated...but we finally have our answer. Del Negro has earned the right to come back next...Celtics on Monday, it's clear that Del Negro has his team playing with confidence...
Del Negro brings 'intrigue' to Bulls.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 6/12/2008; 700+ words ; ...surprise pick for head coach, Vinny Del Negro took some time to remember his college...do to play better and be better?' Del Negro said. He would tell me and we would play...no coaching experience is printed on Del Negro's resume. Since retiring as a player...
The 'Negro' and Our Progress: Cases of Arrested Development
Newspaper article from: Los Angeles Sentinel; 11/23/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Sentinel 11-23-1994 The `Negro' and Our Progress: Cases of...not progress, thought the Negro will make you think change and...progress when it comes to us. The Negro sees motion and gets emotional...everybody else progresses. Silly Negroes. And we look just as silly...
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum receives $300,000 grant from Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Newspaper article from: The Broward Times; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Funding to support three-year tour of Negro Leagues exhibition to Historically Black...and Universities KANSAS CITY, MO - The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum announced this...tour of the museum's acclaimed traveling Negro Leagues history exhibition, Discover Greatness...