News and Views: Two African Americans Awarded Rhodes Scholarships

From: Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The | Date: January 31, 2000 | Copyright information


Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The

01-31-2000

News and Views: Two African Americans

Awarded Rhodes Scholarships

Like most Europeans of his time, British industrialist Cecil J. Rhodes
believed in the inherent superiority of the white race. Writing in 1877 he
said, "I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more
of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy
those parts that are at pr...

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