The government feared its Negro citizens only a little less than it feared the Lizards.
The Negro citizens of Arcadia who were members of the St. Duty C.M.E. Church invited Crawford to return to Arcadia to build another school.
In 1835, Owen was a prominent member of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention; there, he supported enfrancishement of land-owning Negro citizens and opposed religious tests for officeholders.
For many black intellectuals, it seems, slavery had been represented all too much, at least as a salient shaping force in the history of Negro citizens seeking to end legal segregation.
But in this case, completely fencing Negro citizens out a district is an unlawful segregation of black citizens and a clear violation of the Equal Protection Clause.
I hoped she was referring to our Negro citizens as "brothers" rather than my captors.
King said that Mrs. Parks was regarded as "one of the finest citizens of Montgomery-not one of the finest Negro citizens, but one of the finest citizens of Montgomery."
A gold-capped cane presented to Dr. Dyer by the Negro citizens of Chicago in memory of this incident still rests in the collection of the Chicago History Museum.
Wood accused the group of threatening "violence and riot" in the capital; the group responded that the white supremacy of the status quo "is constantly the scene of 'violence and riot' against Negro citizens."
Five Negro citizens died as a result, and despite assigning a dozen officers to the case, Ed Exley has not been able to come up with a single arrest.