1. “We have been instructed to look at the Negro as idle, worthless, indolent and disloyal, but a careful examination of the West Indies and South America does not show this to be true…. There is not a single field of industrial activity in which the descendants of the African have not contributed their mite….” —Arturo Alfonso Schomburg at the annual meeting of the American Negro Academy, December 1915

    “We have been instructed to look at the Negro as idle, worthless, indolent and disloyal, but a careful examination of the West Indies and South America does not show this to be true…. There is not a single field of industrial activity in which the descendants of the African have not contributed their mite….” —Arturo Alfonso Schomburg at the annual meeting of the American Negro Academy, December 1915

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