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It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: American Andrew Backs Broke Carnegie Clay Clear Early Henry Homestead Many Men Men And Women Steel Strike Women Workers Working

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Philosophically, Dubois may have had no problem with a great African American institution. On the other hand, he always believed ultimately in the co-mingling of groups and the interplay of talents and in the collaboration of groups.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: African African American Always American Believed Collaboration Great Groups Had Hand He Institution May No Problem Other Philosophically Problem Talents Ultimately

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Harlem was an exciting place in the '50s. There were nightclubs that, as a student of Columbia, you dashed off to. The community seemed very viable still.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: Columbia Community Dashed Exciting Harlem Nightclubs Off Place Seemed Still Student Very Viable Were You

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Harlem was a development, a developer's dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem's destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: About Arriving Become Before Bust Destiny Developer Development Dream Ever Had Harlem Largely More Overnight Place Preserve Reached Residents Seemed Space Street Subway Successful Than Then Took Where

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The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: African African Americans American Blow Commitment Degree Each Expectation Failure Fatalism Finally Going More Much Point Repeated Scenario Seems Skepticism Some Story Success Until Where Work

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Harlem was the main chance for the east end of New York, for eastsiders, as that real estate boom that took place in the 1890s - and it was a preposterous one where people bought and sold, and everything appreciated with each sale - and eventually, of course, the house of cards would crumble.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: Appreciated Boom Bought Cards Chance Course Crumble Each East End Estate Eventually Everything Harlem House House Of Cards Main New New York People Place Real Real Estate Sale Sold Took Where Would York

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I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: About Always Analogy Art Because Been Biography Blake Craft Facts Find Her Like Lord Made Much Next Next Step Offers Practice Step Theory Too Too Much Unsure Who

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A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: Academic Been Country Defensive Education Higher Higher Education Many Preoccupation Response Scientists Social Submit Theory Traditional Years

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I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: American Before Being Biography Bones Conceit Deepest Experience Felt Historical History Like Narrative Nothing Privileged Right Sense Side Suggest Us

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I came into my teens unaware that most Americans, blacks as well as whites, were ignorant of the main facts of Negro history. And so it was the facts of other histories that I found most intriguing. I fell into a U.S. history major by chance late in my second year at Fisk University.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: American Blacks Came Chance Facts Fell Found Histories History Ignorant Intriguing Late Main Major Most Other Second Teens Unaware University Well Were Whites Year I Came

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: May 25th, 1936

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