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Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: American Assumption Care Enough Government Hard Much New Take Take Care Themselves Work Work Hard

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In 1900, as the immigrants come down the gangplank into Jersey City, they expect the streets to be paved with gold, and they were only paved with gold in Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz,' of course.

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Topics: City Come Course Down Expect Frank Gold Immigrants Jersey Only Oz Paved Streets Were Wizard Wizard Of Oz

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The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but it is rather an ignored and underplayed story and one that we need to know more about.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: About Begun Business Historians Ignored Indeed Know Look Migration More Need Phenomenon Rather Return Story

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There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'

~David Levering Lewis

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The education business is a little murky because by 1900, it has been pretty well decided that a certain amount of education was required to make the system of repression work. You had to have people who showed up punctually. You had to have people who took their orders obediently and understand them fully.

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The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of literacy by the end of the century, by 1900, basic literacy has galloped ahead. People believed that education, of course, was the turnstile for advancement.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: Advancement African African Americans American Basic Believed Century Commitment Constant Course Education End Literacy Part People Ahead

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1900 was a bit of mixed bag, it seems to me, on the one hand, because this is the year when this country becomes the premiere producer of manufactured goods. Clearly, a lot of people were making a lot of money, but it's also a time that reflects the savaging of one of the deepest depressions.

~David Levering Lewis

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: May 25th, 1936

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