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By Richard Hofstadter, Clarence L. Ver Steeg

This primary quantity of significant concerns in American heritage -- 3 volumes of files that hide the heritage of the United States from its cost to the current -- supplies us a beneficiant sampling from the foremost political controversies within the Colonial interval. integrated are such records as Richard Hakluyt's "Discourse of Western Planting" (1584), "Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King and Queen of Spain" (undated, most likely 1694), "The 3rd Virginia Charter" (1612), Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" (1776) and "The assertion of independence" (July four, 1776). each one has an explanatory headnote, and there are short basic introductions that set the decisions of their ancient context.

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Washington or the Back-to-Africa movement of Bishop Henry McNeil Turner. ' The newly created industrial complex also attracted significant numbers of immigrants from Northern mining communities or directly from Europe. By 1890 first- and second-generation immigrants, particularly Italians, Scots, Germans, and Britons, comprised nearly one-fourth of Birmingham's white population-a substantial number for the urban South. More striking is the fact that in 1910 one-half oE the coal, iron, and steel workers were immigrants, many of whom had been skilled colliers and metal workers before moving South.

7 The black elite could not always find complete satisfaction in material wealth when they, too, were denied basic democratic rights. Some black middle-class spokesmen searched for autonomous alternatives to Jim Crow within and without the region. African colonization and other emigration schemes were proposed by blacks and white liberals during the late nineteenth century, and in Oxford, Alabama, in 1899, a group of leading black citizens established one of the nation's first all-black towns. In virtually every case of black political assertion, however, the white status quo only recognized as spokespersons for the Afri~an~American community the black elite, whether followers of the accommodationist teachings of Booker T.

Excluding the greater Birmingham area and the surrounding industrial suburbs, the central core of black residence settled along the Twentieth Street axis from the southern section of the city toward the railroad tracks which ran through d o ~ n t o w n . ~ Not all blacks toiled in the mines, mills, kitchens, and streets of Birmingham. A tiny but influential black elite established a flourishing business district along Eighteenth Street in the heart of downtown. As early as 1890, the Reverend W.

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