Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Nathan Huggins

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Nathan Irvin Huggins was a distinguished American historian, author and educator. As a leading scholar in the field of African American studies, he was W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University as well as director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 62.

American - Historian | January 14, 1927 - December 5, 1989

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Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be achieved, were woven into the fabric that linked oneself to all. . .

Nathan Huggins

The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be "sold" to the public in terms they could understand.

Nathan Huggins

Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation

Nathan Huggins

For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.

Nathan Huggins

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.

Nathan Huggins

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Nathan Huggins

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