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David Levering Lewis

American Historian

Born: May 25, 1936

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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

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

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

Education Higher Education Country Submit Defensive Response Has-Been Higher Academic Scientists Traditional Been Years Social Theory Preoccupation Many

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

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

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

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

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. David Levering Lewis

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

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

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

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

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

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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