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Ed Smith
American
Politician
Black
Community
Live
Living
People
You
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith
Black
Pay
Community
Black Community
Prices
Integration
Disintegration
People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth.
Ed Smith
People
School
Complexion
Live
Marry
Able
Go
Where
Want
Regardless
Forth
Choice
Should
Whoever
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
Ed Smith
Youth
People
Job
Black
Few
Community
Living
Kind
Some
Doing
Were
Very
Any
Public
Working
Useful
Even
Recall
Assistance
When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.
Ed Smith
You
People
Black
Live
Area
Course
Least
Were
Up
Themselves
Required
Washington
Growing
Growing Up
Among
There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.
Ed Smith
You
Yourself
Overcome
Complexion
Skin
Way
Outer
Could
Through
Look
Because
Were
Discriminated
Clothing
Which
Against
Your
Presented
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
Ed Smith
Myself
Me
Inferiority
Sense
Think
Segregated
Had
No-One
Knew
None
Up
Whatsoever
Any
Experienced
Stories
Social
Grandparents
Washington
Growing
Growing Up
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith
Business
Black
Before
Philosopher
Small
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Entrepreneurship
Owners
Business Owners
Washington
Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
Ed Smith
People
Master
Few
Those
Prominent
Blacks
Both
Opened
Well
Chefs
Came
Were
South
Up
Very
Survived
Upper
Establishments
Them
Certainly
Deep
Many
Washington
Deep South
Here
The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.
Ed Smith
Dreams
Black
Own
Community
Our
Wildest
Wildest Dreams
Black Community
Restaurants
Able
Small
Had
Masonic
Beyond
His
Shops
Theaters
Clubs
Mean
Succeed
Newspapers
Washington
When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.
Ed Smith
You
Man
Dark
Light
Black
Somebody
White
Community
Say
Possibly
Embrace
Black Community
Entire
Someone
Could
Pass
Hue
Very
Regardless
Whether
Race
Means
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
Ed Smith
War
Constitution
Reality
Burden
Added
Respects
Civil
Some
Blacks
Civil War
Segregation
Beyond
Because
End
Amendment
Expectations
Many
Elevated
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