Charles Williams once said that in the years to come who will read of the work of the negro Stevedores without feeling that America owes a great deal to these men? “Here we go again, Ada remarked rolling her eyes, Grandma starting her war stories with a quote. Should we be worried though that she used the word negro?” “Well if you could keep quiet little miss grumpy you’d know that’s one of the moments we let it slide for then, they got a glimpse of what more lay beneath the melanin we were famously known for carrying. Now have I told you the story of Uncle Willian Henry Johnson and how he…….
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60Unknown Black Achievers 