...eternally protests. We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs...America. The battle we wage is not for ourselves alone, bur for all true Americans. It is a fight for ideals, lest this, our common fatherland, false to its...

...retreated . . . We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American . . . and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest. (WEB DuBois, Manifesto of the Niagara...

...satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights . . . and until we get those rights we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America." As his ideas impacted blacks in churches of Christ, probably the most important influence was his ideas...

...eternally protests. We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs...not for ourselves alone but for all true Americans. lt is a fight for 46. Villard, John Brown, pp. 586, 588. 47. Aptheker, pp. 91-92. 48. WEB DuBois, Autobiography,...

...read in part: "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or title less than our full manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs...not for ourselves alone but for all true Americans." The address concluded with the declaration, "We are men, we will be treated as men. And we shall win."...

...to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights," the Niagara Address of 1906 declared. "We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs...to protest and assail the ears of America. ' ' The year of 1 906 witnessed two events that suggested just how long the ears of white America would have...

...and eradication of distinctions based on race and color, those who founded the movement intended to "claim for ourselves every single right that belongs...cease to protest and assail the ears of America." Ransom was active from the beginning; Gayraud Wilmore has dubbed him "the unofficial chaplain of the...

...our manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to free born Americans, political, civil and social; and until we get these...cease to protest and assail the ears of America."" The document raised specific demands for the right to vote, an end to discrimination in public accommodations,...

...concessions from the white oppressor. "We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a free American, political, civil and social, and until we...will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America."107 For Du Bois, blacks confronted a single and obvious enemy: white racism. Washington's...

...abolitionism and Reconstruction. "We claim for ourselves," Du Bois wrote in the group's manifesto, "every single right that belongs to a freeborn American,...cease to protest and assail the ears of America." Five years later, he joined with a group of white reformers in creating the National Association for...