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LAW & HISTORY > educator, university president > Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
The Negro people...
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The Negro people of America . . . have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty . . .
Source: The Faith of the American Negro, Harvard commencement address, Jun 1922.
-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, (Jan 12 1890-1976), US educator, university president; He was president of Howard University for more than three decades; awarded the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP, 1928.