| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 13101 |
| QUOTATION: | Negro history must be studied, not only because it is the history of over 19 millions, but American life as a whole cannot be understood without knowing it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Dorothy Allen Conley (b. 1904), African American teacher and advocate of African American studies. As quoted in Past and Promise, part 4, by Rebecca Batts Butler.
From a speech to the Gloucester County (New Jersey) Human Relations Council on October 25, 1966. |
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