Places in The United States
- Backus Township, Michigan
- Backus, Minnesota
- Blennerhassett Island, West Virginia, originally known as Backus Island
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“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
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