Argues that the inhabitants of Albemarle County (in rural Piedmont Virginia), white, black, and mixed-race treated each other more on the basis of a person's re

The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relation

In the summer of 1964, people travelled to Mississippi from all over America to join local blacks in their battle for equality. Herbert Randall, an African-Amer

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Barack Obama is the first African American President, but the history of African Americans in the White House long predates him. The building was built by slave