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African Americans

A few kind words for Uncle Tom

Anarchy in St. Augustine

St. Augustine was born of the sea, cursed by the sea, caressed and plundered, made, destroyed, and reborn on the bosom of great waters . . . These florid phrases of the…

Race and renaissance in Philadelphia

by Nathaniel Burt,

Harlem Is Nowhere

by Ralph Ellison,

Brooke of Massachusetts

by Edward R.F. Sheehan,

A Negro governor on Beacon Hill?

The Pullman doctrine

by Louis Lusky,

Do our federal courts need emancipating?

by Louis Lusky,

A small band of practical heroes

by John Fischer,

The military’s limited war against segregation

by Ruth Brecher, Edward M. Brecher,

Kenwood foils the block-busters

by Elinor Richey,

What the GOP is doing in the South

by Virginius Dabney,

And how the result may be--paradoxically--a more liberal Congress