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On June 18, 1974, my twenty-first birthday, I was sworn in as a police officer for the City of Colorado Springs, the first black to graduate from the ranks of the Police Cadet program.
Ron Stallworth • Black Klansman: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Southerner, Wilson had been president of Princeton, the only major northern university that flatly refused to admit blacks. He was an outspoken white supremacist—his wife was even worse—and told “darky” stories in cabinet meetings.
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
If the hoax served to highlight that issue, he suggested, then he had no problem with Collins's means of publicity. It is difficult to imagine anything that could be more discrediting to a civic leader than the remarks attributed to Smith.
Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
A typical offering on Correct The Record’s website included features such as “David Brock Calls on GOP to Disavow Trump,” “Trump Rally, Again, Glorifies Violence,” “Trump/Fox News Lies About Clinton Foundation Investigation,” “Donald Trump’s History of Discrimination, Racist Comments, and Support,” and “Hillary Clinton’s Accomplishments as Secretar
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Persuade Negroes that the Republican Party, rather than the Democratic, offered the best chance for justice for their race and the GOP might be able at last to get back the Negro vote. Get it back, and for years to come, even without an Eisenhower at the head of the ticket, it might be a Republican who occupied the White House. Get it back, and it
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but by blood”—his last words before execution were recorded, and, as has often been noted, they were prophetic. But they were also only partly true. Certain crimes were ceased by the Civil War, but they have not been purged. Not yet. Harpers Ferry is
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
institution that mattered. I have often said that if a dog were made the president of Yale, Yale would still get its money. This attitude had to change, and the most reliable way to make sure it changed was to increase the number of black people on company boards and in the higher echelons of corporate enterprises.