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That moment – the young man later wrote – changed his life. It gave him a sense of belonging where there was none before. It made him realise, at a time when race relations in the United States were still fraught, that a black family could feel at home in a white area and that there could be relationships that were colour-blind. Over the years, he
... See moreJonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
Agassiz’s son, Alexander, who was trained by his father and served as his principal museum assistant, became a leading zoologist, a pioneer in oceanography, and made a fortune in copper mining, much of which he ultimately devoted to the museum and other work begun by his father. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, in less than a decade after her husband’s
... See moreDavid McCullough • Brave Companions
Gracious alive, Cal, what’s all this?” He was staring at his breakfast plate. Calpurnia said, “Tom Robinson’s daddy sent you along this chicken this morning. I fixed it.” “You tell him I’m proud to get it—bet they don’t have chicken for breakfast at the White House. What are these?” “Rolls,” said Calpurnia. “Estelle down at the hotel sent ’em.”
... See moreHarper Lee • To Kill a Mockingbird
she set about lecturing, organizing, petitioning, and raising money throughout New York.
Stephen Cope • The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
the gracious Southerner, the wise Southerner, the kind Southerner was nowhere visible. I knew that if I were white, I would find him easily, for his other face is there for whites to see. It is not a false face; it is simply different from the one the Negro sees.
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
“We can scarcely take up a newspaper that is not filled with nauseating flatteries of the late Robert E. Lee,” Douglass wrote. “It would seem from this that the soldier who kills the most men in battle, even in a bad cause, is the greatest Christian, and entitled to the highest place in heaven.”
Jon Meacham • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
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Princeton is very polite. And it elicits rage. Until 2020 the policy school was named after avowed racist, and former president of both the university and the United States, Woodrow Wilson. The students who protested the name of the school in the late 2010s called themselves the Black Justice League. The “BJL” posted Wilson’s racist words around
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