Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America Theodore Roosevelt Johnson III. 141 Apologizing for the Enslavement and ... 143 See Theodore Parker, “Of Justice and Conscience,” in The Collected Works of Theodore Parker, vol.
Fueled by Johnson's ultimate faith in the American project, grounded in his family's longstanding optimism and his own military service, When the Stars Begin to Fall is an urgent call to undertake the process of overcoming what has long ...
Weaving memories of his own family's experiences with strands of history, Johnson posits that a blueprint for national solidarity can be found in the exceptional citizenship long practiced in Black America, augmented by a more enduring ...
In this striking departure from the historical novels he is so well known for, James Lincoln Collier has written a powerful—even shocking—novel that challenges and defies the rhetoric of contemporary America.
Keeping her promise to reject slavery, Mayleda Callcott abandoned her family's South Carolina plantation. Now a widow and single mother in Philadelphia, she finds herself dependent on northern in-laws who...