Allen David Patterson: 2 books

"It's him, the Dutchman..." Other names had come and gone in his lifetime, but the Dutchman always was his identity. It had been the name given him decades ago by a Frenchman. It was the only name that had stuck. The same Frenchman had given the African his nickname. The African was the...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...