Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher university professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

A group portrait of the first African-American legislators in the 41st and 42nd Congress

How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism

Even descendants of black heroes of Reconstruction have lost the memory of ...

Even descendants of black heroes of Reconstruction have lost the memory of their ancestors’ heroic achievements

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism

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