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This is the story of the evolution controversy set off by the Scopes trial. It deals with the problems in North Carolina educational institutions and such outstanding men as Poteat, Chase, Odum, and Morrison who sought reform.

Born in Tennessee in 1841, George L. Knox survived slavery and service with both Confederate and Union armies during the Civil War and afterward made his way north to find a chilly reception in Indiana. His autobiography covers the first 44 years of his life and tells how he persevered against threats, harassment, and physical intimidation to become a leading citizen of Indianapolis and an important figure of the Republican Party.

This monumental work is a classic study of the black "aristocracy" which developed in the United States in the years following Reconstruction. Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less-fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Rank within this black upper class rested on such issues as the status of one's forebears as either h...

Called upon for the first time during the Spanish-American War to render military service outside the United States, negro soldiers (called "smoked Yankees" by the Spaniards) tell their compelling story through letters sent back to U.S. newspapers.