A Long Time Coming: The Role of Race In American History
Ray Anthony Shepard has put together an award-winning book for young readers to counter what he says are "<i>years of sanitized Black History months and schoolbooks</i>." He has chosen instead to tell the story from the inside - examining the question of race through the lyrical biographies of six prominent American heroes, all of whom challenged and changed the racial barriers of their day - Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B Wells, MLK and Barack Obama.<br/><br/><b>Cambridge Forum</b> guest speaker Shepard, intertwines his acade...
Source: wgbh.org
