This student and others said they favored a multiculural curriculum, including Afro-American history and bilingual education, as long as one culture was not over-emphasized.

Just Listen To This Song I'm Singing (Afro-American history through song.)

The strength of the black church, central to Afro-American history, animates virtually every document in this series.

These questions reshaped labor history and also appealed to students of Afro-American history.

"This is a major error," said Ethelbert Miller, who does research in Afro-American history at Howard University in Washington.

"That invalidates the idea that Afro-American history is just a cultural pat on the back."

The mask of the cool, or facial serenity, has been noted at many points in Afro-American history:

In 1987 he established the Kathryn Huggins Prize at Harvard, an annual award honoring an outstanding undergraduate thesis in Afro-American history and culture.

It is a journey that began in his senior year at Duke, a fraternity boy studying Afro-American history, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

"It gives people a meaningful perspective on Afro-American history, which insures a higher level of human life for all people."