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The radical roots of civil rights

A review of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 by Colin Kidd. A review of Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery, by Earl M. Maltz and Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil by Mark A. Graber. A review of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (and more and more). A review of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. More on A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. A review of South Carolina at the Brink: Robert McNair and the Politics of Civil Rights by Philip Grose. What if white history was excluded from society's consciousness except for a handful of days?