James H Johnston
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This is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. Using diaries, court records, legal documents, books, paintings, photographs, and oral histories, From Slave Ship to Harvard traces a family-from the colonial period and the American Revolution through the Civil War to Harvard and finally today-forming a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement.
Yarrow Mamout was an educated Muslim from Guinea, brought...
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Late in his life, former president Lyndon B. Johnson told a reporter that he didn’t believe the Warren Commission’s finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy. Johnson thought Cuban president Fidel Castro was behind it. After all, Johnson said, Kennedy was running "a damned Murder, Inc., in the Caribbean," giving Castro reason to retaliate. '
Murder, Inc., tells the story of the CIA’s assassination...