Four Hundred Souls
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What’s it about?
A chorus of ninety voices tells the four-hundred-year story of Black America, from 1619 to Black Lives Matter, in essays, poems, and reflections that reveal Black history as the engine of the American story.
You’ll learn
- Black history is the engine of America
- Resistance took many forms from the start
- Reconstruction's promise was violently crushed
- The struggle continues in new forms today