The progress
of history may not be the wide highway moving steadily and
smoothly upward as many have believed, but the racial picture in
America has altered and will continue to do so- -sometimes for the
better, sometimes for the worse. Nevertheless, it is only by knowing
ourselves that we can intelligently face our crises. I hope that this
volume will assist the reader as he struggles with this difficult
task.
Norman Coombs
September, 1971
Acknowledgements
I would like to express my deep appreciation to the National
Endowment for the Arts and Humanities and to the Rochester
Institute of Technology for providing me with much of the time
which made this research possible. I am also indebted to
Professors Benjamin Quarles and Merle Curti for kindly reading
and commenting on the manuscript. My thanks are also extended to
my father, Earl Coombs, for his invaluable assistance in helping
with the hours of painstaking research demanded by such a
project. Miss Dorothy Ruhl provided the detailed, careful labor
necessary to help prepare the manuscript for the printer, and
Mrs.
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