[B]y what inattention these scurrilously racist Republicans… - Allen C. Guelzo

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[B]y what inattention these scurrilously racist Republicans installed the first African-American secretary of state and national security advisor, appointed a black Supreme Court justice, elected the first black U.S. senator since Reconstruction, and sent the troops into Little Rock.

Allen C. Guelzo

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Allen Carl Guelzo (born 1953) is an American historian.

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[R]eligious commitment formed the backbone of much of the North's hostility to slavery.

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