I would compare him to Carter Woodson and W.E.B. Du Bois,

I always incorporate into my lectures the voices of everyday people and people long excluded from the American narrative,

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.

What he did was to demonstrate to a very skeptical and rather sometimes indifferent profession ... that the history of black Americans was a legitimate field for scholarly inquiry and investigation.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.