It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

. . . Historical facts are all pervasive and cut through the most rigid barriers of race and caste.