Henry Louis Gates Jr.: The Man Who Rebuilt the Archive
On the afternoon of July 16, 2009, a woman named Lucia Whalen stood on Ware Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, holding a cell phone. An older woman had stopped her on the sidewalk and pointed at a…
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