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In John Steinbeck’s book Travels with Charley, he moves across the country with a black dog. And the repeated joke he depicts, and it is nauseating, is that when he stopped for gas in the South, people kept saying, “I thought that was a nigger in your car.” The joke was a warning. Charley could not, after all, be in the front sitting alongside a Wh
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But he was about to become—beginning in that summer of 1957—the greatest champion that the liberal senators, and Margaret Frost and the millions of other black Americans, had had since, almost a century before, there had been a President named Lincoln.
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