Expressly intended to demonstrate America's national progress toward utopia, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago pointedly excluded the contributio

"This entrancing book looks at [the clash of class and caste within the black community] . . . . An important reexamination of African American history." —Cho

“She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the