n the production "Shuffle Along" by Sissle and Blake.(1) As I read these works, I remember thinking of how I had been cheated as a student. Perhaps if I had been exposed to these pieces of literature, I would have more quickly championed to the aid of my Black American friends who struggled for integration; and who, in many ways, still do to this day. What seemed obvious to me as I read, was that African-Americans weren't, and aren't, unintelligent or uneducated; they were, and to a degree still are, unheard! The rationale there was voiced quietly during the writing of our 13th Am
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