RIP Albert Raboteau giant of African American Religious History...his family has posted his entire body of work online

[basquebromance]

a great legacy, RIP!

Albert Raboteau

The year was 1982. The Baseball Hall of Fame welcomed Hank Aaron among its ranks; the final episode of the Lawrence Welk Show aired; John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize for Rabbit Is Rich; President Ronald Reagan met with both Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth II; Martina Navratilova won both...

aas.princeton.edu

 

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...when I was growing up, I never saw African Americans as different or as African Americans --just Americans ...such a Lou Brock or Hank Aaron

 

[basquebromance]

"when i was a little kid, i knew something was wrong. everything good was white. Santa Claus, Jesus, Miss America, the good cowboy rode on a white horse. angel food cake is white and the devil's food cake is black...even the president lived in a white house" - Raboteau