Three Negro students of Queens College (of the College of the City of New York) called on the chairman of the history department, one day last fall, to lodge a protest. A textbook used in the basic U.S. history course, they said, was offensive to their race. The book: Volume I of The Growth of the American Republic, by two of the nation's top historians, Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison and Columbia's Henry Steele Commager.
Educators regard the Morison-Commager book, now used in more than 500 schools and colleges, as "one of the finest in...
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