TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HISTORY'S 'BLACK JUDAS'

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Thursday, September 28, 2000

Not long after leaving his teaching job in the Southeast history department 18 years ago, Dr. John David Smith began trying to figure out why a man so hated his origins that Booker T. Washington called him "a man without a race."

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