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a Phantom Negro

Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., is seen during an interview in his home in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Jan. 18, 2008. Gates, Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, and fellow Harvard professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham edited an eight-volume African American National Biography that includes the stories of more than 4,000 black Americans.

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a Phantom Negro