David T. Beito is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Alabama. He is an editor of Rose Lane Says: Thoughts on Race, Liberty, and Equality, 1942–1945 (South Dakota Historical Society Press). He is also author of T.R.M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer and, most recently, The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute).
The Libertarian Pioneer Who Wrote for America's Biggest Black Newspaper
To Rose Wilder Lane, African Americans' achievements were all the more amazing given their disadvantaged starting point.
