An updated and expanded version of Joel Rogers' 1957 book by the same title. Some of this I knew and some was entirely new to me. Mexico had a Black president 180 years before the U.S. did; what’s myth and what’s documented fact about Harriet Tubman; a bit about Black saints; what has been learned about the roots of the U.S. population through the use of DNA testing and what the limits are to what it can tell us.