In Arturo Schomburg's "The Negro Digs Up His Past," his first few lines call me to action: "The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future--History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generations must repair and offset. So among the rising democratic millions we find the Negro thinking more collectively, more retrospectively than the rest, and apt out of the very pressure of the present to become t