Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White

By David Barton

About the book:

Setting the Record Straight reintroduces this generation to the forgotten heroes and untold stories from our rich African American political history:

• The Rev. Richard Allen, the founder of America’s first black denomination
• The Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, the first African American to deliver a sermon in Congress
• The Rev. Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first black U.S. Senator
• Joseph Hayne Rainey, the first African American elected to the U.S. Congress
• Jefferson Franklin Log, the first African American to give a speech to in the U.S. House
• John Rock, the first African American admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar
• John Roy Lynch, the first African American to preside over a national political convention
• The Rev. Frederick Douglass, the first African American to be appointed to office in four different presidential administrations

These heroes – and many others – are presented in this documentary of African American political history.