Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Nathan Huggins

Born: January 14, 1927
Died: December 5, 1989 (aged 62)
Bio: Nathan Irvin Huggins was a distinguished American historian, author and educator. As a leading scholar in the field of African-American studies, he was W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University as well as director of the W. E. B.
Known for:
- Black odyssey (1977)
- Harlem renaissance (1971)
- Slave and citizen (1980)
- Protestants against poverty (1971)