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Reporting Across the Color Line

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James McGrath Morris considered himself a colorblind liberal until he wrote the biography of a black female journalist. Then he learned how little he knew about race in America.

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I grew up overseas as an embassy brat and met my first black Americans in the early ’60s as an eight year old on summertime home leave when my parents engaged a couple from Fort Myers, Florida, to serve as domestic servants.

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