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Ric Murphy's award-winning book, "Freedom Road: An American Family Saga from Jamestown to World War" is an historic account of the oldest recorded American family of African descent, and their participation and rich contributions to American history over a four hundred year period. It is a compilation of well-documented individual stories that begins in Africa in 1483, and from there, spans over fifteen generations and three continents, and de...

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From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too po...

Ric Murphy is an educator, historian, lecturer, philanthropist and award-winning author. He has established himself as a masterful writer by sharing the history and major contributions made by African Americans over four hundred years of United States history, in a clear and compelling manor. Ric unveils a rich tapestry of American history by weaving together personal stories of amazing men and women, set in the backdrop of both domestic and i...

The biography of Rear Admiral Lawrence Cleveland Chambers is a story of one of America's historic naval men who overcame the prejudices of the segregated American South, who excelled and integrated the US Naval Acadmy, and became the first African American to command a navy carrier squadron. It is a deeply personal and revealing account of a remarkable journey of man whose career paralleled the geopolitical conflict of the Cold War.