Lipset's American Creed

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may have elected to
ignore the issue, he hardly thinks that it was a good idea. "It encouraged the
belief that American history-its institutions, its values, its people- was one
thing and racial slavery and oppression were a different story" (Huggins xii).
He reinforces this idea by looking at the historical perspective that was
prevalent in America until only recently. "American historians, guarding the
ideological integrity of the center, have wanted to treat race and slavery as
matters apart from the real, central story of American history" (Huggins xvi).
Race and slavery. Two concepts that most people would agree are forever
linked in America. To assume that blacks and white became equals after the
Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War is ludicrous. The South immediately
began establishing what came to be known as Jim Crow laws. Roger B. Taney,
Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, wrote in a court document that "black"
Americans (which is to say any American of ...

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