Edgar Toppin
Edgar Allan Toppin, Sr. (January 22, 1928 – December 8, 2004) was an African American professor of history, and an author who specialized in Civil War, Reconstruction and African American history. He spent the majority of his 40+ year teaching career at Virginia State University, and wrote ten books on the subjects of American and African American history. He served on several historical boards including the National Park Service, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, the later serving as President. As President, he was instrumental in turning Black History Week into Black History Month in 1976.
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“Come Vitus, are we men, or are we children? Of what use are all these melodramatic gestures? You say your soul was killed, and that you have been dead all these years. And what of me? Did we not both die here in Marmaros fifteen years ago? Are we any the less victims of the war than those whose bodies were torn asunder? Are we not both the living dead?”
—Peter Ruric, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff)