Source: Law & Liberty
by David Lewis Schaefer
“For too long, the history of race relations in the United States has been misrepresented as a battle between ‘progressive’ liberals, supposedly partisans of policies that benefited racial minorities, and ‘conservatives’ trying to block their advancement. Jonathan Bean’s Race and Liberty, of which the first edition appeared in 2009, constitutes an invaluable corrective to that portrayal. A partisan of the ‘classical’ liberal tradition — the liberalism of the American Founders, who believed in the Lockean doctrine of limited government, aimed at securing the equal rights of all individuals — Bean (history professor at Southern Illinois University) provides a collection of over 75 documents, accompanied by helpful, brief editorial commentary, which correct the record. The readings cover not only relations between ‘whites’ and racial minorities, but also immigration policy.” (06/24/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-classical-liberal-foundation-of-civil-rights/