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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
Samuel P. Huntington
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Samuel P. Huntington
Age: 81 †
Born: 1927
Born: April 18
Died: 2008
Died: December 24
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Samuel Phillips Huntington
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