Describes the efforts of Thomas Dorr to expand voting rights in Rhode Island to nonlandowning males. Discusses his leadership in the 1841 election in which voters ratified a People's Constitution that extended voting rights to white males who did not own land. (CFR)

Asserts that the story of people of African descent in the United States often has been ignored or distorted. Reports on a project to produce a single comprehensive research guide to the literature of black history and culture. Describes the proposed guide's contents and maintains that it will have over 10,000 bibliographic entries. (CFR)