Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family

Song for My Father is a daughter's memoir of her father, Charles M. Stokes, a prominent African-American member of the National Republican Party. Known as "Stokey," he was born just forty years after the abolition of slavery. But by the time he became a pioneer in the fields of law, legislation, and politics — during the turbulent and transformative 1960s and 70s — contemporary associations of the GOP with the "party of Lincoln" had faded. Stokes's choice to remain a Republican against the ...