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  165. 1 2 "Race Unity: North Shore Baha'is take lead with walk through Wilmette". The American Baha'i. Vol. 21, no. 4. April 1991. associate professor of history and urban affairs at Michigan State University and author of the book "Racial Unity: An Imperative for Social Progress", Dr. Thomas is also founder and president of New World Associates Inc., a consulting firm in the area of race relations and issues of diversity.
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  167. 1 2 3 4 5 Richard Walter Thomas (1993). Racial unity: an imperative for social progress. Association for Baháʼí Studies. ISBN   978-0-920904-25-1.
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  172. 1 2 Richard W. Thomas (August 1, 1992). Life for Us Is What We Make It Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915–1945. Blacks in the Diaspora Distribution. Indiana University Press. ISBN   978-0-253-35990-2.
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  185. 1 2 Richard Walter Thomas (January 1996). John H. Standfield II (ed.). Understanding interracial unity: a study of U.S. race relations. Sage series on race and ethnic relations. Vol. 16. Sage Publications. ISBN   978-0-8039-4602-6.
  186. 1 2 Richard Walter Thomas (January 1996). Understanding interracial unity: a study of U.S. race relations. Sage Yearbooks in Women's Policy Studies. Vol. 16. Sage Publications. ISBN   978-0-8039-4602-6.
  187. 1 2 Formisano, Ronald P. (Mar 22, 1997). "Review of Understanding Interracial Unity: A Study of U.S. Race Relations". Journal of American Ethnic History. 16 (3): 110–121. ISSN   0278-5927. JSTOR   27502197.
  188. 1 2 Mattiace, Shannan L. (Oct 1, 1997). "Book reviews; Richard W. Thomas, "Understanding Interracial Unity: A Study of U.S. Race Relations". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 20 (4): 858–9. doi:10.1080/01419870.1997.9993992. ISSN   0141-9870.
  189. 1 2 Feagin, Joe Richard (May 1, 1996). "Sociology – Understanding Interracial Unity: A Study of U.S. Race Relations by Richard W. Thomas". Choice. 33 (9): 1564. doi:10.5860/CHOICE.33-5418. ISSN   0009-4978. Here Thomas, author of the prize-winning Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building the Black Community in Detroit, 1915–1945 (CH, Jan'93) provides the first overview in a decade that deals in depth with interracial efforts to end racism since the 18th century. Not intended to be comprehensive, the book still offers much useful detail on the antislavery movement, the organization of early civil rights groups such as the NAACP, and recent civil rights organizations and movements. Thomas not only discusses black efforts and demands but also includes sharp profiles of antiracist whites, among them, the Grimke sisters, the brilliant revolutionary John Brown, Civil War Republican Thaddeus Stevens, the NAACP's Joel Spingarn, and Topeka's Esther Brown. In a nation facing the possibility of great racial upheavals, a book showing whites and blacks cooperating in struggles against racism is welcome. Its main flaw is an inadequate attention to recent literature on antiracism. Fair bibliography and good index. All levels.
  190. 1 2 Herod, Charles C. (Jan 1, 1999). "The Racial Status-Quo: Problem of Identity. Review: Understanding interracial unity: a study of U.S. race relations by Thomas, Richard". Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism. 26 (1–2): 139. ISSN   0317-7904. A review essay on books by (1) Richard W. Thomas, Understanding Interracial Unity: A Study of U.S. Race Relations (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996);... These honest volumes contribute to understanding the identity problem in the Afro-American community & the racial status quo in the US. Thomas traces the interracial struggle for justice since the colonial period, believing that the more people know about how much blacks & whites have collaborated to promote interracial justice, the more it will be promoted....
  191. 1 2 Catherine A. Gibson (2012). "Being the Change: MRULE". The Engaged Scholar. Vol. 7, 2012. Michigan State University. Retrieved Nov 18, 2017.
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  199. ↑ Partial reference: Richard W. Thomas (2001). "Interracial and Multiracial unity movements in the US: Models of World Peace". World Order. 33 (4). – see Jonah Winters (April 2013). "Analysis of Topics Published in World Order; New World Order; Peace and Racial Unity" (PDF). Bahai-Library.com. pp. 14–15. Retrieved Nov 7, 2017.
  200. 1 2 Gazel, Jeanne (2001). Building community on campus – the interdepent theory and practice of the MultiRacial Unity Living Experience-MRULE (PhD). American Studies, Michigan State University. OCLC   48209239.
  201. ↑ Kathleen Lavey (13 Nov 2002). "A tale of two Richards...; MSU professors choose distinct ways to express themselves in verse". Lansing State Journal. pp. 27, 29. Retrieved Nov 4, 2017.
  202. 1 2 Richard Walter Thomas (2002). Bridging Racial Divides in Michigan's Urban Communities: Historical Analysis of Selected Organizational and Group Efforts. Informing the debate. Institute for Public Policy & Social Research and Urban Affairs Programs at Michigan State University. p. 21.
  203. ↑ Wilbert L. Jenkins (2003). Seizing the New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston. Indiana University Press. p. 7. ISBN   978-0-253-21609-0.
  204. 1 2 Muthuswamy, Nithya (2003). Diversity initiative outcomes – An inquiry into the consequences of adopting MRULE. A social innovation aimed at bridging the racial divide on a college campus (Master's Thesis). MSU.
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  207. ↑ Anne Gordon Perry; Rosanne Adams-Junkins; Robert Atkinson; Richard Grover; Diane Iverson; Robert H Stockman; Burton W.F. Trafton Jr. (2012) [1991]. Green Acre on the Piscataqua: A Centennial Celebration (3rd ed.). Baha'i Publishing Trust. p. 121. ISBN   978-0-87743-364-4. In prepararion for the one hundredth anniversary of the peace treaty of 1905 that ended the Russo-Japanese War, ... Dr. Richard Thomas met with local officials of the NAACP and the Seacoast African-American Cultural Center along with local school officials to discuss 'Building Multi-Racial Communities'.
  208. ↑ Christopher Buck (2005). Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy. Kalimat Press. p. 10. ISBN   978-1-890688-38-7.
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  212. 1 2 Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis; Richard Thomas (2006). Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Baháʼís in North America, 1898–2004. Baháʼí Publishing Trust. ISBN   978-1-931847-26-1.
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  216. ↑ Ali M. Thomas; June M. Thomas; Richard W. Thomas (2007). "Lingering Racism Calls for Reflection and Action". Annals of Internal Medicine. 147 (4): 282–3. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-147-4-200708210-00020. PMID   17709767.
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  227. ↑ Robert Stockman (September 30, 2013). "37th ABS Annual Conference Plenary Sessions Recordings Available". Wilmette Institute. Retrieved Nov 7, 2017.
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