Eric HolderERIC HOLDER served as the 82nd attorney general of the United States from February 2009 to April 2015, the third-longest serving attorney general in U.S. history and the first African American to hold that office.

DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON is thePulitzer Prize-winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Read More Read Less