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National Urban League Negro Digest [July 1943]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09640.207 Author/Creator: National Urban League Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: July 1943 Pagination: 96 p. ; 19.5 x 13.3 cm. Order a Copy

One issue of Negro Digest dated July 1943. African American authors illustrate the African American experience through travel and history essays. This issue includes writings about Abraham Lincoln, Fiji, Harlem, segregation in Baltimore, a roundtable discussion on discrimination and an essay by Langston Hughes.

Carter, Elmer, 1911-2011
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Buck, Pearl S., 1892-1973
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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