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National Urban League Negro Digest [December 1943]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09640.208 Author/Creator: National Urban League Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: December 1943 Pagination: 96 p. ; 19.5 x 13.3 cm. Order a Copy

One issue of Negro Digest dated December 1943. Contains writings by African American authors illustrating the African American experience through travel and history essays. This issue includes a roundtable discussion on social equality, African American military history, Jim Crow laws, and the origin of the song, "Pistol Packin' Mama."

Zara, Louis, 1910-2001
Randolph, A. Phillip, 1889-1979

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