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National Urban League Negro Digest [October 1944]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09640.210.01 Author/Creator: National Urban League Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: October 1944 Pagination: 98 p. : Height: 19.6 cm, Width: 13.7 cm Order a Copy

One issue of Negro Digest dated October 1944. Contains writings by African American authors illustrating the African American experience through travel and history essays. This issue includes a roundtable discussion topics: Jim Crow laws affecting musicians, segregation, labor, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection.

Wilson, Teddy, 1912-1986
Higginbotham, J.C., 1906-1973
Page, Oran Thaddeus, 1908-1954
Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952
Dewey, Thomas Edmund, 1902-1971
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945

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