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National Urban League Negro Digest [November 1940]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09640.206 Author/Creator: National Urban League Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: November 1940 Pagination: 96 p. ; 19.5 x 13.3 cm. Order a Copy

One issue of Negro Digest dated November 1940. Contains writings by African American authors relaying the African American experience through travel and history essays.

McKay, Claude, 1889-1948
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
Ellison, Ralph, 1914-1994
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963
Patterson, Louise Thompson, 1901-1999

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