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National Urban League Negro Digest [July 1944]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09640.209 Author/Creator: National Urban League Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: July 1944 Pagination: 98 p. ; 19.7 x 13.8 cm. Order a Copy

One issue of Negro Digest dated July 1944. 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, Jim Crow laws, Franklin D. Roosevelt's re-election, and the Negro National League.

White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955
Stewart, Ollie, 1906-1977
Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Jr., 1914-1988

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