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Chicago, Negro digest Negro Digest [Volume X, No. 9 (July 1961)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09973.01 Author/Creator: Chicago, Negro digest Place Written: Chicago, Illinois Type: Booklet Date: July 1961 Pagination: 96 p. Order a Copy

One issue of the Negro Digest dated July 1961. Contains articles related to desegregation, entertainment, property value related to African Americans purchasing homes, testimonial of a former Black employee of the White House, discussion of Afro-Latinidad in Puerto Rico, poetry and other writings. Highlights an article on singer, Mahalia Jackson.

Negro digest (Chicago, Ill.), fl. 1961
Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008
Parks, Lillian Rogers, 1897-1997

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