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The Colored Alabamian Co. The Colored Alabamian

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC10121 Author/Creator: The Colored Alabamian Co. Place Written: Montgomery, Alabama Type: Newspaper Date: August 13, 1910 Pagination: 4 p. ; Order a Copy

One issue of the newspaper "The Colored Alabamian." Volume IV. Number 25. dated August 13, 1910. Published in Montgomery, Alabama by the Colored Alabamian Co. This issue has a report from S.R.W. Smith, the dean of Selma University's literary department, reporting on positive changes for African Americans in politics in Knoxville, Tennessee. There's also mention of a short-lived, little known African American periodical for which OCLC locates no copies: James E. McCall's “The Colored Servant Girl.”

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