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ADMINISTRATIVE PROGRAMS, 1916-1969
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Administrative Meetings, Office Social Gatherings, and
Facilities, 1925-ca. 1960, bulk 1935-1942.
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Buildings and facilities, ca. 1925-1949 |
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Call No.: LOT 13083, nos. 19-29 (F) |
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Promotional and Publication Materials, ca. 1943-ca.
1959.
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Call No.: LOT 13084 (F) (H) |
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Includes original design drawings for NAACP membership campaign posters;
camera-ready materials for a Christmas seal ad; and posters for NAACP
anniversary dances, membership drives, "wartime" conferences, and voter
registration campaigns designed by Louise Jefferson and Elton Fax. Photographs
reproduced from a 1943 promotional film entitled On Guard show NAACP staff members Ella Baker, William Hastie, Thurgood
Marshall, E. Frederic Morrow, Mary White Ovington, and Roy Wilkins. A series of
cyanotype prints for a publication entitled "The Negro in America" includes
portraits of prominent African American authors, entertainers, and sports
figures, educators, and social leaders, including Marian Anderson, Mary McLeod
Bethune, Ralphe Bunche, Alain Locke, Joe Louis, and Jackie Robinson. 51
photographic prints; 13 prints; 10 design drawings. Organized into four subject
categories: Camera-ready mock-ups; film stills from the motion picture On Guard; Miscellaneous publications and fliers; Oversize design drawings and
posters. |
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Camera-ready mock- ups |
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Call No.: LOT 13084, nos. 1-4 (F) |
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Film stills from the motion picture On Guard (nos. 23-29 are in color) |
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Call No.: LOT 13084, nos. 5-29 (F) |
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Miscellaneous publications and fliers (nos. 30-32 are in
color) |
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Call No.: LOT 13084, nos. 30-33Z (F) |
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Oversize design drawings and posters (nos. 37-46 are in
color) |
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Call No.: LOT 13084, nos. 34-46 (H) |
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GENERAL PROGRAMS AND RELATED SUBJECTS, 1916-1966
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Primarily photographs documenting segregation and other discriminatory practices
that the organization protested in its attempt to achieve political and social
equality. Civil rights campaigns, legislative, and legal programs. Includes
branches involvement in demonstrations at the local level. Photographs of lobbying
activities, marches, assemblies, and rallies organized by the NAACP and other
organizations in support of civil rights legislation. Also documents general
living and non-military working conditions of African Americans. |
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Farmers, Migrant Agricultural Workers, and Sharecroppers,
1939-1958.
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Call No.: LOT 13085 (F) |
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Primarily portraits of sharecroppers, migrant agricultural workers, and farmers
in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and
Haiti--some by Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers Jack Delano,
Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, and Marion Post Wolcott. Includes U.S.
Department of Agriculture and Agricultural Adjustment Agency photos of
extension services for farmers and photos of food production, distribution, and
conservation, during World War II. Several photos of Southern University, La.,
"Victory Farm Program" show students farming on the university campus. One
photo of Mrs. Harold Ickes giving a tour to a group of Japanese Americans on
her farm near Olney, Md. 39 photographic prints; 3 photomechanical prints.
Organized into three subject categories: Department of Agriculture war effort;
Farmers, migrant workers, and sharecroppers; Miscellaneous. |
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Department of Agriculture war effort |
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Call No.: LOT 13085, nos. 1-9 (F) |
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Farmers, migrant workers, and sharecroppers |
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Call No.: LOT 13085, nos. 10-34 (F) |
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Miscellaneous |
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Call No.: LOT 13085, nos. 35-41 (F) |
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Defendants in Criminal Cases and NAACP Attorneys,
1928-1949.
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Call No.: LOT 13086 (F) |
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Portrait of a juvenile defendant in the Bell-Swain case; group portrait of the
attorneys in the George Crawford case; defendant Jess Hollins with NAACP
attorney Cecil Robertson; one photo of Juanita Jackson Mitchell visiting the
Scottsboro defendants in jail; defendant W.D. Lyons; eight photos of NAACP
clients Lawrence Mitchell, Richard Philip Adams, and John Walter Bordinane,
soldiers convicted in a rape case, shown in military uniform and in prison
dress; one photo of the principals involved in a slavery charge; defendants in
the Columbia, Tenn., riot case with NAACP attorneys and the Nashville, Tenn.,
branch president M.G. Ferguson; one photo of the three defendants in the
Groveland, Fla., rape case: Walter Irvin, Charles Greenlee, and Samuel
Shepherd. Prominent NAACP staff and attorneys represented include Charles
Houston, Z. Alexander Looby, and Walter White. 17 photographic prints; 3
photomechanical prints. Organized chronologically. |
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Defendants and their counsel |
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Call No.: LOT 13086, nos. 1-20 (F) |
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Public Signs Expressing Jim Crow Policies and Other
Derogatory Sentiments, 1943- ca. 1960.
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Call No.: LOT 13087 (F) |
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Includes two snapshots of a roadside advertisement in Vinita, Okla., reading
"Eat nigger chicken" that were sent to the NAACP by J. Richardson Jones along
with a letter explaining why the photos were taken; two photos of various
discriminatory signs in a trash can, one photo with a letter 'X' painted across
the image. One photo of a soft drink dispenser for white customers only. 4
photographic prints; 2 prints. |
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Discriminatory signs, interior and exterior |
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Call No.: LOT 13087, nos. 1-6 (F) |
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Schools and Activities to Eliminate Segregation in Public
Education at the College and Secondary Levels, 1921-1961, bulk
1942-1957.
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Call No.: LOT 13088 (F) (H) |
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Emphasis is on buildings, facilities, and students at African American schools,
colleges, and universities. Lincoln University, Wayne State, and Wilberforce
are represented. Includes photos comparing schools for African Americans with
those for whites and group portraits of graduating classes; some photos of
defendants in school and college desegregation cases, including Donald Gaines
Murray (University of Maryland), Autherine Lucy (University of Alabama), Henry
Doyle and Heman Sweatt (University of Texas), Ada Lois Sipuel and G.W. McLaurin
(University of Oklahoma); some photos show civil disturbances at schools
attempting integration in the late 1950s, including some of Central High
School, Little Rock, Ark.; one photo shows Daisy Bates with the "Little Rock
Nine." Includes NAACP youth protesting segregation at Texas State University,
and college students marching in support of the Austin-Mahoney Bill. One photo
of Billie Holiday with school children from Merriam, Kans. NAACP staff depicted
include Daisy Bates, Oliver Hill, Ruby Hurley, and Thurgood Marshall. Includes
several photos of Carl Van Vechten and Georgia O'Keeffe on the campus of Fisk
University. 222 photographic prints; 23 photomechanical prints. Organized into
eight subject categories: Desegregation cases; Integrated schools and colleges;
Protest, secondary and college; African American schools; White schools and
students; Unidentified school buildings; Universities and colleges;
Miscellaneous. Arranged chronologically or alphabetically within each
category. |
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Desegregation cases |
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College, 1938-1948 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 1-10 (F) |
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Autherine Lucy, 1956 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 11-16 (F) |
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Secondary, 1943-ca. 1960 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 17-40 (F) |
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Integrated schools and colleges, 1948-1957 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 41-52 (F) |
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Protest, secondary and college, 1939-1961 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 53-74 (F) |
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African American schools, 1921-ca. 1950 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 75-117 (F) |
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White schools and students, ca. 1940-ca. 1950 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 118-121 (F) |
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Unidentified school buildings |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 122-128 (F) |
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Universities and colleges |
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American University, Washington, D.C. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 129-131 (F) |
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Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, no. 132 (F) |
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Baylor University, Waco, Tex. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 133-134 (F) |
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Bowie State College, Bowie, Md. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 135-136 (F) |
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Clark College, Atlanta, Ga. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 137-138 (F) |
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Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 139-147 (F) |
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Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, Fla. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, no. 148 (F) |
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Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 149-150 (F) |
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Lane College, Jackson, Tenn. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 151 (F) |
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Lincoln University, Lincoln University, Pa. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 152-161 (F) |
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Maryland State College, Princes Anne, Md. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 162-164 (F) |
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Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, no. 165 (F) |
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University of Maryland, College Park, Md. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 166-168 (F) |
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Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. (no. 169, no. 171,
and no. 172 are in color) |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 169-176 (F) |
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Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 177-178 (F) |
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Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 179-187 (F) |
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West Virginia State College, Institute, W.Va. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 188-189 (F) |
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Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 190-211 (F) |
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Miscellaneous |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 212-229 (F) |
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African Americans in Business, Government, Public
Service, and Labor, 1938-1964, bulk 1940-1948.
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Call No.: LOT 13089 (F) |
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Photos show African American workers posed for group portraits, receiving
awards, and in work related activities. Occupations represented include nurses,
doctors, laborers, clerks, and retail management trainees. Includes Fair
Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) photos documenting integration of
African Americans into the work force; National Youth Administration photos
show youth learning various trades; many publicity photos of scientists and
administrators employed by the Department of Agriculture; some photos of
tobacco workers striking; a few photos of workers in San Francisco, Calif., and
Pontiac, Mich., protesting employment discrimination. NAACP staff represented
in a few photos: Clarence Mitchell, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins. 95
photographic prints; 1 print. Organized into eight subject categories: African
Americans employed at the Department of Agriculture; African Americans in
professional occupations; Discrimination; Fair Employment Practices Commission
(FEPC); Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) in New York, N.Y.; National
Youth Administration, vocational training program; Protests; Strikes. |
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African Americans employed at the Department of Agriculture, ca.
1940-ca. 1950 |
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Call No.: LOT 13089, nos. 1-18 (F) |
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African Americans in professional occupations |
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ca. 1943-1950 |
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Call No.: LOT 13089, nos. 19-48 (F) |
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CCNY Mid-town Business Center |
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Call No.: LOT 13089, nos. 49-54 (F) |
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Discrimination, 1946-1947 |
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Call No.: LOT 13089, nos. 55-57 (F) |
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Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) |
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Call No.: LOT 13089, nos. 58-65 (F) |
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Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) in New York,
N.Y. |
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Call No.: LOT 13089, nos. 66-72 (F) |
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National Youth Administration, vocational training
program |
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Call No.: LOT 13089, nos. 73-80 (F) |
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Protests |
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Call No.: LOT 13089, nos. 81-89 (F) |
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Strikes |
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Call No.: LOT 13089, nos. 90-95 (F) |
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Health Services and Public Health Facilities Available to
African Americans, 1946- ca. 1950.
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Call No.: LOT 13090 (F) |
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Includes photos of tuberculosis screening at a Harlem Health Center; photos and
text about a proposed public health and rehabilitation center dedicated as a
living war memorial; fundraising activities for Sydenham Hospital in New York,
a proposed "interracial volunteer hospital." Includes one photo of a child with
sores or scars on her face and a one photo of assembly workers in a
pharmaceutical plant. 15 photographic prints; 3 photomechanical prints.
Organized into three subject categories: General; Hall of Health, War, and
Peace; Sydenham Hospital. |
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General, 1948-ca. 1950 |
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Call No.: LOT 13090, nos. 1-7 (F) |
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Hall of Health, War, and Peace |
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Call No.: LOT 13090, nos. 8-14A (F) |
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Sydenham Hospital |
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Call No.: LOT 13090, nos. 15-20 (F) |
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Urban and Rural Housing for African Americans, ca.
1911-1960.
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