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Excerpt from “Letters of Negro Migrants of 1916-1918”
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Excerpt from “Letters of Negro Migrants of 1916-1918”
The Journal of Negro History via The Internet Archive.
A letter to the Editor of the Black newspaper, the Chicago Defender, 1917.
Source: The Journal of Negro History, Internet Archive.
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