TITLE

This Week In Black History

PUB. DATE
August 1999
SOURCE
Jet;08/23/99, Vol. 96 Issue 12, p19
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Presents black history news for August 17, 1880, August 21, 1904, and August 25, 1908.
ACCESSION #
2169580

Tags: BLACKS -- History

 

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