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  • Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the Schooner Amistad

    Date
    1841
  • Field Workers, (painting)

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    Ca. 1948-1951
  • Soul searching : Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the rise of blaxploitation / Christopher Sieving

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    2011
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    20th century
  • Lester Young memorial album, / vol. I sound recording

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    196x
  • Urban Holiness Service: Elder Charles Beck- WABW Radio Show, tape B sound recording

  • Time is Running Out, Broadside, No. 5 sound recording

  • The Negro Nurse, (painting)

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    1876
  • Taking the time : young writers and old stories / edited by Foster Dickson with ... Kevin Garner and Kali Pyrlik ; with writings by creative writing students at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School, Montgomery, Alabama

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    2005
  • The measure of our success : a letter to my children and yours / Marian Wright Edelman

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    1992
    C1992
  • Negresse, (painting)

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