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Picturing black New Orleans : a Creole photographer's view of the early twentieth century
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ISBN: 9780813072906 Year: 2023 Publisher: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida,

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This book illuminatesthe fascinating story and visual legacy of Florestine Perrault Collins, whodocumented African American life in New Orleans between 1920 and 1949.


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There's always work at the post office : African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality
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ISBN: 0807833428 0807859869 1469604051 0807895733 9780807895733 9781469604053 9780807833421 9780807859865 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often are written as if they happened separately. Centered on New York City and Washington, D.C., the book chronicles a struggle of national significance through its examination of the post office, a workplace with facilities and unions serving every city and town in the United States. Black postal...

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