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Clear All Subject Africans American--Civil rights State New York Medium texts (document genres)

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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History : the collection

Description:: Documents and realia from the collections of the Gilder Lehrman Institute documenting African Americans from the discovery of America through the Civil Rights movement.
Date of Original:: 1493/2002
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History