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The petitioners : the story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro by Loren Miller
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks KF 4757 .M5
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Loren.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 461 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, 1966.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. What has been, has been. The least noise
- How firm a foundation
- An agreement with hell
- A long way from home
- The summer is ended
- pt. 2. An uncertain sound. Let my people go!
- Less than true
- Hinder the wind
- No hiding place
- The law is good
- Instruments of wrong
- pt. 3. Through a glass, darkly. Come in at the gate
- No yards to measure
- There came darkness
- The ruling passion
- His castle and fortress
- Taken at the flood
- pt. 4. The welcome table. The winter is past
- Can these bones lie?
- Tumbling walls
- Old ark's a-moverin'
- A giant's strength
- Wait a little while
- That great getting' up morning
- The house of the hanged
- None so blind
- Tall like free men
- A wind gone down
- Bright before us.
- Notes:
- Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [435]-455).
- Local Notes:
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection
- Other Format:
- Online version: Miller, Loren. Petitioners.
- OCLC:
- 224184
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