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13 against the odds, by Edwin R. Embree
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E185.96.E4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Embree, Edwin Rogers, 1883-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 261 p. ports. 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Viking Press, 1944.
- Contents:
- Mary McLeod Bethune, Amazon of God.
- Richard Wright, native son.
- Charles S. Johnson, a scholar and a gentleman.
- Walter White, little David.
- George Washington Carver, sweet potato wizard.
- Langston Hughes, Shakespeare in Harlem.
- Marian Anderson, deep river of song.
- W.E.B. Du Bois, elder statesman.
- Mordecai W. Johnson, lord high chancellor.
- William Grant Still, music maker.
- A. Philip Randolph, Saint Philip of the Pullman porters.
- Joe Louis, champion of the world.
- Paul Robeson, voice of freedom.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- OCLC:
- 911837
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