Africans and their descendants constituted the majority of the population of the Americas for most of the first three hundred years. Yet their fundamental roles in the creation and definition of the new societies of the Onew world, O and their significance in the development of the Atlantic world, h
To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression (African American History Series)
โ Scribed by Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
- Year
- 2009
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- English
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- Library
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