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- Brochure, "The South Comes North," 1948-1950 - The Committee for Cooperation with the New South sought to change the discriminatory and segregationist policies in the post-World War II South. With this brochure, the committee targeted Northerners to back their cause. Supporters were urged to donate a dollar or more to aid progressive Southerners who promoted voter registration, "Negro liberation" and the interests of sharecroppers.
- 1948-1950
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Brochure, "The South Comes North," 1948-1950
The Committee for Cooperation with the New South sought to change the discriminatory and segregationist policies in the post-World War II South. With this brochure, the committee targeted Northerners to back their cause. Supporters were urged to donate a dollar or more to aid progressive Southerners who promoted voter registration, "Negro liberation" and the interests of sharecroppers.
- Diary of a Young Man Journeying Westward across America to California, 1860-1862 -
- 1860-1862
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Diary of a Young Man Journeying Westward across America to California, 1860-1862
- Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1990 - Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a multi-genre writer and anthropologist who focused on the African diaspora in the American South and the Caribbean. Hurston incorporated both autobiographical elements and her anthropological fieldwork into her fiction; for example, <em>Jonah’s Gourd Vine</em> is set in Eatonville, Florida, one of the first self-governing, all-Black communities in the U.S. and Hurston's hometown.
- 1990
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Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1990
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a multi-genre writer and anthropologist who focused on the African diaspora in the American South and the Caribbean. Hurston incorporated both autobiographical elements and her anthropological fieldwork into her fiction; for example, Jonah’s Gourd Vine is set in Eatonville, Florida, one of the first self-governing, all-Black communities in the U.S. and Hurston's hometown.