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Who’s Who In Colored America, final edition, 1950
Who’s Who In Colored America, final edition, 1950
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Heading: (1950 Who’s Who In Colored America, final edition)
Author: Fleming, G. James and Christian Burckel
Title: Who’s Who In Colored America/ an Illustrated Biographical Directory of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in the United States
Place Published: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY
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Date Published: 1950
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7th (and last) Edition. Original cloth binding. Illustrated with photographs.648pp.Ex-library copy.



Black counterpart to the standard Who's Who in America, first issued in 1927. This last issue, published on the eve of the modern Civil Rights movement, includes many future notables (Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Ralph Metcalfe, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.) but also has a few striking omissions - like Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Shelf number on spine, label removed from front cover, first flyleaf removed, and some small rubberstamps.
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