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[2022]
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xiv, 177 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
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English
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This book examines the life and career of Robert R. Church Jr. who grew up the son of the first black millionaire in Memphis, Tennessee, and would eventually surpass his father's notoriety as the most influential black Republican of his era. In particular this book uses Church's life as a lens into the political activity of African Americans during the first half of the twentieth century.
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"The story of Blue Jenkins, an African American who grew up in Depression-era Racine. Blue experienced, both personally and as a part of the black community near Milwaukee, the exodus of former farm laborers from the South seeking jobs in Northern manufacturing. He attended pre-civil rights movement public schools, and experienced racism: the Ku Klux Klan hung a black figure in effigy from a tree in the Jenkins family's yard. Jenkins played semi-pro...
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