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It's All Right If It's Not White: Recent Books on the History of Black Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Raymond Wolters*
Affiliation:
University of Delware

Abstract

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Essay Review II
Copyright
Copyright © 1980 by History of Education Society 

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