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Southern Education in Review: Opportunity for New Historical Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Bertram Wyatt-Brown*
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University of Florida
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 25 , Issue 1-2 , Spring-Summer 1985 , pp. 195 - 201
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Copyright © 1985 by History of Education Society 

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