Black Texas women : 150 years of trial and triumph

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Black Texas women : 150 years of trial and triumph

1995

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33162753

This book is very much needed because of the scarcity of material on black women's history in Texas, or black women's history in general.

426 pages

eng, Latn

University of Texas at Austin.

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