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Des Moines: State Historical Society of Iowa, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by editor Bill Silag on the title page, and by 15 contributors at their chapter headings: Richard, Lord Acton, Patricia Nassif Acton, G. Galin Berrier, Leola Nelson Bergmann, Paul Bridgford, Jeremy J. Brigham, Hal S. Chase, Willis Goudy, Francis E. Hawthorne, Jack Lufkin, David R. McMahon, William S. Morris, Lynda C. Walker-Webster, Raymond Kelso Weikal, and Robert Wright, Sr. Additionally inscribed by Richard, Lord Acton and Patricia Nassif Action on the half-title. Landmark work on the African American experience in the Hawkeye State. "Each of the book's 20 chapters focuses on a particular aspect of that experience - legal and political rights, business and professional leadership, clubs and community organizations, churches and schools, and more - from Iowa's territorial days to the present. Hundreds of photographs (gathered from family albums and scrapbooks, as well as historical archives)…
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