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They seek a city / Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy.

Author/creator Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973
Other author/creatorConroy, Jack, 1898-1990.
Format Book and Print
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoGarden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1945.
Descriptionxvii pages, 1 leaf, 266 pages ; 22 cm
Subject(s)
Partial contents Du Sable : Man of the midlands / J.B.P. Du Sable -- To the western passes / J. Beckwourth -- Toward the north star / W. Still -- John Brown's friend / J. Jones -- "Leave a summer land behind" / B. Singleton -- Across the river from slavery / P.B.S. Pinchback ; J.M. Trotter ; J.M. Langston ; R.S. Duncanson ; R. Gordon ; H. Boyd ; G.L. Davis ; W.P. Davney -- They met at the fair / F. Douglass ; W.M. Cook ; P.L. Dunbar ; I.B. Wells ; R.S. Abbot -- Darktown strutters / W.C. Handy ; S. Joplin ; R. Motts -- The invisible migration / P.C. Theodore ("Adah Isaacs Menken") -- Strangers / A.W. Springs -- Beloved and scattered millions / M. Garvey ; T. Drew (("Noble Drew Ali") ; W.D. Ford ; M.M.L. Gordon -- Calling the children home / F. Morton ("Jelly Roll") -- Trail of the whitetops / G.W. Bush ; W. Gross ; H.R. Cayton ; B. Mason ; E.L. Petty -- Karamu -- Detroit : Arsenal of democracy / M.L. Richards.
General noteAt head of title: Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy.
Bibliography note"A selected list of references and sources": pages 253-258 and index.
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016.
Issued in other formOnline version: Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973. They seek a city. 1st ed. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1945
Genre/formBiography.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 45035114

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Joyner Rare Collection E185.6 .B75 1945 ✔ Available Request Material