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"Fearful of violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry. Johnson searched her father's black genealogy and then was amazed to suddenly realize that her mother's whole white side was missing in family history. Johnson went searching for the white family who did not know she existed. When she found them, it's not just their shock and her mother's shame...
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With a poet's gifted ear, a novelist's sense of narrative, and a journalist's unsentimental eye, Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe--to stay alive--in their community, a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and governmental neglect. Survival Math is both a personal...
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Harvard studies in business history volume III
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1937
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English
19) The history of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and their ancestors and descendants
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Samuel Usher, Fort Hill Press
Pub. Date
1913
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English
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Heritage Bks., Inc
Pub. Date
1992
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English
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"This large work is primarily a male-line genealogy covering ten generations but there are some female lines, especially in the most recent generations. The work opens with a short chapter on the family in England, and closes with a short appendix on descendants of Daniel Gleason (b.1771) of Genesee County, New York, whose connection with the main family is unknown. The descendants of Thomas Gleason lived throughout the northeast and Midwest."-- from...
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