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Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941


Author: John Claborn
Source: Directory of Open Access Books
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781350009455
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Explores how African-American writers in the early 20th century - including Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois and Effie Lee Newsome - grappled with environmental crisis in the context of the civil rights movement.