Sacrifice, Opportunity, and the New South

Mildred W. Robinson;

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Sacrifice, Opportunity, and the New South

Mildred W. Robinson

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Vanderbilt University Press

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2009

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Mildred W. Robinson, Sacrifice, Opportunity, and the New South, in Mildred Wigfall Robinson & Richard J. Bonne Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education, Vanderbilt University Press, 107–113 (2009).

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