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Excerpt from "Beale street: where the blues began"

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Lee, George Washington

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Outlining the efforts of Harry Pace and W. E. B. Du Bois to start a weekly magazine in 1905 similar to The Crisis. Details about Pace and the beginning of the magazine on Beale Street in New Orleans, how it was ahead of its time and what Pace did after it stopped publishing. Refers to pages 289-291.
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All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.Contact host institution for more information.
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  1. African Americans
  2. Blues (Music)

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