"The place to go": The 135th street branch library and the Harlem renaissance

Library Quarterly

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 383-421

  Anderson, Sarah A ^a  

^a NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 2442664180     PISSN: 00242519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/603439     Document Type: Review

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