Regional Blocs, Regional Planning, and the Blues Epistemology in the Lower Mississippi Delta

Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 78-99

  Woods, Clyde ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b history of African Americans   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/jj.2711574.8     Document Type: Chapter

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