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Title The black Calhouns : from Civil War to civil rights with one African American family / Gail Lumet Buckley.
Author Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937- author.
Publication Info. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2016]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B CALHOUN    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text rdacontent.
unmediated rdamedia.
volume rdacarrier.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index.
Summary The daughter of actress Lena Horne traces the lives of her family between two major human rights periods in America, sharing the stories of the branches of her family that lived in the North and South, and their experiences during the Jim Crow and wartime eras.
Subject Calhoun family.
Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937- -- Family.
African Americans -- Georgia -- Biography.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
African American families -- Georgia -- History.
African American families -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
ISBN 0802124542 (hardcover) : $26.00
9780802124548 (hardcover)
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