Challenging Containment: African Americans and Racial Politics in Montclair, New Jersey, 1920-1940

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  • Patricia Hampson Eget

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https://doi.org/10.14713/njh.v126i1.1101

Abstract

In 1930 Mary Elizabeth Bolden sent for her ten year old son, Theodore, from the rural Virginia farm where the family worked as sharecroppers. She had moved to Montclair the previous year with her sister, Ada, and brother in-law, James, and worked as a domestic servant to support herself. ...

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2011-10-26

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