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Paperback Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond Book

ISBN: 023060871X

ISBN13: 9780230608719

Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond

(Part of the Palgrave Studies in Oral History Series)

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