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Man of color, an autobiography. A factual report on the status of the American Negro today.

"In this autobiography, [the author] tells us the events of his life over the past fifty years. It is, too, a brief history of Los Angeles from the turn of the century--certainly, as far as the Negroes in Los Angeles are in the picture"--Preface. Jamaican-born Somerville became a Los Angel...

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Main Author: Somerville, J. Alexander 1882-
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : L.L. Morrison, [1949]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Series:The Publisher's library, no. 5
Subjects and Genres:
African Americans.
Civil rights > United States.
Activism > United States.
Dentists > Biography.
Autobiographies.
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