National Freedom Day at SSU

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"The Presidential and Congressional Documents on the First African-American National Holiday: National Freedom Day"

Walton, H., Jordan, K., Kadalie, M. Stewart, M. & Green, Roosevelt. (2001). The presidential and congressional documents on the first African-American national holiday: National Freedom Day. The Journal Of Negro History, 86(3), 348-371. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1562452

"R. R. Wright, Congress, President Truman and the First National Public African-American Holiday: National Freedom Day"

Walton, H., Green, R., Johnson, W. E., Jordan, K., McLemore, L. B., Gray, C. V., & Orr, M. (1991). R. R. Wright, Congress, President Truman and the First National Public African-American Holiday: National Freedom Day. PS: Political Science And Politics, 24(4), 685. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/419405

“Richard R. Wright and the National Negro Bankers Association: Early Organization Efforts Among Black Bankers, 1924- 1942"

Henderson, A. B. (1993). Richard R. Wright and the National Negro Bankers Association: Early organization efforts among black bankers, 1924- 1942. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 117(1/2), 51-81. Retrieved from https://www.nosue.org/app/download/7242609171

"And the Truth Shall Make You Free": Richard Robert Wright, Sr., Black Intellectual and Iconoclast, 1877-1897"

Patton, J. O. (1996). `And the truth shall make you free': Richard Robert Wright, Sr., black intellectual and iconoclas. Journal of Negro History, 81(1), 17-30. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2717605

"A Beacon to Oppressed Peoples Everywhere": Major Richard R. Wright Sr., National Freedom Day, and the Rhetoric of Freedom in the 1940s"

Mitch, K. (2004). "A Beacon to Oppressed Peoples Everywhere": Major Richard R. Wright Sr., National Freedom Day, and the rhetoric of freedom in the 1940s. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History And Biography, 128(3), 279-306. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20093723

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