Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917–1950
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American Brotherhood
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عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Iowa
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0003-4827,2473-9006
DOI: 10.17077/0003-4827.12158