Simms' blue book and national Negro business and professional directory - NYPL Digital Collections

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Simms' blue book and national Negro business and professional directory

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This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

Collection Data

Names: Simms, James Nelson (Compiler)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1923; Place: Chicago, Ill.; Publisher: J.N. Simms
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division; Shelf locator: Sc 650.58-S (Simms, J. Simms' blue book)
Topics: African Americans; African American businesspeople
Genres: Photographs; Portraits; Illustrations
Type of Resource: Still image; Text
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12033770; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5cdea6a0-c6d1-012f-4292-58d385a7bc34

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