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"Abstraction from 'The Three They Didn't Hang'"

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Title

"Abstraction from 'The Three They Didn't Hang'"

Collection

Writers' Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection
History and Historical Questions, Numbers 1-72
Numbers 1-39

Names

Writers' Program (New York, N.Y.) (Creator)
United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.) (Sponsor)
Valda, Lila (Author)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1939-07-19

Library Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Micro R-6544

Subjects

African Americans
New York (N.Y.)
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Genres

Essays

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11928496
Archives ID: 21183
Archives EAD ID: 2057776
Archives Components ID: 1276913
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 51d7f360-55a5-0133-8bd6-00505686d14e

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. ""Abstraction from 'The Three They Didn't Hang'"" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/51d7f360-55a5-0133-8bd6-00505686d14e

APA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1939). "Abstraction from 'The Three They Didn't Hang'" Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/51d7f360-55a5-0133-8bd6-00505686d14e

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. ""Abstraction from 'The Three They Didn't Hang'"" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/51d7f360-55a5-0133-8bd6-00505686d14e

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