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    12 million black voices; Black boy; Eight men...
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Richard J. Jensen

Born: 1941 in South Bend, Indiana
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Richard Jensen lived in Cook County Illinois from 1970 through 1997.

Biography: Richard is a retired History Professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): History

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Richard J. Jensen on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=richard+j.+jensen

Selected Titles

  Illinois :
ISBN: 0393055965 OCLC: 3414237

Norton, New York : ©1978.

Illinois :
ISBN: 0252070216 OCLC: 46769728

University of Illinois Press, Urbana : 2001.

 

 

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