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Staking a claim : Jake Simmons and the making of an African-American oil dynasty
Title:
Staking a claim : Jake Simmons and the making of an African-American oil dynasty
Author:
Greenberg, Jonathan D.
Personal Author:
Greenberg, Jonathan D.
Publication Information:
New York : Atheneum, 1990.
Physical Description:
311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Personal Subject:
Simmons, Jake, 1901-1981.
Subject Term:
African American businesspeople -- Biography.

Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History.

Petroleum industry and trade -- Africa, West -- History.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9780689117916
Format :
Book

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