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Spingarn avidly amassed collections. One of them was of books, newspapers, and manuscripts on the black
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Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights
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He interrupted his legal career to serve for several years as a
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His other collections were sold at auction in 1966.
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338:(1950), co-authored with Jacob A. Goldberg
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423:. March 28, 1878. Archived from
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