Copyright © 2016 by Tavis Smiley
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Smiley, Tavis, date. editor.
Title: The Covenant with Black America - ten years later / compiled and
edited by Tavis Smiley.
Description: Carlsbad, California : Hay House, Inc., [2016]
Identifiers: LCCN 2015042597 | ISBN 9781401951498 (tradepaper : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: African Americans--Social conditions--1975- | African
Americans--Politics and government. | United States--Race relations. |
African American leadership.
Classification: LCC E185.86 .C58883 2016 | DDC 305.896/073--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015042597
Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-5149-8
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