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"Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life" Cover Art
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Front cover of "Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life" showing an illustration of a woman in an evening dress with her cheek resting on her shoulder, and people dancing in the background.
July 1926
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WHi 4372
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