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Oacar De Priest Hand, Sr.

Born: 1932 in Belmont, North Carolina
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Oscar receivedhis BA from Northwestern University in Chicago and his MA from Governors state University.

Biography: With his co-author, Elaine Roberts, they have bi-annual magazines honoring un-sung heroes; they do fact tours and make global dvd's for children. As authors they write African Americans History books to express how our people lived under stress, hardship, lynching and humility.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Email: teaching@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.literarygems.org
Oacar De Priest Hand, Sr. on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=oacar+de+priest+hand%2C+sr.


Selected Titles

Footprints on the rough side of the mountain :
ISBN: 0965615502 OCLC: 36725658

Hand and Sykes Concepts, [Belmont, N.C.] : ©1997.

 

 

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