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It was copyrighted in 1911 by The Outlook Company, then issued in 1912 by Doubleday, Page and Co. in Garden City, New Jersey, and reprinted once, in 1984.
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- ↑ Bruce, Dickson D. (1995). "Booker T. Washington's "The Man Farthest Down" and the Transformation of Race". The Mississippi Quarterly . 48 (2): 239–253.
- ↑ Austin, Duke. "Park, Robert E. (1864–1944)". Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Sage.
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