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Historic Michigan African American Book Digitally Available

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A new Michigan history resource is now available from Western Michigan University Libraries in an Internet digital version for anyone to use. ‘Michigan Manual of Freedmen’s Progress’ book, 1915 edition has been fully digitized including photographs, charts, and searchable text and is available as pdf files.

Marion Gray, WMU History Department Chair comments, ”We are extremely pleased to have this unique primary source available for our students to use. It is also wonderful that, thanks to Western’s Digitization Center, we can make such a resource available to students and scholars virtually anywhere in the world.”

The book is a 371 page item containing accomplishments of Michigan African Americans through 1915. Optical character recognition (OCR) technology was used for capturing the text for searchability. Two digital versions of the book are presented; a large file of 8.7 MB, and a file without photos of 2.3 MB size for options in downloading.

Links to the item are available through the WMU Libraries Catalog, WestCat; Link [1], and Digitization Center at WMU Libraries website. Link [2]

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