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Crossing the Barriers: The Autobiography of Allan H. Spear
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Product Description: Allan Spear had a long and distinguished career as a historian and as a Minnesota state senator. Perhaps best known for coming out as openly gay during his first term in the Minnesota Senate-becoming one of the first elected officials in the nation to do so-Spear was also a leader of Eugene McCarthy's run for the presidency, an organizer against the war in Vietnam, and a key proponent for the establishment of the African-American studies department at the University of Minnesota...read more
By Barney Frank (foreword by), John Milton (other contributor) and Allan H. Spear
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9780816670406 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 2010, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Allan Spear had a long and distinguished career as a historian and as a Minnesota state senator.

The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s
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Gay life and culture in Minnesota at the wake of World War II is brilliantly chronicled in this vivid, intimate, and sometimes shocking memoir by a lifelong journalist. Reprint. (Social Science)
By Ricardo J. Brown, William Reichard (editor) and Allan H. Spear (foreword by)
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9780816636211 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: It is often difficult to imagine gay gathering places in the decades before the Stonewall riots of the 1960s, and nearly impossible to think of such communities outside the nation's largest cities.

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9780816636228 | Reprint edition (Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Gay life and culture in Minnesota at the wake of World War II is brilliantly chronicled in this vivid, intimate, and sometimes shocking memoir by a lifelong journalist.

Black Chicago the Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920
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Product Description: Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid patter of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination. This is the first historical study of the ghetto made famous by the sociological classics of St...read more
By Allan H. Spear
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9780226768571 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1969, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid patter of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination.

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