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Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh Edited by Lawrence A. Glasco University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004 (cloth, 422 pages, $39.95) The story of Pittsburgh’s African Americans is deeply intertwined with that of other ethnic groups, yet in many ways it is unique. Before the Civil War, Pittsburgh’s rivers and proximity to the Mason-Dixon Line made it a critical junction on the...read more