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People, Place, and Region

Race, Space, and Electric Power: Jim Crow and the 1934 North Carolina Rural Electrification Survey

Pages 909-931 | Received 01 May 2015, Accepted 01 Jan 2016, Published online: 08 Apr 2016

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