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Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist. Race and Culture in the American West Series. By Amina Hassan. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. xv. + 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95.) Amina Hassan presents us with an excellent synthesis of African American History and the history of the West in her biography of Loren Miller. Miller’s origins were both humble and revolutionary. Miller’s father, John Bird Miller, was born a slave and after the Civil War found work as a laborer on the Union Pacific near Leavenworth, Kansas. There he met Nora Herbaugh, a white woman and normal school teacher. The two married in 1900 Iowa and quickly moved to Perder, Nebraska. There, Loren was born in 1903. Despite poverty and racial prejudice, young Miller graduated from high school, and attended … lfoster{at}pomona.edu
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