Maggie's American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family

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A hardback edition of Maggie’s American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family by James P. Comer, M. D. The book is paperboard bound with cloth spine tape. The front of the paper dust jacket features a large sepia tone photograph of James P. Comer’s parents, Maggie and Hugh Comer. Hugh is seated in a wooden chair on the right side of the photograph and Maggie stands next to him, on the left side. Her proper left hand is resting on her husband’s proper right shoulder. Hugh is wearing a dark, three-piece suit, a white tie, and a white dress shirt with a high collar. Maggie is wearing a light-colored skirt suit with a white blouse. She holds a small purse in her proper right hand. Her hair is side parted and arranged in an ear length bob. Both Hugh and Maggie are facing the viewers looking slightly downwards.

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