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WWII SCRAP DRIVES, CATHER'S IMMIGRANTS, RACIAL VIOLENCE IN GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

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From: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Date: 20070516
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln issued the following news release:

In the spring issue of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Quarterly, researchers wrote about the development and promotion of WWII scrap drives, Willa Cather's view of immigrants in "O Pioneers!", and the Afro-American Council's struggle against racial violence in the late 19th to early 20th centuries.

In his article, "The Militarization of the Prairie: Scrap Drives, Metaphors, and the Omaha World-Herald's 1942 'Nebraska Plan'," Seton Hall University professor James J. Kimble wrote about the WWII scrap drive ...

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