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The Effects of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program on Riots and the Wealth of African Americans

Jamein P. Cunningham, Rob Gillezeau
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2018, 4 (6) 144-157; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.07
Jamein P. Cunningham
Assistant professor of economics in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis
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