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Half-Century Magazine

CTL-E-1111 · Publication · other · 1916–1925

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Anthony Overton's Black lifestyle magazine; predecessor to the Chicago Bee

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BPM-003, ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BPM-003:pub-halfcentury, CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-028; source research type(s): publication.

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Record CTL-E-1111 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 4 sources · CTL research: BPM-003, ECON-001.
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