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1904 - Monroe Nathan Work marries Florence Evelyn Hendrickson.

With the support of his wife, Work went on to publish The Negro Year Book, an annual encyclopedia of African American achievement. In 1928, he published A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America, compiling over 17,000 entries—an invaluable resource in the study of Black history.

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