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On december 15, 1911, prior to faculty approval, alpha chapter, the mother pearl, was established at howard university with fourteen charter members. Mother of pearl is a luminous novel of the 1950s south that intermingles race and racism, degeneracy and prejudice, magic and love. Haynes creates a tapestry of life, love and family that, while. John steinbeck in the town they tell the story of the great pearl how it was found and how it was lost again.
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