@article{435232,
      author = {Joens, David A.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/435232},
      title = {From slave to state legislator : John W. E. Thomas,  Illinois' first African American lawmaker /},
      publisher = {Southern Illinois University Press,},
      recid = {435232},
      pages = {xii, 256 p., [18] p. of plates :},
      address = {Carbondale :},
      year = {2012},
}