[Broadsheet]: Death Only A Dream [and] I Do, Don't You?

[Nashville, Tennessee? The Author? circa 1910?].

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Unbound. Broadsheet printed both sides with photographic portrait of Crooks. Approximately 5.5" x 10.5". Short tears at the edges of the old folds, a trifle age-toned, very good. The first song is three verses and a chorus, on the verso are four verses, each for a hymn by a reverend of the Colored Methodist Church. In Bishop Charles Phillips' *The History of the Colored Methodist Church*, he mentions presiding at the wedding of Crooks to his first wife in Nashville in 1913. In 1918 he married a woman from Virginia, and in 1921 he moved to Cleveland. Apparently ephemera from the Colored Methodist Church is much less common than material from the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. Rare. Unlocated by *OCLC*. Not in *French. Afro-American Poetry, Catalogue of the Blockson Collection*.

Item #389802

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Item #389802 [Broadsheet]: Death Only A Dream [and] I Do, Don't You? Rev. J. H. CROOKS, arranger.