A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas

Houston, Texas: A.W. Jackson, [circa 1940].

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Hardcover. First edition. Preface by Sanderson Alexander Pleasants, Jr. Biographical Sketch of the Author by Albert Anderson Lucas. Octavo. Vi, 772, [4]pp. Illustrated from photographs. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Parts of the following leaves are torn away: front fly, p. i-ii (an index page) with some significant loss and p. 5-6 (prefatory matter) with significant loss; a few other pages have tears and/or minor loss, but are otherwise sound and good.

Extensive biographical compilation of perhaps 200 prominent black Texans, most with grainy photographic portraits, interspersed with hints to success and a fair amount of poetry, some or most of it obviously written by African-Americans (although some of it is author unidentified). According to the biography of the author, Andrew Webster Jackson, was born in Booth in Fort Bend County, Texas, completed school and became a teacher and later a school principal. In 1930 he was elected president of the Colored Teachers' State Association, and other important civic positions, and helped form the Fort Bend Fraternal Undertaking Company.

A very cheaply produced and highly eccentric publication, in *OCLC* we could locate copies each with either 644pp. or 960pp., but no copies with anything closer to this pagination. Rare.


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Item #423829 A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas. A. W. JACKSON.
A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas