Hampton, [Virginia]: Hampton Institute, 1893.
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Unbound. First edition. A single leaf folded to make four pages. Slightly misfolded, a little age-toning, tiny crease at one corner, near fine. Five poems or songs, three of them by Sara A. Collins, the other two by H.W. Ludlow and A.H. McNeal respectively, prepared to be sung at the Alumni Reunion in 1893. Two of the songs by Collins (“Our Chief” and “Song for Reunion, ‘93”) are about the illness and death of General Samuel Armstrong, the President of the College. Sara A. Collins, a teacher who graduated from Hampton in 1882 and earned a Master’s Degree in social work from NYU, is best known for founding the first black social settlement house, The Colored Social Settlement in Washington, DC., where she also started a day care center, school, and public library. She later founded another house in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Still later, she was employed as the first Black social worker at the Baltimore Health Department. She contributed poems to *The Southern Workman* between 1891 and 1937, and published two volumes of verse in 1925, *Poems* and *Vision*. Rare. *OCLC* locates no copies.
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