New York: Published at the College of the City of New York by the Class of 1905, with the Co-Operation of Clionix and the Orchestra, 1905.
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Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 72pp. Illustrated from drawings and photographs. Paper over the hinges reinforced, light loss at the spine ends, soiling and smudging on the boards, about very good. Yearbook of College of the City of New York, the oldest public college in New York. Signed by the President John Huston Finley, and many of the students. A relatively small class of about 80 students, and despite the fact that the vast majority of the class were Jewish, with a few Irish thrown in, the Class of 1905 also graduated Gerald F. Norman, the first African-American to teach in a public high school in the State of New York. A correspondent of W.E.B. DuBois, Norman was also the founder of the American Tennis Association, formed as an alternative to the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association which barred blacks. He was also instrumental in shepherding the young Althea Gibson into previously segregated tournaments. Norman is among the students who signed the book, and he is pictured in the class picture.
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