Twenty-Five Years History of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, 1881-1905

Richmond: (Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers), 1909.

Price: $2,000.00

Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 513pp. Red cloth titled and decorated in gilt. Frontispiece portrait photograph, heavily illustrated mostly with portraits, from photographs, woodcuts, and wood engravings. Tiny creases on a few consecutive leaves, a bit of rubbing at the foot, and spine lettering dull but readable, very good. The Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers (GFUOTR) was the most significant African-American mutual aid society in Richmond. Founded by William Washington Browne, the GFUOTR was chartered by the Good Templars, and evolved into a Black-owned and operated business empire, in its time the largest and most successful Black-owned association in the county. The mutual aid societies were of critical importance in the Black communities of the South after the Civil war, working with fraternal organizations and Black churches to created business networks for African-Americans who found themselves exiled outside the mainstream economy.

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Item #453079 Twenty-Five Years History of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, 1881-1905. W. P. BURRELL, D E. Johnson.
Twenty-Five Years History of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, 1881-1905
Twenty-Five Years History of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, 1881-1905
Twenty-Five Years History of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, 1881-1905
Twenty-Five Years History of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, 1881-1905
Twenty-Five Years History of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, 1881-1905