Napierville Illinois: J.L. Nichols, (1902).
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Hardcover. Thick quarto. 472pp., frontispiece portrait of Culp, 100 additional portrait photographs. Brown cloth stamped in black. Front and rear flyleaves lacking, hinges a bit tender, a good copy of this bulky, poorly manufactured volume, which was sold by subscription. The binding was inadequate for the bulk of the text block, but this copy has remained largely intact.
A collection of thoughtful, and for its time, occasionally provocative essays by Black notables, each illustrated with a full-page photograph of it's author. Contributors include Alice Dunbar-Nelson ("Is It Time for the Negro Colleges in the South to be put into the Hands of Negro Teachers?"), Booker T. Washington, W.H. Crogman, Thomas T. Fortune, Bishop Hood, James Weldon Johnson (then the principal of a Florida grammar school), Kelly Miller, Mary Church Terrell, and many others. A fascinating volume and the photos alone make this a useful reference.
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