Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. Wriiten and compiled Hallie Q. Brown. Small octavo. 96pp. Illustrated with photographs and drawings "from any different sorces". Green cloth stamped and illustrated in gilt. Author's facsimile autograph stamped on front pastedown (as with the only copies we've seen), dampstain along the foredge causing a faint tidemark and some wrinkling, along the edges of the leaves, spine gilt just a little rubbed, a sound and presentable, good or better copy. An account of the history of the College, with biographical accounts of the founders, early teachers and patrons. Hallie Q. Brown, an African-American educator and activist was born in Pittsburgh, the daughter of formerly enslaved parents. She studied at Wilberforce University, taught in South Carolina and Mississippi, was principal of Tuskegee Institute (1892-3), and was later a professor at Wilberforce. She was a founder of the Colored Woman's League of Washington, DC and president of The National Association of Colored Women of America and Canada. An uncommon title.

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