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A Nickel and A Prayer
by Jane Edna Hunter
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
[Nashville: Parthenon Press / Eli Kani Publishing Co.] (1940). Octavo. Frontispiece, 211 pages. Second printing. Publisher's cloth in a lightly chipped and spine-sunned dustwrapper. A near fine copy.
Autobiography of this nurse and lawyer noted for her commitment to help Black American women.
A South Carolinian-native born to sharecropper parents, Jane Edna Hunter (1892-1971) trained in Charleston to be a nurse and later at the Hampton Institute in Virginia. Afterwards, "she moved to Cleveland, Ohio to seek employment and felt firsthand the difficulties of an African American woman in a large city. With the help of friends she founded the Working Girls' Home Association where unemployed women could find shelter, resources, and education. By 1912 the home was expanded and known as the Phillis Wheatley Association. In 1925 Jane passed the Ohio bar examination having graduated from Baldwin-Wallace Law School in Cleveland. Her autobiography... tells of her struggles." (Bagby, Ellen. African American Women In Education accessed online).
Hunter was nominated for the NAACP's Spingarn Award and receiving honorary degrees from Tuskegee Institute and Wilberforce College.
Brignano (rev) 185. This copy was kept by Edith V. Sherman who we identify as being a member the Altrusa Club of Akron (i.e., Altrusa, Altrusa International), a benevolent society, founded in 1917, and focused on community service.
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- Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3730339
- Title
- A Nickel and A Prayer
- Author
- Jane Edna Hunter
- Book Condition
- Used
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About the Seller
Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
Biblio member since 2020
Wilmington, Delaware
About Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
Established in 1995, Ian Brabner, Rare Americana buys and sells rare books and manuscripts covering diverse facets of American history.
Our inventory encompasses a broad spectrum of collecting interests, with a special focus on 18th- and 19th-century American history, including African-American history, women's history, and unique or unusual materials documenting the American experience. In our stock, you will also find rare pamphlets, documents, letters and correspondence, journals, diaries, significant archives, as well as original art, graphics, and photographs.
Our inventory encompasses a broad spectrum of collecting interests, with a special focus on 18th- and 19th-century American history, including African-American history, women's history, and unique or unusual materials documenting the American experience. In our stock, you will also find rare pamphlets, documents, letters and correspondence, journals, diaries, significant archives, as well as original art, graphics, and photographs.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
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