Search Results: African American Studies from Little Sages Books, ABAA

Lawrenceville, Virginia : Brunswick Publishing Company, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good . African poetry with a forward by Sulayman S. Nyang, Director of African Studies at Howard University. Cover glossy, gentle creasing to rear corner, spine uncreased.

Piney Woods, Mississippi: Piney Woods School, 1950. First Edition. Letter. Very good. 9 x 12" flyer, with b/w photographs of graduates, boy scouts and 4-H group. Fold lines, likely an enclosure. Flyer signed, "In the Joy of Spraying A Human Orchard, Lawrence C. Jones". "We have no 'sob stuff' or 'ism', other than unadulterated Americanism... In our human factory, we manufacture AMERICANS." The school was started at the turn of the century by a black educator, Lawrence C. Jones, to provide basic education for the children of field hands. In 1929, with the arrival of Martha Louise Morrow Foxx serving as principal, the Mississippi Blind School for Negroes was founded at Piney Woods. Still running today, more than a century later, most of the today's pupils are from poor, single-parent homes, many come from the 'toughest neighborhoods in the country', according to one of two 60 Minute specials on the school. The Piney Woods Country Life School… Read More

Chicago: The Faithhorn Company , 1910 . First Edition. Leaflet. Very good. A plea for support of the mission as 'truest patriotism', with requests for gifts from members of the United Presbyterian Church. Calls to action regarding increased salaries for both "colored" and "white" men, changes to War Emergency Fund proposals, building and expenditure planning. " The colored teachers in the missions, graduates of college and normal courses, have been paid as low as $30 a month. The white teachers at Knoxville and Chase City are working for salaries far below what they could command elsewhere.. "

Washington DC: Howard University , 1964. Staplebound. Good. 36p stapled magazine, in this issue: the selection of Queens; Professor Fitzhugh explores the 'Negro Market'; President Wright of Fisk University relays problems in recruiting, developing, maintaining faculty members - the third installment in a series on 'The Negro College'; twenty years after the ASTP Engineers left Howard. Cover pictures, the Seven 63-64 Queens with profiles and their career plans. Cover separating at hinge, attached by small area below lowest staple.