Who's Who in Colored America. A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in America. 1930-1931-1932.
Thomas Yenser (edited by)
Verlag: Thomas Yenser, 1933
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499p. 4to. Brooklyn, New York. Publisher's faux green pebble grain leather cloth, gilt title on spine/front board, text illustrated with black/white photographs. Measures: 2 W x 8.25 D x 10.5 H inches. Weight: 4 pounds, 9 ounces. About the work: Who's Who in Colored America set forth biographical data concerning prominent persons of African descent who were living at the time of compilation and whose position or record of achievement made them of general interest. It was the publisher's aim to publish these editions every two years. CONDITION NOTES: Very good; light wear commensurate with age and use (e.g. slightly shaken, extremity edge wear, endpapers-lightly foxed), strong square spine/tight binding, clean light age-toned text/illustration pages. A very nice copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002906
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Titel: Who's Who in Colored America. A Biographical...
Verlag: Thomas Yenser
Erscheinungsdatum: 1933
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
Auflage: 3rd Edition
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Who's who in colored America: a biographical dictionary of notable living persons of African descent in America. 1930-1931-1932. . . .
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Thick 4to. 8.5 x 10.5 x 2 in. xiv, 499, [1] pp., plus 12 pp. publisher's ads for African-American colleges and publications, including State Normal School of North Carolina, Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona, FL, the National Urban League, and Monroe Works' Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America. With numerous photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine (minor rubbing, edgewear, rebacked w/ original spine laid back-down, very minor paper repairs to endpapers, minor tide-mark at fore-edges), still a Good copy. Third edition, stated, of this substantially revised and expanded reference work compiling the lives of notable African-Americans from 1927 through the end of 1932, containing the biographies of hundreds of professional Black men & women. Included here are teachers, professors, university presidents, social workers, bank executives, doctors, lawyers, merchants, artists, and more. Photos and biographies offer references ranging from a young Langston Hughes to W.E.B. DuBois, as well as Harlem Renaissance figures such as James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, Alain Locke, and others. Yenser (1869-1949) would continue to print and expand this reference through his Brooklyn, NY publishing house until after World War II. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 60306
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