Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Dunbar speaker and entertainer : containing the best prose and poetic selections by and about the Negro race, with programs arranged for special entertainments / ed. by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson and an introduction by Leslie Pinckney Hill.
Call Number
Eng 20 61533
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc7w62fq12z
Publisher
Naperville, Ill. : J.L. Nichols & Co., c 1920.
Language
English
Date Created
1920
Format
Book
Extent
288 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports., photos. ; 22 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Date from t.p. verso.
Dedication: To the children of the race which is herein celebrated, this book is dedicated, that they may read and learn about their own people.
An anthology of work by black people for black people, about black people. From the intro: 'What the children read the fathers will believe.'.
Binding Note
Pub. brown cloth stamped in black.

Discovery Information

Subject
American literature—African American authors
African Americans—Literary collections

Physical Characteristics

File Count
328

Institutional Information

Collection
Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
IIIF Manifest URL

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