Paperback
1915 · Morristown, Tennessee
Morristown, Tennessee: Morristown Normal and Industrial College, 1915. Paperback. Very Good. pages unnumbered (8-12 interior pages in almost all issues). Softcover in individual original wrappers -- except for the January, 1915 issue which does not appear to have been issued with a separate wrapper. 24 cm. Minor chipping on edges of first few issues, Later vertical center crease on all issues. This African American school seem to have been more of an, at least partially residential, elementary school and high school and vocational school than a college. Alumni news, seemingly never more than a page or partial page, includes mention of graduates who have gone on to attend Fisk or some other college (often an HBCU). Commentary about racial issues is mostly cautious but not always. Most issues include some material on Wallace Farm, the 240 acre farm owned by the school. Money is often tight and many issues include an ongoing effort to raise money for a men's dormitory projected to have room for 100 students. Our eye was caught by "Trampled Race," a interesting poem by one of their students (Beatrice Froe), in the Nov. 1917 issue. We found scant online information about Ms. Froe other than an obituary for a Reginald Carter, where she is identified as his first wife, having had eight children and dying before 1948. Reginald Carter, 1906-2000, is identified in the obituary as owner and operator of Carter Printing Company in Los Angeles and as having been editor and publisher of a Los Angeles newspaper (listed in the obituary as Los Angeles News, but not otherwise located by us) and as having been the Vice Presidential nominee on the national ticket of the Independent Afro-American Party in the 1960 Presidential election. Online records indicate that this pioneering Party got 1485 votes.
(Inventory #: 91972)