Hardcover
1920 · Napierville, IL
by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, ed
Napierville, IL: J. L. Nichols & Co, 1920. Hardcover. 288p., illus. with photos (including a frontis portrait. of Dunbar-Nelson) and drawings, trace of cover edge wear else very good condition. Dunbar-Nelson created this reader to counteract white stereotypes by enabling a public hearing for black authors in a number of areas -- juvenile, dialect, drama, oratory, etc. -- as part of her lifetime of racial activism. (Inventory #: 114550)