Twenty-Two Years' Work of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
[AFRICAN AMERICANS] ARMSTRONG, S.C. (et al). Twenty-Two Years' Work of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute at Hampton, Virginia. Records of Negro and Indian Graduates and Ex-Students with Historical and Personal Sketches and Testimony on Important race Questions From Within and Without [...] Illustrated With Views and Maps Hampton, VA: Normal School Press, 1893. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's gilt-stamped, pebbled cloth boards; 520pp; folding frontis, 4 illustrations (maps) to text. Brief external wear, fading and soil; slight scuffing to endpapers; still a solid, Good copy free of library markings or significant wear.
This the copy of prominent African-American educator, suffragist and anti-lynching activist Ella Barksdale Brown (1871-1966), with her ownership signature to front endpaper. A Georgia native and child of slaves, Brown was a member of the first graduating class of Spelman College. She went on to a long and active writing career for African-American newspapers including the Chicago Defender and New York's Amsterdam News.
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