Selling Black history for Carter G. Woodson : a diary, 1930-1933

The Resource Selling Black history for Carter G. Woodson : a diary, 1930-1933
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Selling Black history for Carter G. Woodson : a diary, 1930-1933
Title remainder
a diary, 1930-1933
Statement of responsibility
Lorenzo J. Greene ; edited, with an introduction, by Arvarh E. Strickland
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Language
eng
Summary
  • In the summer of 1930, Lorenzo Johnston Greene, a graduate of Howard University and a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, became a book agent for the man with the undisputed title of "Father of Negro History," Carter G. Woodson. With little more than determination, Greene, along with four Howard University students, traveled throughout the South and Southeast selling books published by Woodson's Associated Publishers. Their dual purpose was to provide needed funds for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and to promote the study of African American history. Greene returned east by way of Chicago, and, for a time, he settled in Philadelphia, selling books there and in the nearby cities of Delaware and New Jersey. He left Philadelphia in 1931 to conduct a survey in Washington, D.C., of firms employing and not employing black workers
  • From 1930 until 1933, when Greene began teaching at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson provides a unique firsthand account of conditions in African American communities during the Great Depression. Greene describes in the diary, often in lyrical terms, the places and people he visited. He provides poignant descriptions of what was happening to black professional and business people, plus working-class people, along with details of high school facilities, churches, black business enterprises, housing, and general conditions in communities. Greene also gives revealing accounts of how the black colleges were faring in 1930
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digitized
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
973/.0496073
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
E185.97.W77
LC item number
G735 1996eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography

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