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(BUSINESS--DIRECTORIES.) DETROIT. The Booker T. Washington Trade Association. Program and Business Directories for 1935 and 1936, together 2 volumes. Well-illustrated. 64 pages and 28 pages respectively. Uniform 8vo's, with identical printed wrappers; the first volume printed on finer quality paper and larger, probably a sign of the depression years. Detroit: Tribune Independent Printing Co., 1935-1936
A pair of scarce business directories. The first provides a history of the Trade Association, formed in 1930. First called the Detroit Negro Trade Association, but changed a few months later to The Booker T. Washington Trade Association. The Association, in concert with the Detroit Housewives League conducted annual exhibits and seems to have been quite active in Detroit's black community. The Booker T. Washington Association, a trade association still exists in Detroit. Curiously enough we could find no copies of these directories anywhere.
