(BUSINESS TENNESSEE) OVERBEY JAMES T The Negro and the Comm

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(BUSINESS--TENNESSEE.) OVERBEY, JAMES T. The Negro and the Commercial World, By James T . Overby of Tennessee (cover title). 10 pages. Portrait frontispiece. 12mo, original printed decorative wrappers, stapled. Np (Tenn?), circa 1908

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An unusual little booklet that encouraged young people to learn the trade of leatherwork. More than simply speaking for the leather trade, Overbey says: "I believe a great curse is being committed on the future boys and girls of our race by those who are our present leaders, in that they are making but little opportunities for the young, but are allowing the condition to remain dark and gloomy. Young women emerging from college only to be forced to accept some position as office girl in some doctor''s office, where she is oft-times subjected to many insults . . ." No copies located by OCLC.