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(CALIFORNIA) BEASLEY DELILAH L. The Negro Trail Blazers of California. Illustrated. 317 pages. Tall 8vo, original pictorial yellow-orange cloth; binding slightly discolored, rear cover with some rippling, long "tear-sheet" review from the Grizzly Bear Magazine loosely laid in Los Angeles, 1919
first edition of a scarce and important book with a page--long presentation on the front paste-down: "To the Young Colored Men's Christian Club of Coatesville, Penn. and Miss Ann Harlan former secretary of Y.W.C.A. of Coatesville Penn. In fond memory of my visit to this city and the several addresses delivered before this Club, the Men's Bible classes of the M.E. Churches (Sunday schools) and the Twilight Service at the First Baptist Church of Coatesville Penn. To the Club members when ever they should be faced with a problem that seems insurmountable, remember I spent ten years and ten months in writing this book. But it has been accepted in the libraries of the world. God bless you all, Delilah L. Beasley, Oct. 26, 1925." Beasley (1871-1934) journalist and historian, was born in Cincinnati, and wrote for several papers--her first article published at 12--but primarily for the Oakland, California Tribune, which she represented at the National Convention of Women Voters in Richmond, Virginia in 1925--the only black woman--and later the same year at the International Council of Women at Washington D.C. In addition to her newspaper work and exhaustive research for this book, Beasley was a tireless activist for Civil Rights and "strove to end the use of derogatory words like 'darky' and 'nigger' in American newspapers."(Frank Schubert, in the Dictionary of American Negro Biography, pages 34-35.) Cowan, page 40; Zamorano Select, 4; Eberstadt 107:19.
