Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 168

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(EDUCATION.) E.W.B. Curry. Addresses. 4 portrait plates. 80 pages including initial blank. Octavo, 8¾ x 5¾ inches, original wrappers reading "Select Addresses by E.W.B. Curry," worn and chipped; minor wear to contents. Urbana, OH: Informer Publishing Company, circa [1911]
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Elmer Washington Bryant Curry (1871-1930) of Delaware, OH worked his way through Ohio Wesleyan University as a janitor, and then founded the long-running Curry Normal and Industrial Institute in Urbana, OH. This collection of his essays was produced to support the Institute. Curry was in the upbeat accommodationist tradition of Booker T. Washington, but also offers a forceful oration in opposition to white supremacist Ben Tillman. Two of his temperance lectures are here, including "The Negro and the Saloon." It also features an introduction by the white mayor of Richmond, KY, Clarence E. Woods, who praises him to the heavens and declares him "the equal of Booker T. Washington, himself the greatest Negro since the Egyptian kings!" 8 in OCLC, and none of Curry's works traced at auction.

Laid in is an unrelated photograph from the same era of the "Golden Jubilee Tourists of Tusk[egee], Ala." at Georgia's Lookout Mountain.

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