(LITERATURE) Nannie H Burroughs editor Words of Life and Lig

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(LITERATURE.) Nannie H. Burroughs, editor. Words of Life and Light. [2], 133 pages. Octavo, 7 x 4½ inches, publisher's gilt cloth bearing cover title "Words of Light and Life Found Here and There," minor wear and staining; ink marks on 4 pages, manuscript notes on rear free endpaper, errata slip on page 81. Washington, May 1949

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Inspirational verse and prose compiled by Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961), a leader of the National Baptist Convention and founder of the Washington school which bears her name. Includes selections by James Weldon Johnson (pages 16-18, 41-42), Walter H. Brooks (36-40), Frederick Douglass (51), Booker T. Washington (52), Carter G. Woodson (53), D. Webster Davis (81), Benjamin Brawley (133), and many other authors either white or uncredited. None traced at auction.