(LITERATURE AND POETRY PERIODICALS) PENN I GARLAND The Afro

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY--PERIODICALS.) PENN, I. GARLAND. The Afro-American Press and its Editors. Engraved portrait frontispiece and a profusion of additional portrait plates. 549 pages, 7 pages of plates; index pages 557-565, plus advertisements. Original deluxe binding of pebble-grained cinnabar red cloth, decoratively stamped in black, silver and gold; all edges tinted red; a couple of signatures partially sprung; delicate end-papers intact. Springfield, MA, 1891

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An exceptional reference with portraits of the most of the African American press's important figures. In many cases, the editors were activists and reformers like Frederick Douglass. Penn (1867-1930) was an educator, editor and author.