African American Educator's Memoir of Growing Up and Teaching in the Deep South

Holtzclaw, William Henry (1870-1943), Introduction by Booker T. Washington

The Black Man's Burden

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1915. First Edition. Black and white photographic plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 232 pages.

Holtzclaw was a protégé of Booker T. Washington and here recounts his rise from poverty, his education at Tuskegee, and his founding and leadership of the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute for the Training of Colored Young Men and Young Women in Utica, Mississippi on the same model as Tuskegee. An important primary source in the history of African American education in the deep South.

Ref. KRICK 225; BLOCKSON 2371.

Bound in blue cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine titles. Minor external wear, slight dulling to spine gilt. Prior owner bookplate on front pastedown, minor splits to front endpapers along hinge. Interior lightly toned, otherwise clean and sound. Very good overall.

Item #2003

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