Lifting as they climb / Elizabeth Lindsay Davis ; introduction by Sieglinde Lemke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Elizabeth Lindsay.

Contributor:

Lemke, Sieglinde, introduction writer.

Alcorn, Stephen, jacket illustrator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

African-American women writers, 1910-1940

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Association of Colored Women (U.S.)--History.

National Association of Colored Women (U.S.).

African American women--Societies and clubs--History.

African American women.

African American women--Societies and clubs.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxiii pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 424 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Distribution:

London : Prentice Hall International.

Place of Publication:

New York : G. K. Hall, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996.

Notes:

Originaly published: Washington, D.C. : National Association of Colored Women, 1933.

"'Lifting as They Climb' (1933) documents the history of the black women's club movement from its first national conference, held in Boston in 1895, to the Depression Years."--Introduction.

"Jacket design by Laura Glazer. Jacket illustration by Stephen Alcorn."

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxiii).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0783814194

OCLC:

35627620