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Portraits in color / by Mary White Ovington.
Van Pelt - Class of 1979 Seminar Room (305) E185.96 .O96
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Biographies
- Authors' inscriptions (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951 (autograph, Nov.22, 1927)
- Brown, Minnie (inscription)
- Neely, M. Mae (autograph, 1936)
- Physical Description:
- x pages, 1 leaf, 241 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, 1927.
- Summary:
- Portraits of 20 distinguished African-Americans by the co-founder of the NAACP.
- Contents:
- James Weldon Johnson.
- Marcus Garvey.
- Max Yergan.
- Mordecai W. Johnson.
- Lucy Laney.
- Robert Russa Moton.
- W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.
- Scipio Africanus Jones.
- Walter White.
- Robert S. Abbott.
- Maggie Lena Walker.
- Eugene Kinckle Jones.
- Louis Tompkins Wright.
- Ernest Everett Just.
- George Washington Carver.
- Janie Porter Barrett.
- Langston Hughes.
- Paul Robeson.
- Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller.
- Roland Hayes.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak copy has inscription: For Minnie Brown with affectionate regards from Mary White Ovington. Nov.22, 1927.
- OCLC:
- 2292974
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