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Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book is a powerful and insightful exploration of the challenges facing African Americans in the early 20th century, written from a deeply personal and passionate perspective. The author, a dedicated educator and devout Christian, argues that the key to overcoming racial prejudice and achieving true equality lies in a profound moral transformation within the Black community itself. Drawing on a wealth of historical context and biblical teachings, the book delves into the complexities of poverty, immorality, and internal divisions that plagued African Americans at the time. The author contends that these problems stemmed from the legacy of slavery and its lingering effects, and that true progress can only be achieved through a commitment to education, self-reliance, and unwavering moral integrity. The book offers a powerful call to action, urging readers to embrace personal responsibility and strive for excellence in all aspects of their lives. Through a unique blend of religious conviction, social commentary, and deeply felt observations, the author lays bare the urgent need for African Americans to break free from the shackles of their past and forge a brighter future. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

Condizione: Good. 8½" x 6". Illustrated brown cloth. Pp. [double-sided frontis], [6, title and table of contents], x, 238. Good: first leaf supplied in facsimile; boards with moderate wear and heavy soiling; leaves lightly toned, several with small tears; front pastedown with two different names in pencil; rear endpapers with owner name in pencil numerous times; a couple of leaves with dogears; a couple of minor stains and penciled notes in text. This is a copiously illustrated work of uplift and poetry sprinkled with several dozen images of Black Texas leaders, all compiled and written by a woman, Josie B. Hall. The book has a brief biography of Hall which stated that she was born in 1869, in Waxahachie, Texas, and that her uncle and grandfather were the first African American landowners in that town. She was orphaned at the age of 11 and started teaching Sunday School when she was 12 years old, and later taught in various places in Mississippi and Texas through 1904. She married Professor J.P. Hall in 1888. At the time of publication, J.P. was the principal of Mexia Colored High School and there's an image of him in the book as well. According to Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph (University of Texas Press, 1995) (BTW), this was the first book published by a Black woman in Texas. BTW also gave a good summation of this book's importance: "In [Hall's] essays and poems, she enjoined the members of her race to be above criticism and echoed many of the philosophical underpinnings of the black women's club movement. In her poem 'The Pinnacle of Fame' she urges girls to 'try to be good, / By raising the standard of womanhood.' While Mrs. Hall was very critical of her own people, she also published a speech by Mrs. C. Minnie Allen of Fort Worth, which condemned the prevalent, and eminently unfair, double standard in the stereotyping of blacks by whites. Hall's and Allen's writings demonstrate the pivotal role many educated African-American women played in addressing matters of ethics with blacks and whites alike. Their prophetic interpretations developed within a broader tradition of black women moving between the intimate sphere of white and black communities, noticing and naming the contradictions they encountered within and between them." Hall devoted a few pages to why she wrote the book: "I saw that the race had been trampled, stigmatized, oppressed and discouraged so much, until it had but a very little ambition left to go forward and upward. Then, after looking into the matter deeper I discerned that effeteness had begotten poverty, poverty immorality, immorality vice, vice crime, and crime illness. On discovering the illness of the race, I at once fixed upon a resolution . . . and I leave to your better judgment as to what will be said, and as to the fate of this medicine that I have prepared to put the race in a healthful development, and make it happy ,prosperous and progressive." The book is broken up into 63 chapters and includes 37 original poems by Hall. Hall continued her medicine theme in her first essay: "I see that the race is ill, hence I have dissected the carcass of its nature, and made a profound diagnosis of its constitution and disease . . . thus with all my imperfections and with all of my fears, I have taken upon me the responsibility of administering medicine to the needs of my people . . . I have mixed and rolled a series of valuable ingredients together, the object of which is to make a better people and solve the Negro problem." Topics of other essays and poems include mob violence and lynching, education as a solution to the race problem, politics, womanhood and much more. A sample from "The Political Relation of the Negro": "the amendment that granted suffrage to the Negro has a mournful sound to me; that is when I look at the covered and uncovered snares in the political pathway, and when I think of the many things that have caused the Nation's heart to quiver and bleed. Now, after carefully scrutinizi.…