Pen Pictures of Pioneers of Wilberforce.

BROWN, Hallie Q.

$4,000.00

Item Number: 146641

Xenia, OH: The Aldine Publishing Company, 1937.

First edition of this snapshot of early life at Wilberforce, Ohio by the legendary African-American educator and activist. Small octavo, original green pictorial cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs and etchings. Boldly signed by Hallie Q. Brown on the front pastedown. In near fine condition. Accompanied by two advertisements for this and one of Brown’s other books. Books signed by Brown are exceptionally rare.

Hallie Quinn Brown was an African-American educator and activist. The child of freed slaves, Brown studied science at Wilberforce University and earned her Bachelor of Science in 1890 as salutatorian. In 1886, she graduated from the adult education and social movement, Chautauqua, and returned to Wilberforce University to become the first woman to receive a Master of Science there. For several years she traveled with 'The Wilberforce Grand Concert Company,' as a public reader wowing audiences with her "magnetic voice" and often moving people to tears. A staunch advocate of women's rights, Brown spoke on voting rights, endorsed the status of women in teaching, and founded the Colored Woman's League of Washington, D.C., which in 1896 merged into the National Association of Colored Women.