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HUNTON, ADDIE WAITES. Autograph
Letter Signed to Oscar [? De Priest.]
One page, 4to, on NAACP letterhead.
Mobile, March 12, 1923 [400/600]
Addie Waites) Hunton (1866-1943) educator,
race and gender activist, writer, suffragist, and
political organizer, was born in Norfolk,
Virginia. During World War I, Hunton and
two others were the only African American
women assigned by the U.S. Army to work
with 200,000 segregated black troops stationed
in France. When she returned to the U.S. in
1919, she and her coworker, Kathryn Johnson,
wrote about their experiences with the troops in
the book “Two Colored Women with the
American Expeditionary Forces.” (1920). She
writes and asks that her trunk be forwarded
down to Alabama, saying “I must get on some
thinner clothing.” She refers to her daughter
Eunice, who was the first black women to
receive a law degree from Fordham University
(1933) She became the first black woman
assistant district attorney in New York.
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OLCOTT, JANE, Compiler. The Work
of Colored Women. Large folding chart
and additional illustrations throughout.
8vo, original embossed, printed stiff grey
cardstock wrappers. An exceptional copy.
New York: Colored Work Committee,
War Work Council, (1919) [500/750]
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. The Colored
Work Committee was organized in1917.
Some of these young women’s efforts were con-
nected with the war effort, while others went
into poverty-stricken areas of the deep South to
teach, and helped obtain better working condi-
tions for factory workers in the cities. By 1919,
the Colored Work Committee of the
Y.W.C.A. had branches all over the country.
294 ● (CIVIL RIGHTS—WOMEN.) TERRELL, MARY CHURCH. The National
Notes. Official Organ of the National Association of Colored Women.
Convention Number. Centerfold poster, and additional monochrome and black and
white illustrations throughout. Large 4to, original printed wrappers.
Kansas City, 1924 [400/600]
SCARCE SPECIAL CONVENTION ISSUE with a removable sepia centerfold poster showing
Frederick Douglass’ home at Anacostia. The home was purchased by the National Association
of Colored Women under the leadership of Mary Burnett Talbert and was maintained by
them. Articles by Hallie Q. Brown, Mary Church Terrell, and Frances Bolling. No copies
located by OCLC.
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