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(BUSINESS.) DABNEY, WENDELL PHILLIPS. Cincinnati's Colored Citizens. Historical, Sociological and Biographical.
(BUSINESS.) DABNEY, WENDELL PHILLIPS. Cincinnati's Colored Citizens. Historical, Sociological and Biographical. Copiously illustrated from photographs. Small 4to, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine; very slight wear with one corner bumped. Cincinnati: Dabney Publishing Co, (1926)
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Notes: first edition. inscribed on the front pastedowns "Miss Carrie Hill Johnson, best wishes of W. P. Dabney, 7/13/36." Wendell Phillips Dabney (1865-1952), "Writer, musician, journalist, protest leader, publisher and man of political influence." (Logan, Dictionary of American Negro Biography.) Dabney attended Oberlin, established a music school in Boston, worked with Frederick Douglass on the Emancipation Day Fair in Chicago in 1893, co-founded the Frederick Douglass political League, and was the first president of the Cincinnati branch of the NAACP.
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