[African Americana]: [Alabama]: [Education]:

Industrial High School Record. Volume XVII, Number II [caption title].

Birmingham, Al. December 15, 1936. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Toning and creasing to paper, bit of staining to front cover, small holes through center affecting a few letters of text, tear to upper margin, chip along lower margin affecting a few letters of text. Good. Item #3774

A scarce newspaper published at Industrial High School, the first African American high school in Birmingham, Alabama. The school is today known as A.H. Parker High School, named for Arthur Harold Parker, the school's first principal, who together with William Pettiford, a close friend of Booker T. Washington, "led the effort to establish Industrial High School...the school taught domestic skills and crafts, rejecting the traditional scholastic curriculum taught in most high schools. The school held its first graduation in 1904..." (Peebles, "The Alabama Knights of Pythias," 22). The newspaper reports on a student visit to a nearby HBCU (Miles Memorial College) and a speech given to students by an N.A.A.C.P. Field Worker, while also printing poetry by students, school sports news, book reviews, articles on school clubs including the Science Museum Club and Junior Red Cross, etc.

Price: $325