[African Americana]: [Virginia]:

Hampton [cover title].

[Hampton, Va. The Press of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, January, 1924]. [8]pp. 16mo. Original self wrappers, stapled. Very minor wear. Near fine. Item #4143

A very rare fundraising brochure printed and issued by Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute during the Roaring Twenties. The short, pocket-sized work includes sections titled, "What Hampton Is," "What It Is Doing," "What It Has Done," "What You Can Do," and "Tributes to Hampton." The first section states that General Samuel Chapman Armstrong founded Hampton after he "found thousands of homeless, helpless, starving Negroes clustered in miserable poverty under the sheltering walls of Fort Monroe, Virginia." The next section claims the school is "solving the race problem in the South" by "the stimulation of race pride" and other methods. The tributes to the school come from four notable white men: William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Everett Hale, and Charles W. Eliot. Chapman's portrait decorates the penultimate page of the present work, which was printed at the school. Not in Work or Blockson. OCLC reports just a single institutional copy, at the Library of Virginia.

Price: $250