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Unsung heroes ; The Black boy of Atlanta ; Negroes in domestic service in the United States / Elizabeth Ross Haynes ; introduction by Francille Rusan Wilson.

Title
Unsung heroes ; The Black boy of Atlanta ; Negroes in domestic service in the United States / Elizabeth Ross Haynes ; introduction by Francille Rusan Wilson.
Author
Haynes, Elizabeth Ross, 1883-1953
Publication
New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International, [1997]

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Additional Authors
  • Wilson, Francille Rusan, 1947-
  • G.K. Hall & Company publisher.
  • Prentice-Hall International publisher.
Description
1 v. (various pagings) : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
  • The Black Boy of Atlanta (1952), also written for young readers, is Ross Haynes's biography of Major Richard R. Wright, the first president of the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth and of the Citizens and Southern Bank and Trust Company. "Negroes in Domestic Service in the United States," published in The Journal of Negro History in 1923, was the subject of Ross Haynes's M.A. thesis for her degree in sociology from Columbia University.
  • It was the first comprehensive study of the largest segment of black nonfarm workers.
Series Statement
African-American women writers, 1910-1940
Uniform Title
  • Works. Selections. 1997
  • African-American women writers, 1910-1940
Alternative Title
  • Works. 1997
  • Unsung heroes ; The Black boy of Atlanta ; Negroes in domestic service in the United States
  • Black boy of Atlanta
  • Negroes in domestic service in the United States
  • Black boy of Atlanta.
  • Negroes in domestic service in the United States.
Subject
  • Wright, Richard R., 1849?-1947
  • African Americans > Biography
  • Women household employees > Washington (D.C.) > Economic conditions
  • African American college presidents > Georgia > Atlanta > Biography
  • College presidents > Georgia > Atlanta > Biography
  • African American bankers > Georgia > Atlanta > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Fredrick Douglass -- Paul Laurence Duncan -- Booker T. Washington -- Harriet Tubman -- Alexander S. Pushkin -- Blanche Kelso Bruce -- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor -- Benjamin Banneker -- Phillis Wheatley -- Toussanint L'Ouverture -- Josiah Henson -- Sojourner Truth -- Crispus Attucks -- Alexandre Dumas -- Paul Cuffe -- Alexander Crummell -- John Mercer Langston -- Robert Richard Wright.
ISBN
0783814321 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^96043477^
OCLC
  • 35650671
  • SCSB-10615647
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library