Raynors HCA 2018-10
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Book, “A School History of the Negro Race in America” by Edward A. Johnson, missing title and front end pages, 1911, 200pp., loose at spine, with illustrations. There are scattered student scribbles. Edward A. Johnson was born in slavery in Wake County, North Carolina. Johnson, in his early education, was taught by a free colored woman, Miss Nancy Walton. He continued his education at Washington High School. He then attended Atlanta University and worked as a school principal from 1883 until 1891, first in Atlanta and then in Raleigh, North Carolina. Meanwhile, he wrote A School History of the Negro Race in America, which was the first textbook by a black author to be approved by the North Carolina State Board of Education for use in the public schools.
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