The Southern Workman Nov 1917 HBCU Hampton Institute VA African American History

Description: Title: The Southern Workman, Memorial Number.Publisher: Press of The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia.Publication Date: November 1917.Format: softcoverLength: 82 pages [pp. 567-648]Size: approximately 6 7/8" by 10"Illustrations: 14 black and white photosDescription: Southern Workman was a monthly magazine published in the United States by the Hampton Institute Press at Hampton Institute, a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia. According to the Dictionary of Virginia, the magazine "published news and information about Hampton, its faculty, and its graduates, as well as lectures, articles, book reviews, and essays on topics in African American and American Indian history and education."Condition: Sound binding. Some chipping, toning, and staining to the cover. Some edge roughness where pages were separated after binding. A few pages have foxing, page edges are foxed. Contents: Special memorial edition dedicated to Hollis Burke Frissell (1852-1917). Frissell was an American chaplain and college president. He served as the second president of Hampton Institute. He served as the school's chaplain, vice-principal, and then principal until his death in 1917. He was also part of the General Education Board, Southern Education Board, Negro Rural School Fund, Anna T. Jeanes Foundation, Calhoun Colored School, Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School, Virginia Manual Labor School for the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, Mandingo Association, and served as president of the New York Colonization Society. He corresponded with W. E. B. DuBois, Arthur Curtiss James, Kelly Miller, George Foster Peabody, John D. Rockefeller, President Theodore Roosevelt, and President William Howard Taft.

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