Name: a nickel and a prayer
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Author: Hunter, Jane Edna ; Thomas, Rhondda Robinson ; Moody, Joycelyn
ISBN: 9781933202655

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jane Edna Hunter

Illustrated by

Rhondda Robinson Thomas

Preface by

Joycelyn Moody

Publisher

West Virginia University Press

Language

English

Pages

270

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.6x14x1.8 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN

1933202653

ISBN13

9781933202655

Synopsis "a nickel and a prayer"

Virtually unknown outside of her adopted hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Hunter was one of the most influential African American social activists of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. In her autobiography A Nickel and a Prayer, Hunter presents an enlightening two-part narrative that recollects her formative years in the post-Civil War South and her activist years in Cleveland. First published in 1940, Hunter's autobiography recalls a childhood filled with the pleasures and pains of family life on the former plantation where her ancestors had toiled, adventures and achievements in schools for African American children, tests and trials during her brief marriage, and recognition and respect while completing nursing training and law school. When sharing the story of her life as an activist, Hunter describes the immense obstacles she overcame while developing an interracial coalition to support the Phillis Wheatley Association and nurturing its growth from a rented home that provided accommodations for twenty-two women to a nine-story building that featured one hundred and thirty-five rooms. This new and annotated edition of A Nickel and a Prayer includes the final chapter, "Fireside Musings," that Hunter added to the second, limited printing of her autobiography and an introduction that lauds her as a multifaceted social activist who not only engaged in racial uplift work, but impacted African American cultural production, increased higher education opportunities for women, and invigorated African American philanthropy. This important text restores Jane Edna Hunter to her rightful place among prominent African American leaders of the twentieth century.

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