[Tennessee Division of School Libraries]:

$950 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE NEGRO A SELECTED LIST FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES OF BOOKS BY OR ABOUT THE NEGRO IN AFRICA AND AMERICA. An interesting bibliography and guide for school librarians in Tennessee during the Great Depression and the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance. This edition was revised in November 1935 and we are unaware of the date of any earlier editions (no earlier publications are recorded in OCLC). It was reprinted "through courtesy of the Julius Rosenwald fund," an endowed foundation which contributed large sums to education programs for African Americans in the first half of the 20th century. The bibliography was produced specifically to recommend books to all Black elementary and high school libraries, with the mission that "If Negro children are to acquire a knowledge of and respect for the achievement of members of their own race, it is essential that books dealing with this subject be made readily available to them." Titles are listed alphabetically by author within sections divided by grade level and subject; those marked with a star "are considered to be of especial value for school libraries." In addition to basic publication information, each entry includes the author's race, the book's current retail price, and a brief annotation describing its content and usefulness to a school library. The compilers present an interesting collection of titles, including works by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston in addition to numerous other children's books, histories, and other title

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