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Author Hunter, Jane Edna, 1882-1971.

Title A nickel and a prayer : the autobiography of Jane Edna Hunter / Jane Edna Hunter ; edited by Rhondda Robinson Thomas.

Publication Info. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, [2011]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012.
©2011

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xvi, 270 pages :) : illustrations
text file
Note OldControl:muse9781935978213.
Originally published: Nashville, Parthenon Press, 1940. With new introd.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.
Contents ""Front Cover""; ""Cover Flaps""; ""Regenerations Series Page""; ""Special Thanks""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Hunter�s Great Migration: From Migrant to Activist""; ""Overcoming Black Clevelanders� Resistance to a “Jim Crow YWCA�""; ""The Economics of Social Welfare: White Patrons and the PWA""; ""From Foes to Friends: Hunter and the Formidable Black Club Women""; ""In the Tradition: Hunter�s Narrative and Black Female Autobiography as Activism""
""Nickel and a Prayer: The Trials and Triumphs of Publishing a “Simple Story of Service�""""Life After the PWA: From Activist to Philanthropist""; ""A Nickel and a Prayer""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Preface""; """"Old Times Are Not Forgotten""""; ""Family Life Ends""; ""College Days""; ""Commencement at Ferguson""; ""I Feel Like a Motherless Child""; ""A Career""; ""Early Days in Cleveland""; ""The Death of My Mother""; ""A Nickel and a Prayer""; ""Facing Adverse Criticisms""; ""Walk Together Children""; ""A Dream Comes True""; ""War Years""; ""Our New Home""; ""“Starlight�""
""Types of Girls Given a Chance""""Training for Homemaking and Domestic Service""; ""Friends Along the Way""; ""How I Was Taught Social Service""; ""Harvest of the Years""; ""Looking Ahead""; ""Two Brothers Point the Way""; ""The Negro and Industry""; ""Different Standards for Negroes""; ""Leadership""; ""Education the Way of Escape""; ""“Fireside Musings�""; ""Appendix A""; ""Jane E. Hunter to Booker T. Washington""; ""George A. Myers to Booker T. Washington""; ""Jane E. Hunter to George A. Myers""; ""Appendix B""; ""Robert H. Bishop, Jr. to Mrs. B.A. Spanye""; ""Appendix C""
""Appendix D""""Original version of manuscript""; ""Appendix E""; ""Book Review by John Bennett""; ""Worked in Charleston""; ""Influx of Negroes""; ""Founded by Own Race""; ""Copied in Nine Cities""; ""Forces for Evil""; ""Excerpt from Book Review by Rhoda E. McCulloch""; ""Appendix F""; ""Jane E. Hunter to Nannie Helen English""; ""Jane E. Hunter to Nan Burroughs""; ""Mary McLeod Bethune to Jane E. Hunter""; ""Appendix G""; ""Jane E. Hunter to Mrs. Morris""; ""Notes""; ""Epigraph""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Original Table of Contents""; ""Original Introduction""
""Original Preface""""""Old Times Are Not Forgotten""""; ""Family Life Ends""; ""College Days""; ""I Feel Like a Motherless Child""; ""A Career""; ""Early Days in Cleveland""; ""The Death of My Mother""; ""A Nickel and a Prayer""; ""Walk Together Children""; ""Our New Home""; """"Starlight""""; ""Types of Girls Given a Chance""; ""Training for Homemaking and Domestic Service""; ""Friends Along the Way""; ""Harvest of the Years""; ""Looking Ahead""; ""Fireside Musings""; ""Appendix A""; ""Appendix B""; ""Appendix C""; ""Appendix D""; ""Bibliography""; ""Collections""; ""Published Works""
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Subject Hunter, Jane Edna, 1882-1971.
Hunter, Jane Edna, 1882-1971.
Phillis Wheatley Association (Cleveland, Ohio) -- History.
Phillis Wheatley Association (Cleveland, Ohio)
History.
Hunter, Jane Edna, 1882-1971.
Phillis Wheatley Association.
African American women -- Biography.
African American women -- Biography.
African Americans -- Charities.
African Americans -- Charities.
Indexed Term Originally published: Nashville, Parthenon Press, 1940. With new introd.
"Multi-User"
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Added Author Thomas, Rhondda Robinson.
Other Form: Print version: Hunter, Jane Edna. Nickel and a Prayer. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, ©2012 9781933202648
ISBN 9781935978213 (electronic book)
1935978217 (electronic book)
9781933202655 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1933202653 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781933202648 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1933202645 (paperback ; alkaline paper)