Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Poetic Obituaries: With limited funds but boundless

determination, she [Mayme Clayton] eventually amassed what experts today regard as a valuable and eclectic collection of black Americana. Its most glorious holding is a signed copy of the first book published by an African American: ex-slave Phillis Wheatley's "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" of 1773.

from Los Angeles Times: A Champion of Black History

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