Article: Rare 'Red Book' Documents Successes of Early Blacks


Los Angeles Sentinel
02-26-1997
Rare `Red Book' Documents Successes of Early Blacks.

Patricia Prather wasn't sure anything worthwhile lay in the paper scraps she requested from the 90-year-old printer's wife.

But Ms. Prather, an expert in black history and a self-termed urban archaeologist, knew how to excavate. And as she sifted the detritus from the long-ago Fifth Ward printing shop, something called to her. It was a weathered crimson volume, and it said, "The Red Book" in an 80-year-old typeface.

Peering inside, Ms. Prather entered another world: the bustling, driven, idealistic life of black Houstonians in 1915.

Nearly unknown and extraordinarily rare--the printer's wife and the Central ...

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