NOTE: We, The G.C. and Frances Hawley Museum® - I Remember Our History® have been blessed to have been given a copy of this Langston Hughes children's book. (Image). A member of our advisory board donated this book to our collection.

It was owned by Cleo W. Tucker of 60 Horton Ave., New Rochelle NY, so says the book label on the inside front cover. We also found some math school work of Cleo's inside. Though there is no date on the school work, his name is on it, and he was given a grade of 82.

As you can see from the photographs of the book, it was well read as the dust cover fell apart. The Book cover and pages are in Very Good condition. We are grateful that the dust cover was kept and included, even though torn in pieces, we have all of it.
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About This Book:
Tells of the life and culture of the negro people in Africa and America through the story of the experiences of a little negro boy who lives in New York.

Stories for children about notable Black figures from history in music, science, sports, literature and more.

The First Book of Negroes is a series of vignettes about historical and contemporary African-Americans strung together by a story featuring a young African-American boy named Terry who lives in Harlem. The book doesn’t shy away from issues of segregation and discrimination that were still prevalent in the United States, especially in the Jim Crow South where discrimination and segregation were still legal at the time the book was published.

The first edition of The First Book of Negroes was published in 1952. The illustrations were by Ursula Koering, who during her lifetime illustrated more than 200 children’s books, including The First Book of Indians (1950) and The First Book of Eskimos (1952) in the Franklin Watts series. Koering later became a sculptor for the Franklin Mint.