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Henry Weathers High School Rolling Fork Mississippi 1960 Yearbook Edna Burns

$ 132

Availability: 77 in stock
  • Culture: Black Americana
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Condition: Good
  • Provenance: Ownership History Not Available

    Description

    This is a complete issue of the Henry Weathers High School Yearbook of Rolling Fork, Mississippi for 1960. The book is complete and clean, the binding is tight and solid but the vinyl covering from the spine is missing. No loose pages, moisture damage, odors, etc.
    Many personalizations and numerous names and inscriptions appear. Two prayer cards are mounted in the book along with a period photograph of a lovely woman.
    A treasure trove of African American genealogical information from the Mississippi Delta of 64 years past. The former owner of the book, Ms. Edna Lee Burns, added a speech to the 1960 Graduating Classrecorded numerous names and destinations throughout the back pages of the volume.
    From the first year of this segregated school's yearbook publication, this is possibly the only copy of this book remaining in existence.
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