Soulcraft: Sketches on Negro-White Relations Designed to Encourage Friendship with a Small Archive of Such a Friendship
Atlanta, Georgia: B.F. Logan Press, 1948. Third printing. 8vo. 63pp. Green cloth boards with gilt titling, in rare dustjacket, evidence of moisture to spine of jacket and book, chipping, author and title handwritten on faded spine, inscribed by author on half title page and several pamphlets laid in, overall very good. Scarce in jacket.
Florence "Frankie" Victoria Adams was a social worker, educator, author, and community activist who spent most of her career with the Atlanta School of Social Work, now the Whitney M. Young, Jr. School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University. She authored two books, the second about her work at CAU which was published posthumously. Adams was also heavily involved with the YWCA and thanks them in Soulcraft's acknowledgements for the "encouragement to present this material in a more general way."
This copy is inscribed, "To Mary Kate Duskin One of my favorite Soulcrafters with love Frankie V. Adams June 1959". Duskin was the longtime executive secretary of the Atlanta YWCA and a friend of Adams. Laid in are four programs from Adams's memorial service in 1979, a tri-fold brochure for Talk Two: Storge-Part II from C.S Lewis's A Series of Ten Radio Talks on Love (1959, The Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation, Atlanta), a Christmas card from Missionhurst Mission in Zaire signed "With love Frankie," a pamphlet with Dr. Joel Nederhood's sermon The Best Friendship inscribed to Duskin from Adams, and a typed testimony titled "My Christianity" which Adams says she prepared for her Sunday school class and signed. Item #9506
Price: $150.00