- Collection:
- African American Lives
- Title:
- Little clusters: a mixed method for beginners; lesson stories, demonstrated lessons, health notes, child study and psychology, child astrology
- Creator:
- Anthony, Lucie Bragg
- Publisher:
- James A. Murray
- Date of Original:
- 1925
- Subject:
- African Americans--Education
African American educators
African American authors - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- readers
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The author of this reader, Lucie Bragg Anthony, M.D., was born in 1870 in Warrenton, North Carolina. She graduated from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1907. After marrying Francis Anthony, a Zion AME minister, the couple lived in Kentucky and Texas before settling in Sumter, South Carolina in 1910. Dr. Anthony had worked as a principal in the schools in Henderson, Kentucky and San Antonio, Texas. She became the first supervisor of the Sumter County Colored Schools in 1915 and worked there for 15 years. While there, she transformed the school system and promoted the health and well-being of the African American community, often by fundraising to supplement her often inadequate government-funded budgets. Dr. Anthony wrote and published this book during her tenure there. Her focus on health shows throughout the text; she highlighted the importance of bathing, eating a healthy diet, and exercise. The reader has lessons on reading, math, geography, and more, with a strong focus on Christian teachings. A music section includes several original children's songs by Dr. Anthony. The quotation on the title page, Little Clusters help to fill the garners too, is taken from the hymn entitled, In the vineyard of our Father, shown on page 9.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/digital/collection/p17336coll22/id/2462
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/iiif/2/p17336coll22:2462/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Images are in the public domain or protected under U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code), and both types may be used for research and private study. For publication, commercial use, or reproduction, in print or digital format, of all images and/or the accompanying data, users are required to secure prior written permission from the copyright holder and from archives@ua.edu. When permission is granted, please credit the images as Courtesy of The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections.
- Extent:
- 97 p.
- Original Collection:
- Little clusters: a mixed method for beginners; lesson stories, demonstrated lessons, health notes, child study and psychology, child astrology
- Contributing Institution:
- William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
- Rights:
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