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Size: 8x5x0; Flat signed by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor on half title page. From

Size: 8x5x0; Flat signed by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor on half title page. From the library of Dr. Ralph Gomes. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Signed sticker on front wrap. Clean, unmarked pages. Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor was a writer, actor and longtime NPR contributor. Smart-Grosvenor contributed hundreds of commentaries to NPR between 1980 and 2013. She was famed for her culinary explorations and travels, including a 1983 visit to a place she loved: Daufuskie Island, S.C. Dr. Gomes was a professor at Howard University for 49 years in sociology and criminology. He was also a former Olympic athlete, representing Guyana in the 1960 Rome summer Olympics. Besides his scholarly work, Gomes was active in the black liberation movement. He had an impressive and deep collection of black art, historical advertising and iconography that spoke of the passage of black people and how they sought to record their life stories. His collection spanned from slavery, to antebellum life, to Jim Crow, to the Harlem Renaissance, to sport, to the civil rights movement.