Item #91238 The Allenite. Mobile Allen Institute, Alabama.
The Allenite
The Allenite

The Allenite

Mobile, Alabama: Senior Class of Allen Institute, (1956). Hardcover. photos, 55, (9)p. Original blue cover. 27 cm. Lower edge bumped. Foxing on endpapers. Josephine Allen Institute was founded by Josphine Blackledge Allen, a prominent local African American, as a private school for African Americans in 1895 (or maybe 1905) -- the school's insignia on page 1 lists the founding date as MDCCCXCV but her 1955 obituary in The Mobile Press which is reprinted on page 54 reported that Allen had founded the school fifty years ago when she was 28. Good. Item #91238

Price: $150.00