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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Albert E. Manley, President Emeritus of Spelman College. Octavo. 192pp. With several illustrations from photographs. Fine in lightly tanned, near fine dust jacket with a bit of scuffing and wear. The very uncommon autobiography of an African-American woman who was born in South Carolina but spent more than 50 years educating African-American students in North Carolina from grade school to college, primarily as a teacher and reading specialist. This copy with an association to two other African-American female educators is Inscribed by Herring on the front fly: "To Ms. Delores [sic] Nicholson with love and best wishes, Lucy S. Herring. Nov. 23, 1985. Compliments of Miss Louise M. Rountree, your dear friend (and mine) with her love." Aleathia Dolores Nicholson was an African-American historian, religious leader, and educator in Nashville for decades. A scholar of the Harlem Renaissance, African-American women, and of Zora Neale Hurston in particular, Nicholson contributed 16 biographical entries to Jessie Carney Smith's *Notable Black American Women: Book II*, among other publications. Louise M. Rountree was an African-American scholar, educator, and librarian, who worked for 36 years at Livingstone College, an HBCU in Salisbury, North Carolina. A very uncommon autobiography with a lovely association between three African-American women scholars and educators. *OCLC* locates 15 copies, but only six outside of North Carolina.