A nickel and a prayer : the autobiography of Jane Edna Hunter / Jane Edna Hunter ; edited by Rhondda Robinson Thomas, with a foreword by Joycelyn Moody.

Originally published: Nashville, Parthenon Press, 1940. With new introduction.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Front Cover -- Cover Flaps -- Regenerations Series Page -- Special Thanks -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hunter�s Great Migration: From Migrant to Activist -- Overcoming Black Clevelanders� Resistance to a “Jim Crow YWCA� -- The Economics of Social Welfare: White Patrons and the PWA -- From Foes to Friends: Hunter and the Formidable Black Club Women -- In the Tradition: Hunter�s Narrative and Black Female Autobiography as Activism

Nickel and a Prayer: The Trials and Triumphs of Publishing a “Simple Story of Service�Life After the PWA: From Activist to Philanthropist -- A Nickel and a Prayer -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface -- Old Times Are Not Forgotten -- Family Life Ends -- College Days -- Commencement at Ferguson -- I Feel Like a Motherless Child -- A Career -- Early Days in Cleveland -- The Death of My Mother -- A Nickel and a Prayer -- Facing Adverse Criticisms -- Walk Together Children -- A Dream Comes True -- War Years -- Our New Home -- “Starlight�

Types of Girls Given a ChanceTraining for Homemaking and Domestic Service -- Friends Along the Way -- How I Was Taught Social Service -- Harvest of the Years -- Looking Ahead -- Two Brothers Point the Way -- The Negro and Industry -- Different Standards for Negroes -- Leadership -- Education the Way of Escape -- “Fireside Musings� -- Appendix A -- Jane E. Hunter to Booker T. Washington -- George A. Myers to Booker T. Washington -- Jane E. Hunter to George A. Myers -- Appendix B -- Robert H. Bishop, Jr. to Mrs. B.A. Spanye -- Appendix C

Appendix DOriginal version of manuscript -- Appendix E -- Book Review by John Bennett -- Worked in Charleston -- Influx of Negroes -- Founded by Own Race -- Copied in Nine Cities -- Forces for Evil -- Excerpt from Book Review by Rhoda E. McCulloch -- Appendix F -- Jane E. Hunter to Nannie Helen English -- Jane E. Hunter to Nan Burroughs -- Mary McLeod Bethune to Jane E. Hunter -- Appendix G -- Jane E. Hunter to Mrs. Morris -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Original Table of Contents -- Original Introduction

Original PrefaceOld Times Are Not Forgotten -- Family Life Ends -- College Days -- I Feel Like a Motherless Child -- A Career -- Early Days in Cleveland -- The Death of My Mother -- A Nickel and a Prayer -- Walk Together Children -- Our New Home -- Starlight -- Types of Girls Given a Chance -- Training for Homemaking and Domestic Service -- Friends Along the Way -- Harvest of the Years -- Looking Ahead -- Fireside Musings -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Bibliography -- Collections -- Published Works

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