PREFACE This collection of biographies of prominent Negro men and women of Washington, D. C. is Volume VI of the Biographical History of the American Negro. It does not pretend to include all the important men and women of the race in the Capital City, but it does include many of the noblest and best. Others equally prominent and useful, misunderstanding or disapproving of the work, have either ignored the request for data or flatly refused to furnish same. A book dealing with contemporary men and women can never be made quite complete or exhaustive, for, even while it is being made, some. will move or pass away, while others will rise to take their places. We have sought to make the work, at least, representative, dealing with leaders in the educational, religious, professional and business life of the City. The Editor, who is also the Publisher, is grateful for the cordial spirit of co-operation shown by many of those who were personally interviewed. The writer hopes sometime to bring out a book dealing with types of Washington Negroes (some unknown elsewhere in America), in which it will be proper to set down many interesting things which do not belong in a biographical work. THE PUBLISHER. |
