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How to Speak and Pray in Public

1951

Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A softcover copy of How to Speak and Pray in Public by J. Vernon Jacobs. The softcover book has an adhesive and stitched binding. The front cover is light and dark brown. At the top two-thirds of the cover is an illustrated, large, dark brown square with rough edges. Inside is light brown cross at the center with light brown text in varying sizes above that reads [how to / Speak and Pray / in Public] and [J. VERNON JACOBS] printed below. Printed dark brown text over the light brown field at the bottom of the front cover reads [? ? HOW TO PRESIDE ? ? HOW TO SERVE AS AN OFFICER / ? HOW TO OVERCOME FEAR ? ? HOW TO MAKE TALKS ? / HOW TO LEAD A DISCUSSION ? HOW TO MAKE CALLS / HOW TO PLAN PROGRAMS ? ? HOW TO TELL STORIES].

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Catalog reference: 2011.12.52.34

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