To Be a Publisher: Lillian Jones Horace and the Dotson-Jones Printing Company
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2013
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Texas A&M University Press
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Horace, Publisher, African American, Black
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Knight, Alisha Coleman. To Be a Publisher: Lillian Jones Horace and the Dotson-Jones Printing Company.” Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writings of Lillian Jones Horace. Ed. Karen Kossie-Chernyshev (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013), 151-62
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In 1916, Lillian Jones Horace became the first published African American novelist in Texas and one of the first black publishers in American history when she printed her racial separatist novel, Five Generations Hence. A public school teacher who spent much of her career in Fort Worth, she called for black immigration to Africa early in her writing career