Boston: The House of Edinboro, Publishers, (1952) dj. Hardcover first edition - The last book by this pioneering sociologist, activist and close friend of Booker T. Washington and his wife, written to inspire young adults, the biography of another 'unsung hero' - that is, the story of Major Richard Robert Wright (1855-1947). It details his inspiring life journey from being the child referenced in a John Greenleaf Whittier poem (which is where the title for this book comes from) to the the highest-ranking African American officer during the Spanish-American War, a prominent educator who was a founder of Savannah State University, civil rights organizer and active in the National Freedom Day Association, politician, founder of the Citizens and Southern Bank and Trust Company in Philadelphia one of the first African American owned banks in the North, overcoming significant racial prejudice in the Jim Crow South. Although she notes that Wright was already in his 90s when she began working on this book, he welcomed her into his home, answered her questions and made his papers available. Preface by Rufus E. Clement. Illustrated with photographs. Scarce in the first edition. Laid in is a promotional flyer from the publisher, a single sheet, approx 9 by 6 inches. 237 pp.