Title: Blue & White. Los Angeles High School [Year Book] - with Senior photograph of Frederick Roberts, the school's first black student (later the first California Black legislator) Author: Place: Los Angeles Publisher: Date: 1902 [1900] Description: Illustrated with photographs and advertisements. 8½x6", original blue and white cloth, gilt-lettered. Pictured among the graduating seniors was Frederick Roberts, the school’s first Black student. Beneath his photograph is the caption: “Industrious. ‘Education’. ‘Thy modesty’s a candle to thy merit’” According to his family’s tradition, Frederick Madison Roberts (1879-1952) was the great-grandson of Sally Hemings, the slave and lover of President Thomas Jefferson Roberts, after attending the University of Southern California, founded and edited a Los Angeles Black newspaper, which served as a political stepping-stone. In 1918, Roberts became the first African-American elected to the California Legislature as a Republican, where he served for 16 years until defeated by a Black Democrat. Title page erroneously lists the yearbook as "Winter 1902," else where the date is correctly printed 1900. Lot Amendments Condition: Heavily rubbed at spine and edges, binding shaken; front hinge cracked, a previous owner's (student) name in ink on front free endpaper; very good internally. Item number: 230292
Title: Blue & White. Los Angeles High School [Year Book] - with Senior photograph of Frederick Roberts, the school's first black student (later the first California Black legislator) Author: Place: Los Angeles Publisher: Date: 1902 [1900] Description: Illustrated with photographs and advertisements. 8½x6", original blue and white cloth, gilt-lettered. Pictured among the graduating seniors was Frederick Roberts, the school’s first Black student. Beneath his photograph is the caption: “Industrious. ‘Education’. ‘Thy modesty’s a candle to thy merit’” According to his family’s tradition, Frederick Madison Roberts (1879-1952) was the great-grandson of Sally Hemings, the slave and lover of President Thomas Jefferson Roberts, after attending the University of Southern California, founded and edited a Los Angeles Black newspaper, which served as a political stepping-stone. In 1918, Roberts became the first African-American elected to the California Legislature as a Republican, where he served for 16 years until defeated by a Black Democrat. Title page erroneously lists the yearbook as "Winter 1902," else where the date is correctly printed 1900. Lot Amendments Condition: Heavily rubbed at spine and edges, binding shaken; front hinge cracked, a previous owner's (student) name in ink on front free endpaper; very good internally. Item number: 230292
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