Description: Virtually unknown outside of her adopted hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Hunter was one of the most influential African American social worker and progresive activists of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. This new and annotated edition of A Nickel and a Prayer restores Hunter to her rightful place among prominent African American leaders of the twentieth century, as a multifaceted social activist who not only engaged in racial uplift work, but impacted African American cultural production, increased higher education opportunities for women, and invigorated African American philanthropy.
