Colored girls and boys' inspiring United States history / and a heart to heart talk about white folks

A number of typographical errors (punctuation, reversal and duplication of letters on words, etc.) in the original have been corrected. (etext-transcriber's note.)
“ SERVICE OUR MISSION. ” ( Graduating Class Motto )
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Jr.,
As a hustling agent delivering his popular book, which (by making the saddest person laugh, the jolliest person cry and the most thoughtless person think), is selling itself like buckwheat cakes and sausage steaming-hot some frosty morn or cool refreshing ice cream when the sun is very warm.
COPYRIGHT 1921 BY WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. Jr.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THOSE COLORED GIRLS AND BOYS UPON WHOSE NOBLE EFFORTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS WILL REST THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE SUCCESS OF THE NEGRO RACE: AND TO ALL THOSE WHITE WOMEN AND MEN WHOSE KIND ENCOURAGEMENT OF AND JUST DEALINGS WITH ALL HUMANITY ARE BRINGING ABOUT BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND GREATER CO-OPERATIONS BETWEEN WHITE AND COLORED PEOPLE. COMPOSED—COMPILED—WRITTEN ARRANGED—DESIGNED AND ORIGINAL DRAWINGS MADE FROM ALONG THE FAMOUS PICTURESQUE LEHIGH VALLEY OF PENNSYLVANIA, U. S. A. BY WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Jr.

Negroes should find great pride indeed In Race progress herein they read; But to such readers let me tell This book means not our heads to swell; For five of the greatest rich white men Could buy the wealth of our Race: and then!
So this book is neither a brag nor boast But just to inspire our younger host To elevate their racial name From poisoned stains of slavery shame, By climbing to the highest heights Thro aid of friends who are “real whites”.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, when a lad fifteen years old attending the public schools of Pennsylvania, in which State I was born and reared, certain ideas and sentiments caused me to secretly resolve that some day, when I had gotten together the necessary data, I would write just such a book as is contained herein. At the time that resolution was formed, I was attending the Darlington School in Middletown District, Delaware County over which Prof. A. G. C. Smith was Superintendent. And I remember with much gratefulness my first and last public school teachers, Misses Carrie V. Hamilton and Rebecca R. Crumley and Prof. Smith for their kind and frequent words to me as encouragement to continue my education after graduating from the public schools.