"Sunshine and Shadows" by W.E. Dancer (2 of 2) Viola Muse Transcription Zariah Grant Encoding and edition Brady Benefiel and Amelia Dixon

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https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/48 USA Florida Jacksonville Jacksonville Historical Society Viola Muse Collection (1959-18) Folder 7, item 4 A second version of notes regarding Sunshine and Shadows by W.E. Dancer (see https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/47)

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Sunshine and Shadows ^is a book of Easter, Christmas, and Exhibitionexhibition Speecesspeeches for any occasion, by the late W.E. Dancer, See Sunshine and Shadows. Note that a book of Easter, Christmas, and exhibition speeches for any occasion is actually part of the title (Sunshine and Shadows: A Concert Book of Easter, Christmas and Exhibition Speeches for Any Occasion). The insertion of is (see transcription) has separated this phrase gramatically from the rest of the title, so we represent it here as normal text. the famous Poetpoet &and Humoristhumorist,. is a book Prof.Professor Dancer was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute, Ala.Alabama. State Grand Master of the Florida Jurisdiction, Mosaic Templars of America.

The fifth edition of this little book met with great success, it has been distributed all over the United States in rural schools and colleges, about 10,000 copies in all. The author has read before 25,000 people at Philadelphia at the National Baptist Convention, and has received compliments from such men as His Excellency, ColColonel Roose–velt, HonHonorable Seth Lowe, HonHonorable John H. Dillard, Dr. Booker ^T. Washington, Dr. E.C. Morris, Dr. R.H. Boyd, Mrs. Williams H. Baldwin, Jr., and many others of such refined distinction.

The writer was a strong believer in his race and a servant of humanity.

His greatest hope in writing 'Sunshine<lb/> <pb n="2" facs="../images/jhs-195918-07-04-02.jpg"/> and Shadows" is that it may have a tendency to bring about better treatment of to his people, and a better feeling between the races. In all, he wrote 88 separate pieces of poetry. Copy first &and last verses of "Dey Treat Us Wrong" The above note is circled with an arrow pointing to the four blank lines drawn at the bottom of the page, upon which the mentioned text was never added. The above note is circled with an arrow pointing to four blank lines at the bottom of the page, upon which the mentioned text was never added. The first and last verses of "Dey Treat Us Wrong" is given below.

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