Negro Students & Their Colleges by J. Irving E. Scott, Ph.D. (1901-?)

Boston: Meador Publishing Company, (1949). First Edition. 179pp. 8 x 5½ inches. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titling; all edges tinted. Signed by author on dedication page. Some fading to spine; very good.

Study of African American college educational opportunities and student preparatory requirements, signed by its author, J. Irving E. Scott, Ph.D., the Dean of Alcorn A.&M. College (HBCU) in Mississippi. Includes reviews of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), both Junior and Senior Colleges, and of interracial colleges and universities.  A native of Jamaica and a graduate of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, Scott was the author of numerous books. At Alcorn in 1950, Scott co-founded The Negro Educational Review.