THERE WAS ONCE A SLAVE, _The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass_ by Shirley Graham, received the sixty-five hundred dollar JULIAN MESSNER AWARD FOR THE BEST BOOK COMBATING INTOLERANCE IN AMERICA. The judges were: Carl Van Doren, Lewis Gannett, and Clifton Fadiman. Miss Graham’s work was selected from over six hundred manuscripts submitted in the contest. The original award was augmented by a grant from the Lionel Judah Tachna Memorial Foundation, established by Max Tachna in memory of his son who lost his life in the Battle of the Coral Sea. PUBLISHED BY JULIAN MESSNER, INC. 8 WEST 40TH STREET, NEW YORK 18…
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