Negro Year Book: Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1912 | Stone Work Archives 2026 Edition Hardcover – Large Print, March 23, 2026

Before his revolutionary collaborations with W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, or authoring the Negro Year Book, Monroe Nathan Work served as Professor of Pedagogy at Georgia State Industrial College — today Savannah State University. Appointed in 1903 by the institution’s first president, Richard R. Wright, Sr., it was here on the shores of the Historic Stone Home, alongside his wife and lifelong research partner Florence Hendrickson Work, that his pioneering scholarship took shape. From Savannah to Niagara, from Chicago to Tuskegee, Monroe and Florence’s intellectual labors and dedication to educating the facts honored their roots as they laid the foundations of Black consciousness.Their family scholarship still endures today, rooted in fact, memory, and resilience. Both Monroe and Florence were children of American chattel slavery, and many in their family — notably Florence’s mother, Harriet Frances ‘Gannah’ Bird Hendrickson, pictured in this edition recreating with Monroe, and Florence in the waters behind the Historic Stone Home — were born enslaved. Gannah had been enslaved near present-day Tybee Island, her labor loaned to work on the very land where her descendants still reside — an ode to their enduring legacies of family, love, and cultural preservation.The Stone Work Archives is a multi-generational family record and repository preserving the primary historical documents, research, and literature of Monroe, Florence Work, and their family — educators, scholars, and leaders all, committed to preserving the Black experience through fact, scholarship, and care. This volume, recognized by scholars worldwide as culturally significant, and noted as a pillar of the knowledge base of civilization is part of their lasting legacy. From the family of Monroe and Florence Work, thank you for helping keep this knowledge alive, and for reading the Negro Year Book. Read more