Try and Be Somebody: The Story of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason

Try and Be Somebody, a biography of the inspiring life of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason, documents the life of the first president of Bluefield State College, Bluefield, West Virginia, and an early 20th century leader of Black education. Though Dickason's remarkable achievements have been largely ignored by history, the man comes to life with this narrative.

Dickason was born two decades after the end of the Civil War and grew up in a log cabin on Peters Mountain near Lindside, West Virginia. He l...