AN ISSUE RARELY ADDRESSED
BY WASHINGTON
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) WASHINGTON,
BOOKER T.
An Open Letter by Booker
T. Washington of Tuskegee, Alabama
upon “Lynchings in the S o u t h .”
Repr inted from the Montgomery
Adver tiser, The Birmingham Age-
Herald, The Florida Times-Union, The
New Orleans Times Democrat.
8 pages,
stapled. Small, almost square 8vo, original
white wrappers with decorative border; a
few small, sprinkled ink-stains to the rear
cover; also several small pieces of old cel-
lotape, unnecessarily (no tears or breaks are
noted) attached near the spine, not seriously
affecting the text in any way.
Tuskegee: Tuskegee Print, 1901
[3,500/5,000]
A RARE AND CONTROVERSIAL PAMPHLET
off-
print of an article simultaneously appearing in a number of newspapers throughout the South. After
an inordinate number of lynchings had taken place in just the first six months of the year, there arose
a hue and cry for America’s best-known black man to take a stand. Washington did so, in his “Open
Letter” which he had published in a number of major newspapers in the South. In it, he declares that
he loves the South as much as any white man, and does not wish to have anything cast the South in
a bad light. Washington argues that only a small percentage of the lynchings were for the crime of
rape, while the larger part were for other crimes, skirting the issue of whether any of the lynchings were
just or not. It does seem as though his larger point was that lynching was reflecting badly on the
South, and that the South needed to remedy the problem.
OCLC LOCATES FOUR COPIES
.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) WILLIAMS,
ROBERT.
The Crusader.
Volume 5,
number 4; Volume 6, number 2, Volume
9, numbers 1-5 and Volume 10, number
2. Together 9 issues, small 8vo, averaging
10 to 20 pages each.
Cuba and China, 1964
[400/600]
I
SSUES WERE PUBLISHED INTERMITTENTLY
AND ARE SCARCE
.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) WILLIAMS,
ROBERT.
Robert Williams.
photo-
graphic poster,15
3
⁄
8
x 19 inches,linen-backed.
Philadelphia: Lawrence Henry, 1968
[500/750]
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