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(EDUCATION.) WHITE, WALTER.
Anti-Negro Propaganda in School
Textbooks.
18 pages. 8vo, original printed white self-wrappers; covers lightly toned.
New York: NAACP, 1939
[300/400]
The NAACP’s Walter White takes on the school textbooks in American public schools that not only
left out, or re-wrote whole chapters of American history, but deliberately added in common mythology
about the Negro: “the Negro is a child-like race with a disposition to laugh at his troubles.” He also
points out the role of the movies in perpetuating these myths. A very early concerted effort to address
this combined crime of omission and crime of commission, aspects of which continue to this day
THE FREEDOM RIDERS
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MISSISSIPPI.
Group of ten large sheets with original pen and brush
drawings by Tracy Sugarman from his book “Stranger at the Gates, a Summer
in Mississippi”
[together with] eight boards of various size, with illustrations as they
appeared in the book. 19 x 12
1
⁄
2
inches; a couple with slight wrinkling at the edge, not
affecting the images at all.
CAPTIONS BY SUGARMAN ON MOST OF THE PIECES
. Should be
seen.
Mississippi, Vp, 1955
[2,500/3,500]
In the summer of 1964, college students and others from various walks of life travelled by bus to
Mississippi to aid in a massive attempt to register voters—they were called the “freedom riders”. Over
a thousand people took part, establishing “freedom schools,” where first time voters were helped
through the paperwork necessary to get around old time Jim Crow laws still in effect in the deep
South. Many were beaten, and others were arrested and jailed. Tracy Sugarman (1921-2013), well-
known illustrator, chronicler of D-Day to the Civil Rights and literally hundreds of books, recorded
this experience in his book “Stranger at the Gates.”
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