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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) POLITICS.
Taft Denounces Lynching, Tells Afro-
American Audience it is Cowardly Murder. President Advocates the Rope for
Lynchers.
Four-page flyer. 7
3
/
4
x 6
1
/
2
inches; paper evenly toned.
[Washington], 1912
[400/600]
A RARE PIECE OF POLITICAL DISSIMULATION
.
Taft, noted for carrying on the hateful
“Brownsville” policies of Theodore Roosevelt, was anything but the colored man’s friend. This flyer
would seem to make a claim for the endorsement of Colored leaders, with Taft supporting the 13th,
14th and 15th amendments. However, in private meetings with Southern leaders, Taft endeavored to
assure the white South that it could have a free hand in holding down black advancement, insisting
that the “strict enforcement” of the 15th amendment need not “involve the amalgamation of the
races—nor involve social association or equality” under conditions of “negro domination.”
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) WHITE, WALTER F.
Work or Fight in the South (cover
title).
8 pages. 8vo, original printed white wrappers; paper lightly and evenly toned.
New York: NAACP, 1919
[500/750]
FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING
,
AN OFFPRINT FROM THE NEW REPUBLIC OF MARCH
1, 1919
and
one of White’s earliest separately published pieces. White (1893-1955) had just joined the NAACP
in 1918, and at the invitation of his old schoolmate James Weldon Johnson came to New York to be
Johnson’s Assistant Secretary at the NAACP. He became Executive Secretary in 1931, leading the
organization until his death.
RARE
,
OCLC LOCATES ONLY ONE COPY
,
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
MICHIGAN
.
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