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(RESORTS)
Map of Idlewild
Resort in Michigan, with 8 Real Photo
postcards and four 3 x 5 photographs
of the famous African American
resort.
Map, 12 x 9
1
/
2
inches; creases where
folded; paper toned.
CONDITION VARIES
,
SHOULD BE SEEN
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Michigan, 1940
[300/400]
SCARCE GROUP PHOTOS OF THE NOTED
AFRICAN AMERICAN RESORT
.
Founded in
1912, the resort was a haven for African
American families searching for a vacation site
that would not subject them to the “Jim
Crow” segregation encountered in the North as
well as South.
EARLY BLACK RADICAL ACTIVIST
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(SOCIALISM.) WOODBEY,REV.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
What to
Do and How to Do It. Socialism vs
Capitalism.
Published as No. 40 of
Wayland’s Monthly. [1-5], 6-44 pages.
Small 8vo, original pictorial wrappers
with a portrait of the author on the front
cover; light wear.
Girard, KS: J.A. Wayland, 1903
[800/1,200]
The Rev. George Washington Woodbey
(1854-1937) was born into slavery in
Tennessee. In 1902 he became fascinated with
the writings of Edward Bellamy, author of
Looking Backward (1888), renounced the pul-
pit and began lecturing on socialism as the
answer to the race problems of America. He
was the earliest African American to do so, and
the first to write a socialist tract specifically
aimed at the African American working man.
Anticipating the struggles of the 1970’s
Woodbey was repeatedly jailed and beaten by
California police. Following a particularly nasty encounter and beating, Woodbey brought charges
against a particular San Diego policeman, but an all-white jury of local businessmen dismissed the
case. He packed a huge Los Angeles hall to refute Booker T. Washington as a tool of Capitalism, and
said of Washington that he was a “gentleman and an educator,” but that “he [has] all the ability to
make a good servant of Capitalism by educating other servants of Capitalism.”
QUITE SCARCE
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OCLC LOCATES ONLY FIVE COPIES
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