1929 TUSKEGEE. What the Negro Thinks. Inscribed from Tuskeegee President to Hampton Institute Major. Manuscript A very nicely preserved set

A very nicely preserved set of the first edition of a landmark work

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Printed by John Jones

though very solid and crisp on interior with some scattered foxing as shown

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1929 TUSKEGEE. What the Negro Thinks. Inscribed from Tuskeegee President to Hampton Institute Major. Manuscript A very nicely preserved setA superb first edition of R. R. Moton's work on the state of Negro self consciousness in the 1920's. He was the successor to Booker T. Washington and was, in the same mold, of the mind that the best pathway forward for black America was charity and being successful enough to warrant mutual respect. He was deeply respected by Civil Rights leaders such as Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King Jr, but seen as week by more militant strains of the