Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 234

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) GRIMKE, ARCHIBALD. The Shame of America, or the Negroes' Case Against America. 18 pages. Tall 8vo, original, printed blue wrappers, stapled. Washington D.C.: American Negro Academy, 1924
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first edition, American Negro Academy Occasional Papers no 21. Grimke traces the racism inherent in the system from the time of the founders to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Arthur Schomburg was President of the Negro Academy at this time. Other prominent members included W.E.B. Du Bois, W.P. Dabney, Kelly Miller, Carter G. Woodson, Monroe Work and Ernest E. Just.