Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 264

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) MILLER, KELLY. The Disgrace of Democracy, An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson. 18 pages. 8vo, original printed grey-green wrappers, somewhat darkened. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1917
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first edition. Miller strongly criticizes the United States government's obvious hypocrisy, citing the government's tacit approval of racial prejudice in the face of the loyalty and devotion of Negroes again and again in their country's history. This was published in 1917 when no less than 350,000 black soldiers who would serve in France and Belgium, would return to a totally unchanged and ungrateful country .