Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 161

Price Realized: $ 570
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Mebane, George Allen. "The Negro Problem" as seen and discussed by Southern White Men in Conference, at Montgomery, Alabama; With Criticisms by the Northern Press. Prepared and Compiled for the National Afro-American Council by Geo. Allen Mebane of North Carolina. [cover title]. 40 pages. 8vo, original printed stiff paper wrappers, slightly discolored; faint damp-stain to the outer margin of the first few pages. New York: Alliance Publishing, 1900

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first and only edition. All the solutions involved drastic reduction or elimination of the rights granted blacks, including the 15th amendment. Following a description of the Conference are a number of articles extracted from the northern press, including one by the noted black journalist John Bruce, "Bruce Grit."