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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) "RED SUMMER." (DU BOIS, W.E.B.) "The Race Riots in Their International Aspect. A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Claris Edwin Silcox in the Congregational Church, Newport, Rhode Island, August 3, 1919. 23 pages. 12mo, original printed self wrappers; front cover with a small diagonal chip from the bottom front cover; rear cover discolored; internally clean. [Newport] "Printed by Request," 1919
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first and only edition. Claris Edwin Silcox (1888-1961) was a Congregationalist minister who often preached on the issues of the day. He read this sermon on August 3, 1919 just weeks after hearing W.E.B. Du Bois speak in Newport on the riots of that summer. Silcox defends the Negro explaining that like the Israelites under Pharaoh, the American Negro had simply had enough of injustice and inequality. Silcox quotes Du Bois at length, who said that "I have sometimes heard southern negroes (sic) say that the nice whites treat them alright, but that the troubles came from the poor whites. So too in the North many negroes say the rich whites treat us alright. . . but it's the white laboring man in the unions who discriminate against us.' I want to tell you when they say that, they are backing the wrong horse." Du Bois felt that a union of the working class would be the solution. Only one copy located by OCLC at Harvard Divinity School.