(CIVIL RIGHTS) RILEY JEROME R MD The Philosophy of Negro Suf

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) RILEY, JEROME R. M.D. The Philosophy of Negro Suffrage. Portrait frontispiece. 128 pages. 8vo, original red cloth, stamped in gilt on the upper cover and spine; the latter faded, sign of removal of a small label, blind stamp in the upper corner of the title-page; re-cased with new end-papers. Washington, D.C.: For the Author, 1897

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first edition, of a very unusual book, written by a black democrat. Cited in 'Origins of the New South,' page 324-325. (University of Louisiana,1951) where it is pointed out that disillusion with black political leadership opened the door to disfranchisement.