(CIVIL RIGHTS) TINDLEY CHARLES A ELBERT W MOORE JAMES S STEM

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) TINDLEY, CHARLES A, ELBERT W. MOORE, JAMES S. STEMONS ET AL. A Call for Conference and Mass Meeting on the American Negro Question. (drop title) Small 4to sheet, folded to form four pages, printed on three sides; fore-edge and portion of top heavily foxed, not affecting the text. Np, 1910

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first and only printing, very scarce. This group of prominent Philadelphia African American ministers call for a "two-day conference" in June of 1910 to protest the discrimination against American Negroes and discuss strategies to improve their condition. The organizers were all pastors and civil rights activists from Philadelphia's churches. Tindley was a composer of gospel music, and author of "I'll Overcome Some Day," which became "We Shall Overcome" and "Stand by Me," re-written and recorded by Ben E. King and the Drifters. OCLC locates only three copies.