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THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN CABINET MEMBER (CIVIL RIGHTS.) WEAVER, ROBERT. The Negro Ghetto. 404 pages. Thick 8vo, original cloth; bookplate of Henry Lee Moon; in a well worn dust jacket. inscribed and signed by weaver. New York: Harcourt, 1948
first edition of the author's second book, inscribed by him: 'For Henry Lee Moon with admiration and regards, Robert C. Weaver, 1948.' Weaver was the first African American to be named a cabinet member of any American administration. In 1966, Lyndon Baines Johnson appointed him Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
