(CIVIL RIGHTS) Zora Neale Hurston My Most Humiliating Jim Cr

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Zora Neale Hurston. "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience," in an issue of the Negro Digest, pages 25-26. 98, [2] pages including wrappers. 8vo, original color wrappers, minor wear, with subscription card bound in; minimal dampstaining. Chicago, June 1944

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First appearance of a short essay by the renowned novelist and anthropologist, in which she recounts a visit to a white New York gastroenterologist who gave her a cursory examination in the supply closet of his opulent office. The essay has been frequently reprinted in collections on Black access to health care, and of Hurston's work. The issue also features an essay by Langston Hughes, "Down Under in Harlem," pages 7-9.