(EDUCATION WASHINGTON BOOKER T) The Negro and the Solid Sou

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(EDUCATION--WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.) The Negro and the "Solid South" . . . Being Comments on "The Basis for Ascendancy" by Edgar Gardner Murphy. 12 pages. Tall 8vo, original printed stiff paper wrappers; paper and cover toned, the wrapper with a diagonal chip at the bottom edge. Cheyney, PA: Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Colored Race, [1909]

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first separate edition, first appearing in the pages of the "independent." Washington talks of his recent trip through the South and expressed his pleasure with what he saw as a growing number of young white men who were in favor of the "ascendancy" of the Negro in the South. Given the time (1909) and what had been happening in the South, one might think Washington was living in an alternate universe.