Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 243

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(HISTORY.) Ross D. Brown. Afro-American World Almanac: Feats, Facts, Fears and Faults of a Great Race. 112 pages. 8vo, red printed wrappers, minor wear; minimal wear to contents. [Chicago], 1943 [1945]
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The author was an inventor, industrialist, socialist, and minister. Among its dozens of sections are a list of great dates in Black history; a list of "Negro Inventors and their Patents" (with the author listed third); "Some Fine White Friends"; "Things They Don't Want Us To Know"; a diatribe against "Foolish Funerals"; a summary of inter-racial marriage laws; and much more. This appears to be a second edition. The more common first edition, also copyrighted 1943, bears a different subtitle: "Afro-American World Almanac: What Do You Know About Your Race?" This edition includes a few entries updated through 1944 and one from January 1945 (see page 7).