(POLITICS NEW YORK CITY) WALKER MAYOR JAMES BEAU JAMES New

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(POLITICS--NEW YORK CITY.) WALKER, MAYOR JAMES "BEAU JAMES." New York and the Colored Citizen. New York City is the Finest Spot in America for the Negro. 16 pages. 8vo, original printed green wrappers, stapled; very slight fading to the front cover. New York: The Colored Citizens Non-Partisan Committee for the re-election of Mayor Walker, (1929)

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first and only edition. This pamphlet features an "Address" by Fernando Q. Morton, African American member of the Municipal Civil Service Commission; backed up with some charts and statistics showing how much better off Negroes were with Mayor Walker. Jimmy "Beau James" Walker was known as "the Midnight Mayor," for his fondness for nightclubs and showgirls uptown and down. He defeated his opponent Fiorello LaGuardia handily, but the crash of 1929 was his undoing and La Guardia won the next time out. OCLC locates only one copy at Columbia University's Butler Library.