(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION RECONSTRUCTION) WHITE GEORGE H Defen

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONSTRUCTION.) WHITE, GEORGE H. Defense of the Negro Race--Charges Answered. Speech of George H. White of North Carolina in the House of Representatives. January 29, 1901 (cover title). 14 pages. Tall 8vo, original self-wrappers, and exceptional copy, with the original mailing envelope. Washington, 1901

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George Henry White (1852-1918), lawyer and member of Congress, was born to Mary, a slave and Wiley F. White, a white man from Bern, South Carolina. White graduated from Howard University in 1877, and returned to North Carolina where he became involved in local affairs and politics. In 1880, he won a seat to the state house of representatives. Elected to Congress in 1896 and again in 1898, White was the only black member of Congress. As such, he fought tirelessly for civil rights. But by 1900, with the re-ascendancy of the old "Dixiecrats," things had worsened for the Southern Negro. White opens this, his farewell speech to Congress with these words: "I want to enter a plea for the colored man, the colored woman, the colored boy, and the colored girl of this country." White goes on to address lynching and the numerous injustices visited on the Southern Negro. After his retirement from politics, White founded an African-American housing development in New Jersey called Whitesboro. Not in the Blockson Collection