(WOMENS HISTORY) Dayse Walker Booker If I Were A Negro Man I

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(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Dayse Walker-Booker. If I Were A Negro Man In a Time Like This. [6] pages including illustrated title page. Octavo, 8 X 4¾ inches, original printed wrappers, moderate wear and splitting along fold; moderate wear and a bit of staple rust to contents. No place, circa 1918

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Dayse Dean Walker (1875-1953) of Galesburg, IL came to prominence in 1905 as the founder of Young Colored Women's Protective Association in Indianapolis; she became Mrs. Dayse Walker-Booker in 1910. She toured the nation as a speaker, and delivered this particular talk several times in 1917 and 1918 in St. Louis and elsewhere. It is a response to a column by popular Black journalist Roscoe Conklin Simmons (nephew of Booker T. Washington) titled "Negro Patriotism," regarding World War One. She agrees with Simmons that in time of war, the Negro must stand up bravely for the patriotic cause, as they had since Crispus Attucks: "Patriotism unsung and uncrowned, perhaps; patriotism uninspired by West Point training, but patriotism just the same--patriotism, genuine, spontaneous, unselfish, but blood, drenching from the commons of Boston to the Mexican border. . . . I know you, brave Black brethren of mine; I know your conflicting emotions, the trying ordeals through which you pass; expected to play the part of men, and denied the rights of men. . . . You've always been faithful before--in peace or war--keep your record up." No other examples traced in OCLC or at auction.