What the Negro Wants.
Logan, Rayford W., ed. What the Negro Wants. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1944.
xxiii, 352p. 23cm. Gray cloth with titling in black and white on the spine; dust jacket.
First edition. Review copy.
Address label of Paul Robeson on the front cover pastedown, signed by Eslanda Goode Robeson with the inscription, "I earned this copy, I reviewed the book for the Springfield Republican Jan 15, 1945." With Robeson's extensive penciled notes, underlining and marginalia.
Contents: The Negro wants first-class citizenship / by Rayford W. Logan -- My evolving program for Negro freedom / by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois -- What the Negro wants and how to get it: the inward power of the masses / by Leslie Pinckney Hill -- The Negro has always wanted the four freedoms / by Charles H. Wesley -- The Negro wants full equality / by Roy Wilkins -- March on Washington movement presents program for the Negro / by A. Philip Randolph -- One American problem and a possible solution / by Willard S. Townsend -- Freedom -through victory in war and peace / by Doxey A. Wilkerson -- Race relations in the United States: a summary / by Gordon B. Hancock -- "Certain unalienable rights" / by Mary McLeod Bethune -- The Negro wants full participation in the American democracy / by Frederick D. Patterson -- The Caucasian problem / by George S. Schuyler -- My America / by Langston Hughes -- Count us in / by Sterling A. Brown -- Who's who.
Eslanda Goode Robeson (1895-1965) was the wife of famed actor, singer and civil rights leader, Paul Robeson. Much has been written about the great legacy of the Robesons from their professional lives, to their political activism that left them black listed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Prior owner's embossed seal on the front free endpaper, one corner bumped bottom edge of front cover bumped.
A near fine copy of an important work on civil rights made unique by the annotations of one of its leaders, Eslanda Goode Robeson.
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