First edition of this landmark anthology of African American literature edited and with an introduction by Herbert Hill and featuring contributions by James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright, LeRoi Jones, Ann Petry, Chester Himes, Katherine Dunham, John Hope Franklin, and many others. Includes an excerpt from Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray. 8vo (6” x 8.5”), hardcover with printed dust jacket, 617 pages. Published in 1963 by Alfred A. Knopf. Warmly inscribed by Hill in the front free endpaper: “For June—With appreciation for her help and many kindnesses, + With Much Affection/Herbert,” dated May 1963. The recipient, June Shagaloff Alexander (1928-2022), was among the most influential but least celebrated strategists of the modern Civil Rights Movement. As the NAACP's first National Director of Education, she played a central role in implementing school desegregation following Brown v. Board of Education. Herbert Hill (1924-2004), for decades the NAACP's Labor Secretary, was one of the organization's leading advocates for racial equality in organized labor. Contemporary records and later scholarship document the close professional relationship between Hill and Shagaloff within the NAACP leadership, a collaboration implicit in the contemporaneous inscription. Binding somewhat shaken. Light rubbing and chipping to dust jacket. Minor foxing to front endpapers.
A significant association copy linking two major figures in the postwar NAACP and the broader civil rights movement.
First edition of this landmark anthology of African American literature edited and with an introduction by Herbert Hill and featuring contributions by James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright, LeRoi Jones, Ann Petry, Chester Himes, Katherine Dunham, John Hope Franklin, and many others. Includes an excerpt from Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray. 8vo (6” x 8.5”), hardcover with printed dust jacket, 617 pages. Published in 1963 by Alfred A. Knopf. Warmly inscribed by Hill in the front free endpaper: “For June—With appreciation for her help and many kindnesses, + With Much Affection/Herbert,” dated May 1963. The recipient, June Shagaloff Alexander (1928-2022), was among the most influential but least celebrated strategists of the modern Civil Rights Movement. As the NAACP's first National Director of Education, she played a central role in implementing school desegregation following Brown v. Board of Education. Herbert Hill (1924-2004), for decades the NAACP's Labor Secretary, was one of the organization's leading advocates for racial equality in organized labor. Contemporary records and later scholarship document the close professional relationship between Hill and Shagaloff within the NAACP leadership, a collaboration implicit in the contemporaneous inscription. Binding somewhat shaken. Light rubbing and chipping to dust jacket. Minor foxing to front endpapers.
A significant association copy linking two major figures in the postwar NAACP and the broader civil rights movement.
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