What the Negro Thinks. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1929.
Early Printing, no "First Edition" statement. William Siegel dustjacket art. Moton, "the principal of Tuskegee Institute and the successor of Booker T. Washington as the recognized leader of his people, tells in this candid straight forward book what are the thoughts that rush through the mind of the Negro when he contemplates the attitude of the average white man in America toward his race". This copy with ownership signature, ink address and ex-libris stamp of Civil Rights leader Errold D. Collymore (1883 - 1972), the first president of the White Plains chapter of the NAACP and known as 'Westchester's Martin Luther King'. Collymore, who grew up in Barbados, British West Indies, came to the United States in 1912, attended Howard University and became a dentist. In 1927 he integrated the White Plains Unitarian Church in New York and later became its President and worked tirelessly to improve the social situation of African-Americans in his community. Near Fine but for some pencil notations and underlining presumably made by Collymore, in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow chips, modest darkening, small stain at front panel.
Price: $250.00