Author: JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON.
Title: Black Manhattan.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. (ii), i-xx, 284, xxi-xxxiv,(i); illustrated endpapers, portrait frontispiece of Ira Aldridge, 13 photographic plates in text, index, original decorated cloth, title lettered in red on spine and front board, top edge brown, other edges uncut, very good copy. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938) was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. In this important work he uses his experiences and his skills as historian, social scientist, and the reporter to trace the New York black experience from the earliest settlements on Chatham Square during the pre-revolutionary period to the triumphant achievements of Harlem in the 1920s.
Keywords: American Culture Civil Rights African Americans Literature James Weldon Johnson
Title: Black Manhattan.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. (ii), i-xx, 284, xxi-xxxiv,(i); illustrated endpapers, portrait frontispiece of Ira Aldridge, 13 photographic plates in text, index, original decorated cloth, title lettered in red on spine and front board, top edge brown, other edges uncut, very good copy. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938) was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. In this important work he uses his experiences and his skills as historian, social scientist, and the reporter to trace the New York black experience from the earliest settlements on Chatham Square during the pre-revolutionary period to the triumphant achievements of Harlem in the 1920s.
Keywords: American Culture Civil Rights African Americans Literature James Weldon Johnson
Price: AUD 175.00 = appr. US$ 121.08 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 101735
- Book number: 101735