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New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xii, 236 pages of text including an index. Original blue hardcover binding is rubbed at the extremities, with a minor cup ring on the front cover, and other minor shelfwear. No dustjacket, but protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. The front inner hinge is weakened. There is moderate to heavy soiling and staining scattered throughout the text, most of which is in the margins, but some of which is in the text. A few pages have creases at the corners. The front endpapers are stamped with a previous owner's name: J.A. Yeatman. This is a highly uncommon first edition of this publication..
Half a Man. The Status of the Negro in New York by Mary White Ovington
by Mary White Ovington
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London, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911. First edition. Publisher's gilt-lettered dark blue cloth, without dust jacket. Spine partially cocked, vertical strip of old paper residue to upper cover, light foxing to endpapers; else very good and clean.
Civil rights reformer, Mary White Ovington, caucasian, was a founder of the N.A.A.C.P. "Ovington began in 1904 a study of black Manhattan. Focusing particularly on housing and employment problems, her work resulted in 1911 in publication of Half a Man. The Status of the Negro in New York. In the course of her research, Ovington met New York's black leaders, learned from them about community problems, began a correspondence with black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, tried unsuccessfully to establish a settlement house for blacks, and lived for a time as the only white in a black tenement." (NAW, Modern Period, p517)
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