[Rarebooks] FS: Booker T. Washington's THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO, Inscribed

[Charles Agvent]

WASHINGTON,  Booker T. THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN  NEGRO.  Boston:
Small  Maynard  1900.  Second  Edition.  This  edition,  published  in
February,  consisted  of  2000  copies as did  the  first  published 3
months  earlier. Written by the successor to Frederick Douglass as the
foremost  American black leader of his time. Born a slave,  Washington
founded  Tuskegee Institute, becoming its first president, at the  age
of  25.  This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the  front
pastedown  "To  Mr.  and  Mrs.   Alfred  T.  White,/with  kind  wishes
of/Booker  T. Washington/Mar. 31, 1901." Books inscribed by Washington
are uncommon. Mild sunning to spine. Near Fine                $2000.00

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