[Rarebooks] FS: T. S. Stribling Archive: "I should not discuss the Negro situation in the South"

[Charles Agvent]

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STRIBLING,  T.  S.     ARCHIVE:   1  TYPED  LETTER  SIGNED  (TLS), 1
AUTOGRAPHED  NOTE SIGNED (ANS), 1 AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS), and
1 TYPED MANUSCRIPT.  Clifton, TN: The holograph note and letter, dated
1950  and  1960,  are to different autograph requesters.  The  lengthy
(@450  words)  and undated, but certainly earlier,  single-page  TYPED
LETTER  SIGNED is to another correspondent about speaking engagements.
In  part:  "I  have never given a lecture. My nearest approach  to  it
have  been  a  few addresses I gave before schools....  I  should  not
discuss  the  Negro  situation in the South as that topic  is  tabooed
down  here,  but  I  think it would be very  interesting  to  northern
audiences,  especially to audiences who are interested in social  work
and  development."  The  typed manuscript, signed in  print  with  his
initials,  is an interesting biographical statement in which Stribling
describes  his  time  with  revolutionists in South  America  and  his
"study  of  the new Negro situation in the North caused by the  recent
migrations  from the South.  Upon the data of these studies I will  in
time  proceed  to  complete a trilogy of novels  depicting  the  whole
situation of the Negro race."  Near Fine                       $350.00

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