[Rarebooks] FS: THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO Inscribed by Booker T. Washington

[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. 		$2,000.00

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