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

[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 Edition 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 the spine. Near Fine. (#006585)        $2,000.00

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