[Rarebooks] FS: Lawrence Dennis Mixed-Race Child Preacher/Adult Fascist Cabinet Photo

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Lonnie Lawrence Dennis Mixed Race Child Preacher Cabinet Photo Portrait

The note- “Lonnie Lawrence Dennis - age 6 yrs (illegible) baby  
preacher” is scrawled in pencil on the back. Lawrence Dennis, born in  
Atlanta in 1893, was a mixed-race child preacher who later became a  
diplomat, author, and infamous American fascist. As a child preacher  
he became nationally known- “At a revival we used to have, I remember  
this little boy was preaching. He used to wear a little white robe. He  
ran our revival and that’s when I joined the church,” recalled an  
African-American resident of Buxton, Iowa of his 10-day stay there.

But when he entered his teenage years Dennis ditched his mixed-race  
heritage and his evangelism. Wikipedia notes- “Following a notable  
career as a child evangelist, he was sent to Phillips Exeter Academy  
and then to Harvard University. He was of mixed race, but he concealed  
that as a teenager and instead passed as a white man until his  
death—even his wife and daughters did not know. During World War I,  
Dennis commanded a company of military police in France. He graduated  
from Harvard in 1920 and entered the foreign service. The turning  
point of his life came when he served in Nicaragua. He resigned from  
the foreign service in disgust at the US intervention there against  
Sandino's rebellion. In 1941, Life called Dennis "America's No. 1  
intellectual Fascist." In 1944, he was indicted in a group that ranged  
from isolationists to pro-Nazi agitators, in a sedition prosecution  
under the Smith Act. After seven months of proceedings the case ended  
in a mistrial, after presiding judge died of a heart attack. In his  
later years, Dennis repudiated his views of the 1930s and early 1940s,  
became a critic of militarism and the Cold War. Alec Marsh suggests  
that, "Dennis will find his place in the disenchanted anti-liberal  
black company of Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, and George Schuyler”.

Cabinet Photo. 4.25x6.5. Worn, scuffed, one small corner chip and two  
large corner chunks missing. $250

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