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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) “RED SUMMER.” (DU BOIS, W.E.B.)
“The Race Riots
in Their International Aspect. A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Claris
Edwin Silcox in the Congregational Church, Newport, Rhode Island, August 3,
1919.
23 pages. 12mo, original printed self wrappers; front cover with a small diagonal chip
from the bottom front cover; rear cover discolored; internally clean.
[Newport] “Printed by Request,” 1919
[350/500]
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION
.
Claris Edwin Silcox (1888-1961) was a Congregationalist min-
ister who often preached on the issues of the day. He read this sermon on August 3, 1919 just
weeks after hearing W.E.B. Du Bois speak in Newport on the riots of that summer. Silcox
defends the Negro explaining that like the Israelites under Pharaoh, the American Negro had
simply had enough of injustice and inequality. Silcox quotes Du Bois at length, who said that
“I have sometimes heard southern negroes (sic) say that the nice whites treat them alright, but
that the troubles came from the poor whites. So too in the North many negroes say ‘he rich
whites treat us alright . . . but it’s the white laboring man in the unions who discriminate
against us.’ I want to tell you when they say that, they are backing the wrong horse.” Du Bois
felt that a union of the working class would be the solution. Only one copy located by OCLC
at Harvard Divinity School
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(CIVIL RIGHTS—SEGREGATION.)
Colored Men.
Metal sign, painted black
with white lettering; signs of age and abrasion; two holes with old rivets for hanging.
Southern United States, circa 1930’s-1950’s
[2,500/3,500]
A rare survival from the period of forced segregation in the United States. Most of these sign,
that were found throughout the segregated South, were destroyed after the Civil Rights acts of
the 1960’s.
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