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(POLITICS—NEW YORK CITY.) WALKER, MAYOR JAMES “BEAU
JAMES.”
New York and the Colored Citizen. New York City is the Finest Spot in
America for the Negro.
16 pages. 8vo, original printed green wrappers, stapled; very
slight fading to the front cover.
New York: The Colored Citizens Non-Partisan Committee
for the re-election of Mayor Walker, (1929)
[350/500]
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION
.
This pamphlet features an “Address” by Fernando Q. Morton,
African American member of the Municipal Civil Service Commission; backed up with some
charts and statistics showing how much better off Negroes were with Mayor Walker. Jimmy
“Beau James” Walker was known as “the Midnight Mayor,” for his fondness for nightclubs
and showgirls uptown and down. He defeated his opponent Fiorello LaGuardia handily, but
the crash of 1929 was his undoing and La Guardia won the next time out. OCLC locates
only one copy at Columbia University’s Butler Library.
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(POLITICS.) MILLER, KELLY.
Kelly Miller’s Monographic Magazine, No
2. The Political Plight of the Negro.
24 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers; a couple
of small to the bottom margin; holes punched, probably for placement in a ring binder,
otherwise a fine, tight copy.
Washington, D.C.: Murray Brothers, 1913
[400/600]
The second of a number of monographs by Miller who was professor of sociology at Howard
University at this time. Miller explains why the “debt” to the Republican party was considered
paid by the black voters of America who effectively abandoned the party in 1912, where over
60% of the colored vote went to the Progressive Party. “It is only the political mummy who
yields everlasting allegiance to the dynasty of the Pharaohs . . . “
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