Afro American History: The Modern Era. A Pioneering Chronicle of the Black People in Twentieth-Century America.

APTHEKER, Herbert.

$150.00

Item Number: 134261

New York: The Citadel Press, 1971.

First edition of the prolific American Marxist historian’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Jan 1972 For Mrs. Janette Harris – with warmest regards & best wishes, Herbert Aptheker.” The recipient, Janette Harris was a fellow social rights activist who was expelled from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she and five other students were arrested for attempting to desegregate an all-White lunch counter. She went on to serve as a campaign manager for the Carter-Mondale reelection campaign, research associate for the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, a faculty member at what is now the University of the District of Columbia. With Harris’ ownership signature to the pastedown. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

Apetheker's Afro American History: The Modern Era deals with the first seven decades of the twentieth century and includes examinations of the meaning of national consciousness in Afro-American history; of the ideas and role of W.E.B. Dubois; of the impact of the Niagara movement; of World Wars I and II; of Black college students in the 1920s; of legal frameups in the 1950s and 1960s; and detailed studies of the uprisings in the 1960s that shook the United States from one end to the other.