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    • W.E.B. DuBois Pamphlet with accompanying letter
      Jul. 26, 2018

      W.E.B. DuBois Pamphlet with accompanying letter

      Est: $400 - $600

      A rare pamphlet written by W.E.B. DuBois, with accompanying letter. Published in 1956, the pamphlet recounts the story of Benjamin Franklin. A signed letter from the Secretary of the World Council of Peace describing the publishing of this pamphlet is included. Tear at upper edge of letter. From the collection of Michael Mitchell, who is the son of Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. (known as the 101st United States Senator, considered the principal architect of the civil rights legislation of the 1950s and 1960s, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from United States President Jimmy Carter, and former Ambassador to the 75th General Assembly of the United Nations) and Juanita Jackson Mitchell (first African American woman to practice law in Maryland, filed lawsuits which resulted in the desegregation of schools, beaches and places of public accommodation in Maryland), the nephew of Congressman Parren J. Mitchell (the first African American congressman elected from the State of Maryland, founding member and former Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus), and the grandson of Dr. Lillie May Carroll Jackson (known as the mother of the civil rights movement). For four generations, members of the Mitchell family have played important roles in American politics, civil rights, education and culture. The family includes many prominent and accomplished civil rights activists who were instrumental in effecting change in their own communities, as well as at a national and international level, including doing work that was key to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

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    • W. E. B. DuBois
      Aug. 15, 2012

      W. E. B. DuBois

      Est: $600 - $800

      W. E. B. DuBois Influential black writer and educator (1868-1963) who helped transform the prevailing view of his people's role in America. TLS, one page, 8.5 x 5.5, Atlanta University Department of Sociology letterhead, November 21, 1908. Letter to historian Prof. Paul Darmstadter of the University of Goettingen. In full: "I thank you very much for the copy of your History of the United States, which I shall read with very great interest. I am sending you herewith a few trifles which may be of passing interest." In very good condition, with scattered creases and light foxing, a vertical fold passing through a single letter of the signature, light uniform toning, a punch hole to the left side, and pencil notations to the upper right. While at Atlanta University, DuBois published a groundbreaking academic paper, The Philadelphia Negro, the first scientific sociological study performed in the US.

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