How The History Of Black New York Helped Shape The Civil Rights Movement

NEGRO MECCA

By Seth M. Scheiner

1965

First printing of this history of New York's Black population, from the end of the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, with a reflection on how that history informed the civil rights movement.

Near fine in near fine jacket.

Price: $450.00

NEGRO MECCA

"The lure of the northern city, especially New York, with its glamour and excitement attracted the mistreated, impoverished, [and[ frustrated [...] southern Negro."

Seth M. Scheiner, a white professor, advocated for and helped to found Rutgers's Livingston College, which was established with the aim of reaching under-represented students. An attractive copy of his most well-known work, it remains an important work.

The Object

First edition. New York: New York University Press, 1965. Full title: Negro Mecca: A History of the Negro in New York City, 1865-1920. 9.25'' x 6''. Original orange cloth boards. Original pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Black endpapers. 246 pages, including index. Trace rubbing and shelfwear. Else bright, clean, and sharp.

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