first edition Softcover
1935 · (Washington, D. C.
by DAVIS, John P.
(Washington, D. C.: National Negro Congress, 1935. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 31pp. Stapled gray pictorial self-wrappers printed in black reproducing a portrait of Frederick Douglass and printing a four-line quote from a letter by Douglass on front cover. Slightly rubbed at extremities, with a few small soil spots on rear cover, else a near fine copy. Prints a two-page introduction by A. Philip Randolph, National President of International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and future President of the National Negro Congress, entitled "Why a National Negro Congress?," followed by John P. Davis' essay, "Let Us Build a National Negro (truncated)