Our Stake in the South

New York: Sidney Hillman Foundation, 1956. Very good.. 11,[1]pp. Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Mild creasing. Minor toning and dust soiling. An address by Charles S. Johnson, the first Black president of Fisk University, before a convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1956 on subject of education and desegregation in the South, two years after the decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. He denounces the "little men of less noble designs and foreshortened vision" who have appeared to oppose desegregation, and calls for unity of the nation with Southern Black workers and students, "in building mutual tolerance and respect, and an acceptable way of life, compatible with the principles reaffirmed and made final by the court." Johnson was an important Southern civil rights leader in the first half of the 20th century, but passed away suddenly shortly after giving this speech. OCLC locates three individually catalogued copies.