1929 TUSKEGEE. What the Negro Thinks. Inscribed from Tuskeegee President to Hampton Institute Major. Manuscript Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas

When they're pulling a pint

& permit you to rejoice in beholding the fruit of your labors

And the third on particular battles

Printed by John Jones

1929 TUSKEGEE. What the Negro Thinks. Inscribed from Tuskeegee President to Hampton Institute Major. Manuscript Eric MetaxasA superb first edition of R. R. Moton's work on the state of Negro self consciousness in the 1920's. He was the successor to Booker T. Washington and was, in the same mold, of the mind that the best pathway forward for black America was charity and being successful enough to warrant mutual respect. He was deeply respected by Civil Rights leaders such as Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King Jr, but seen as week by more militant strains of the