Signed 1930 Edition copy of "What The Negro Thinks

Signed 1930 Edition copy of "What The Negro Thinks" by Robert Russa Moton, Garden City: Doubleday, Doran. Hardback Book: 267 pages, 11 chapters. The book is signed in 1933 by Robert Moton "To Mr. Grafton S. Wilcox, With warmest regards..." Grafton Stiles Wilcox was the Managing Editor of the New York Herald-Tribune at the time. The author, an African American writer and educator says: " 'Know the Negro!' When a white man boasts of it he simply discloses how little he does know about this race." And: "In spite of emancipation Negroes still feel it necessary to conceal their thoughts from white people." Moton (1867 - 1940) succeeded Booker T. Washington as the head of Tuskegee Institute. He was an important writer on racial affairs, national and international. Take a look at the intriguing background information below...