Brainwashed--? and Ignored

Published by [Self published], Detroit, MI, 1976

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Assumed first edition. 78pp. A pamphlet about African Americans and civil rights through the lenses of education, politics and more. Bound in publisher's green wraps printed in black. Near Fine with light soiling and light edge wear, sunning to wraps. Grigsby was an African American civil rights advocate and trade unionist. In his more than 40 years as a clerk in the Detroit post office, he employed his low-key strategies to improve working conditions for his fellow workers. He once told a reporter about how he got the postmaster to let blacks work at the counter windows. "During the '20s, they wouldn't even let Negroes work at the window selling stamps. I asked the postmaster, and his answer was that white people would not stand for buying stamps from Negroes," Grigsby recalled. "I told him the post office had a monopoly on selling stamps, and I said if [whites] don't buy them at the post office, where are they going to buy them?".

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Title
Brainwashed--? and Ignored
Author
Grigsby, Snow F.
Publisher
[Self published], Detroit, MI
Publication year
1976
Condition
Near Fine
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African American, Social Movements

Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

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