THE SOUL OF JOHN BROWN [INSCRIBED TO EUNICE HUNTON CARTER FROM KATHRYN MAGNOLIA JOHNSON]

Graham, Stephen

Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1920

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Octavo, 331 pages; G; bound in publisher's blue cloth, gilt titling to spine; general shelfwear and rubbing, stain to rear cover, some discoloration, bumping to corners; spine cocked; ffep with a full-page inscription by Kathryn Magnolia Johnson on June 14, 1921, one year after she published 'Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces' with Addie Waites Hunton. "To Eunice [Hunton] On the day of her graduation from Smith College, with the hope that the book and the following poem may be of some help and inspiration for a future pregnant with the possibilities for service." The poem below from 'The Winds of Fate' by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.; with a business card of Eunice Hunton Carter loose within, single fold to lower fore corner; shelved case 1. Addie Waites Hunton (1866-1943) was an African-American suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, and educator. Hunton worked as vice president and field secretary of the NAACP and she helped to organize the fourth Pan-African Congress in 1927, after previously serving as the national organizer for the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) from 1906 to 1910 and serving in the U.S. Army during World War I. Her daughter, Eunice Carter, was one of New York's first female African-American lawyers, and one of the first prosecutors of color in the United States. She was active in the Pan-African Congress and in United Nations committees to advance the status of women in the world. She led a massive prostitution racketeering investigation, building the case and strategy that allowed New York District Attorney Thomas Dewey to successfully charge Mafioso kingpin Charles "Lucky" Luciano with compulsory prostitution. [wikipedia] Before studying law she spent a brief time as a social worker and wrote short stories, some of which appeared in journals alongside works by Langston Hughes and other writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Hunton married Lisle Carter Sr., who was one of the first African-American dentists in New York. Lisle Carter Jr. was the first modern President of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). Kathryn Magnolia Johnson was one of the first members of the NAACP before joining the YMCA, who sent her to France during WWI. She and Addie Hunton used their experiences there to write 'Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces.'. 1363751. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1363751

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Title: THE SOUL OF JOHN BROWN [INSCRIBED TO EUNICE ...

Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York

Publication Date: 1920

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.