Beekman Walter N (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Slim octavo. [18]pp. Stapled printed stiff wrappers. A thin dark strip along the foredge of the cover, likely as issued, wrappers with a bit of soil, and a 3-inch section of marginal rippling on the foredge of the text, a very good copy. A history of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief, with brief biographies of several notable members. Sponsored by the Brooklyn Catholic Interracial Council; the speech was given February 13, 1946, during Negro History Week, at Brooklyn's Ingersoll Memorial Library, Grand Army Plaza. Likely published by either the Society or the Interracial Council. *OCLC* locates five copies.…

Wraps. Stapled. Condition: Like New. First Edition. A concise historical survey of blacks in New York from the earliest Colonial days, with a focus particularly on the organization sponsoring the brochure, and several pages devoted to very short biographies of the Mutual Relief Society's leaders. 8vo. 21 by 14 cm. Unpaginated, 16 glossy pages. Only three institutional holdings noted on OCLC First Search, at the NYPL, NY Historical Society and Notre Dame. Our copy appears untouched. …

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. (16) unnumbered pages. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. Dark brown stripe along right edge of front cover. Beekman, an African American, was a dentist in Brooklyn (graduating from the New York Dental School in 1902) and also a sometime President of the local chapter of the NAACP. His address was a brief view of the history of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief since its formal organization in 1808 including brief mention of its involvement in the Underground Railroad and information by name and trades of several of its most illustrious members. The end date for this Society seems unclear -- some online information has 1945 as an end date but Beekman refers to it as an ongoing society in this 1946 address and organizational records seem to exist up to the late 1940s or possibly the early 1950s.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Slim octavo. [18]pp. Stapled printed stiff wrappers. A thin dark strip along the foredge of the cover, likely as issued, else just about fine. A history of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief, with brief biographies of several notable members. Sponsored by the Brooklyn Catholic Interracial Council; the speech was given February 13, 1946, during Negro History Week, at Brooklyn's Ingersoll Memorial Library, Grand Army Plaza. Likely published by either the Society or the Interracial Council. *OCLC* locates five copies.…