WILLIAM ALPHAEUS HUNTON - A PIONEER PROPHET OF YOUNG MEN [INSCRIBED BY ADDIE HUNTON TO HER GRANDSON]

Hunton, Addie W.

Published by Association Press, New York, 1938

About this Item

Octavo, xii, 176 pages; G/none; bound in publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine; mild shelfwear and rubbing; light chipping to head of spine, wear to tail of spine; lacking dust jacket, although a small piece of the spine with the title is preserved; some finger smudges, primarily to upper fore corner; Inscribed by Addie Hunton "To my beloved grandson - Lisle C Carter, Jr. whom I want to know his grandfather Hunton. Addie W. Hunton - better known as "Gammie." July 1938; extremely scarce; 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). This is Addie Hunton's biography of her husband, William Alphaeus Hunton, an executive for the YMCA and the first black secretary of the international committee and the founder of the black division of the YMCA. 1363723. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1363723

Bibliographic Details

Title: WILLIAM ALPHAEUS HUNTON - A PIONEER PROPHET ...

Publisher: Association Press, New York

Publication Date: 1938

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.