James Cummins Bookseller

[Washington, D.C: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1936.

Price: $1,200.00

About the item

First edition, first(?) issue without rubber stamp on front cover. Illustrated. 16 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Pictorial self wrappers, cover design “Ethiopia Appeals for Justice by James Lesense Wells. Fine.

Item #334488

First edition, issue without the publisher's statement in rubberstamp on lower front cover: "The pamphlets for 1937 are exhausted. This copy of 1936 has most of the same thought and suggestions." Front cover with a large wood or lino cut entitled, "Ethiopia Appeals for Justice," by African-American artist James Lesesne Wells.

Negro History Week was started by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1926. He also founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and Associated Publishers in 1924. James Lesesne Wells was active during the Harlem Renaissance. He provided illustrations for "The Crisis" and "Opportunity" and taught at Howard University. The bulk of the text consists of a six-page essay by Carter G. Woodson, "The Study of the Negro," as well as "The Reconstruction of History" by Charles H. Wesley, and a bibliography: "Suggestive materials for a program for the celebration of Negro history week." Scarce.