Beyond the Burning: Life and Death of the Ghetto [Inscribed to Dorothy Height]

Author: [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] TUCKER, Sterling
Title: Beyond the Burning: Life and Death of the Ghetto [Inscribed to Dorothy Height]
Publication: New York: Association Press, 1968
Edition: First Edition

Description: First Printing. Octavo (21cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-160pp. Inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand to American civil rights activist Dorothy Height (1912-2010): "Dear Dorothy – I don't know why I think you have time to read amateur works with all the important tasks ahead of you. Nevertheless, I wanted you to have it and hope it says something worthwhile / Sincerely / Sterling / 9/12/68." Tiny indentations to upper and lower rear board edge, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), lightly edgeworn and a little dust-soiled, with a few tiny tears and attendant creases, and a small triangular chip to lower edge of rear panel; Very Good+.

"This book sets out to examine the metropolitan problems which produce tension, affliction and rioting, and which deny equal access and opportunity to the American Negro. It will argue that any steps short of ghetto elimination are doomed because it is the ghetto and its perpetrators which force man to live in a perpetual state of desperation. It is the ghetto which breeds violence" (from front flap). An attractive copy, connecting two noted civil rights figures: Tucker (1923-2019) was a D.C. author involved in local politics, who worked in the Poor People's Campaign with Ralph Abernathy and Coretta Scott King. Dorothy Height (1912-2010) was a women's rights activist from Virginia, who worked with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune at the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), and alongside the principal figures in the Civil Rights Movement. Not in Blockson. 90465.

Seller ID: 90465

Subject: African-Americana, Association Copies, Racism & Anti-Semitism, Slums & Housing, Social History


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