Black-Belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses and Talks to Students
New York: Fortune and Scott, 1898.
First edition, first printing of the author's second book. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear to cloth. Pages lightly toned with light foxing to endsheets. One inked bracket to the margin of quotation reading "Where Resistance Beings: As long as the Negro will be about the streets drunk, lazy and shiftless there is no resistance to him. The resistance comes when he begins to move forward." A collection of Washington's early speeches compiled and edited by the prominent activist for African American women's rights, Victoria Earle Matthews. A lovely copy.
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