Taps or Reveille - ?
Detroit, MI: [Self published], 1956.
Assumed first edition. 64pp. A pamphlet about African Americans and politics. Bound in publisher's original orange stapled wraps printed in black. Near Fine with light edge wear, light sunning to wraps, light creases, sticker shadow to rear wrap. An African American civil rights advocate and trade unionist. In his more than 40 years as a clerk in the Detroit post office, he employed his low-key strategies to improve working conditions for his fellow workers. He once told a reporter about how he got the postmaster to let blacks work at the counter windows. "During the '20s, they wouldn't even let Negroes work at the window selling stamps. I asked the postmaster, and his answer was that white people would not stand for buying stamps from Negroes," Grigsby recalled. "I told him the post office had a monopoly on selling stamps, and I said if [whites] don't buy them at the post office, where are they going to buy them?"
Price: $550.00