How Far the Promised Land? [with a Full-Page Inscription from Atlantic City NAACP. President Margaret Lee Caution]

WHITE, Walter

Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1956

About this Item

Second edition. Foreword by Ralph J. Bunche. Octavo. 244pp. Ex-library with a spine label, bookplate, a few stamps and marks (one stamp, annoyingly, over a part of the inscription), and the rear pocket roughly removed, taking a portion of the page and leaving an abrasion. Binding with modest wear and soiling, along with a lightly sunned spine, sound and overall good or better. The text is fine. With a lovely, over one-page gift inscription by Margaret Lee Caution, President of the Atlantic City, New Jersey Branch of the NAACP, presenting the book to the library. Dated June 8, 1956, she writes in part that the book "is the fascinatingly interesting story of the progress of the American Negro, showing his struggles against discrimination and segregation, and the resulting advances and accomplishments. We are presenting this volume to the readers of Atlantic City with the hope that it will stimulate interest in the goal of the NAACP. for complete freedom for the Negro by 1956. Margaret L. Caution, President." A historical marker has been raised in Atlantic City to honor Margaret Lee Caution, and is worth quoting at some length: "An Atlantic City native, Mrs. Caution, and her late husband Russell, were the first major South Jersey distributors of African-American oriented magazines and newspapers, beginning as far back as the 1930s. Mrs. Caution, a writer and printer, wrote many columns on Atlantic City's Black community for the *Atlantic City Press* and the *Afro-American Newspaper*. She owned and operated The Victor Press at 1703 Arctic Avenue. Active in civic life, she held top offices in such service organizations as: the NAACP, New Jersey State Federation and the Order of Eastern Star. She served on the N.J. Civil Rights Commission as an adviser to Governor Alfred E. Driscoll." A flawed copy with a lovely association.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Far the Promised Land? [with a Full-Page Inscription from Atlantic City NAACP. President Margaret Lee Caution]
• Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
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