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Language: English
Published by Extreme-Orient 1943
- Hardcover
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. [From the library of Dr. Ralph Gomes, Howard University.] Bound in blue buckram cloth. Hardcover. Text in French. Shelf wear. Map included, but torn. Dr. Gomes was a professor at Howard University for 49 years in sociology and criminology. He was also a former Olympic athlete, representing Guyana in t…he 1960 Rome summer Olympics. Besides his scholarly work, Gomes was active in the black liberation movement. He had an impressive and deep collection of black art, historical advertising and iconography that spoke of the passage of black people and how they sought to record their life stories. His collection spanned from slavery, to antebellum life, to Jim Crow, to the Harlem Renaissance, to sport, to the civil rights movement.