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Darkest Africa at A Century of Progress 1933 : Official Souvenir
Language: English
Published by Dufour & Rogers, Chicago, 1933
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 25 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white photographs), map. Very Good, rear cover filled with faint pencil writing (showing list of different attractions visited on Nov. 3 and 4, 1933), 1" tear at top edge of wrappers at spine fold, small prior owner name title page. "Darkest Africa" presented representatives from Algeria, Nigeria, Kameroon, the Gold Coast, and the Belgian Congo brought to the Fair by Lew Dufour and Joe Rogers. Unfortunately ". several concessions, notably the Darkest Africa show, openly ridiculed African Americans. Furthermore, despite early promises from exposition directors, African Americans were discriminated against in exposition employment practices and were refused service in several restaurants on the fairgrounds." (Encyclopedia of Chicago: Century of Progress Exposition). SCARCE, OCLC locates 4 libraries in the US with copies, notably none of those located in Chicago.
