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In-8°, pp.VI, (2), 181, (3) di catalogo editoriale, legatura editoriale t. tela verde (lievemente scolorita) con titolo in bianco. Buon esemplare. Due firme di possesso. Edizione riveduta, di un anno posteriore alla prima, di questo studio di ispirazione religiosa del Weatherford (Weatherford Parker County, Texas, 1875-Madison County, Kentucky, 1970) sulla condizione dei neri d'America agli inizi del XX secolo: la condizione economica dei neri, la loro educazione, le loro condizioni abitative, la loro vita religiosa, i rimedi da porre alle situazioni disagevoli della popolazione afroamericana. Frutto di una conferenza tenuta ad Atlanta nel 1908, il libro fu impiegato nel College Young Men's Christian Association. '. During his years of travel for the YMCA he became increasingly sensitive to the plight of blacks in the South, and in 1910 he published Negro Life in the South as a study book for college students in YMCA programs. The volume was widely distributed and had a liberalizing effect on thousands of southern students. He published a number of other works on racial issues, among them The Negro from Africa to America (1924) and Race Relations, with Charles S. Johnson, (1934). Weatherford organized college-level courses on Negro life and race relations during summer sessions at Blue Ridge and eventually supported interracial student conferences on the assembly grounds. In 1919 he was instrumental in the founding of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and served on the board until it was reorganized as the Southern Regional Council.' (George P. Antone in William S. Powell, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1996).