American Negroes. A Handbook. [inscribed and signed by the author]

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Chapter titles include “A New Race, the Brown Americans”; “Keeping Alive”; “Learning the New Civilization”; “Half Nazi, Half Democrat”; “Dark Melody”; and “Books By and About Negroes.” Inscribed by author Edwin R. Embree, president from 1930 to 1948 of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, a charitable foundation that was particularly interested in funding the construction of schools for African Americans and in giving grants to Black intellectuals, writers, and artists. This copy inscribed to Louise and Quincy Wright. Louise Wright (b.1896) was a lecturer, author of American Neutrality: Toward a Collective Peace System and Director of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Quincy Wright (1890–1970) was a University of Chicago political scientist, peace activist, advisor to the U.S. Chief of Counsel, Justice Robert H. Jackson, at the Nuremberg Trials, and was the author of such books as A Study of War and The Role of International Law in the Elimination of War; he was at one time proposed as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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