Race, Class, & Party. A history of Negro Suffrage and White Politics in the South. [presentation copy]

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Pioneering study of Black suffrage in the American South by Paul Lewinson (1900–1988), then visiting professor of history at Swarthmore College and later archivist of the Taft Papers at the Library of Congress. “[The book] sets Negro suffrage in its indispensable background of white class and party divisions, and shows the ‘Solid South’ to be the creation of three crises: the attack on slavery which culminated in the Civil War, the Reconstruction period, and the Agrarian Revolt of the eighties and nineties. Each of these crises was preceded in the South by a period of bitter bipartisan politics involving the Negro either as slave or as a voter.” (dust jacket).

This copy presented with the compliments of Paul Lewinson by his father, Phineas Lewinson, to U.S. Appellate Court Judge Augustus Noble Hand (1869–1954) of New York, a cousin of judicial philosopher and U.S. Appellate Court Judge Learned Hand (1872–1961).

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