Black Man’s Burden. [Inscribed and signed by the author]

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First Edition. Book of essays on race discrimination by a noted Black novelist from Georgia. Inscribed and Signed by the author [WITH:] a partly printed card of invitation issued to the inscribee for a book signing party for Black Man’s Burden and [WITH:] a 2-sided program for a 1966 book signing for same, sponsored by Ossie Davis, Sidney Poitier and others.

Killens “was associated with Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Finally, in the late 1940s or early 1950s Killens joined three of his friends to form the Harlem Writers’ Guild. Shortly thereafter he read the first chapter of his first novel, Youngblood, to the group; eventually Youngblood became the first work of fiction to come from the guild, which nurtured, among others, Louise Meriwether, Rosa Guy, Maya Angelou, and playwright-actor Ossie Davis.” (ANB)

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