first edition
[1960] · New York
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] [NAACP]
New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, [1960]. Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; [12]pp. Slight toning to wrapper edges, else Near Fine.
The title is taken from a Langston Hughes poem, quoted on the first page of text: "Negroes / Sweet and docile, / Meek, humble and kind; / Beware the day / They change their minds." One of the earliest documentations of the student sit-in movement in the south, photographically-illustrated from scenes in Nashville, Montgomery, Oklahoma City, and elsewhere (photo credits to Cecil Layne). Opens with the 1960 "Open Letter" from students at the HBCU North Carolina A&M: "...Negroes, who are also citizens of North Carolina, can no longer remain quiet and complacent and continue to accept such gross injustrice from those who desire no change in old customs..." Scarce in commerce; only a single copy traced in the auction record (Hake's, 2021); 14 copies in OCLC. (Inventory #: 83465)
The title is taken from a Langston Hughes poem, quoted on the first page of text: "Negroes / Sweet and docile, / Meek, humble and kind; / Beware the day / They change their minds." One of the earliest documentations of the student sit-in movement in the south, photographically-illustrated from scenes in Nashville, Montgomery, Oklahoma City, and elsewhere (photo credits to Cecil Layne). Opens with the 1960 "Open Letter" from students at the HBCU North Carolina A&M: "...Negroes, who are also citizens of North Carolina, can no longer remain quiet and complacent and continue to accept such gross injustrice from those who desire no change in old customs..." Scarce in commerce; only a single copy traced in the auction record (Hake's, 2021); 14 copies in OCLC. (Inventory #: 83465)
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