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  First Edition of The Negro Ghetto; Inscribed by Robert C. Weaver to Civil Rights Leader Henry Lee Moon

  WEAVER, Robert C.

  The Negro Ghetto.

  New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948.

  First edition of this pioneering study of racial residential segregation in American cities by the economist who would become the first African American member of a United States presidential cabinet. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Henry Lee Moon with admiration and regards, Robert C. Weaver 1948." The recipient, journalist and civil rights leader Henry Lee Moon, had worked under Weaver on Franklin Roosevelt's Black Cabinet and in this same year became director of public relations for the NAACP. Very good in a good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

  Price: $5,000.00     Item Number: 152267

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