WEAVER, Robert C.
The Negro Ghetto.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1948.
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First Edition of The Negro Ghetto; Inscribed by Robert C. Weaver to Civil Rights Leader Henry Lee Moon
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.
The Negro Ghetto (1948) was among the first comprehensive studies of racial residential segregation in the United States, documenting how housing policy, restrictive covenants, and discrimination confined African Americans to overcrowded urban districts, and setting out a program for democratic, integrated housing. Its author, Robert C. Weaver (1907 to 1997), was a Harvard-trained economist and a leading member of Franklin Roosevelt's informal Black Cabinet who, in 1966, became the first African American to serve in a United States presidential cabinet when Lyndon Johnson appointed him the inaugural Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The recipient, Henry Lee Moon (1901 to 1985), was a journalist and civil rights activist who had worked alongside Weaver in the New Deal administration and who, in 1948, published his influential study Balance of Power: The Negro Vote and began his long tenure as director of public relations for the NAACP, a post he would hold for more than twenty-five years.
The Negro Ghetto.
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