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Langston Hughes. The Langston Hughes Reader. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1958. First edition. Presentati...
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An outstanding association copy, linking two giants of the Civil Rights Era, inscribed by Langston Hughes to Judge Thurgood Marshall: "...Well Done! -- You did it!!..."
Langston Hughes. The Langston Hughes
Reader. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1958.
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to
Judge Thurgood Marshall on the front free endpaper,
"Especially for His Honour Judge Thurgood Marshall - Well Done!
- You did it!! / Sincerely, Langston / Harlem, October, 1961."
Additionally signed by Marshall on the half-title. Octavo.
Publisher's original cloth-backed boards; original dust jacket.Inscribed by one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance to the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall met while both students at Lincoln University in southern Chester County in Pennsylvania, where they lived in the same dormitory together. Hughes entered Lincoln University in the winter of 1925, and, at the time, he had already successfully published his highly acclaimed The Weary Blues. He would go on to become one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, the voice of his generation, whose literary works helped shape American literature and politics during the Desegregation Era.
Marshall recalled later, "Langston was at Lincoln with me. One of the greatest people I've ever known. He knew everything there was to be known. He'd been around the world twice before he was 21 on tramp steamers. He studied and he just self studied and then he went to Lincoln. He was a great guy. I liked him."
Prior to his judicial service, Thurgood Marshall was a prominent Civil Rights lawyer who argued (and won) many cases relating to racial segregation in schools, most notably the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. He served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991, and was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice.
This copy would presumably have been given to Marshall when President Kennedy appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in October 1961.
Condition: Some very minor rubbing to boards; dust jacket with several chips and creases.
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