WHITE, Walter

Flight

First edition. Very near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Author's scarce second novel. This copy Inscribed by White to NAACP co-founder, Joel Spingarn: "For Joel E. Spingarn With the warm regard of Walter White." Although always intended as an interracial organization, the administration of the NAACP in its early years was dominated by white liberals. Walter White represented the new generation of black leaders who came to run the organization and was for many years its executive secretary. Flight concerns a light-skinned black woman who flees the South after the Atlanta race riots and marries a white man in the North, eventually leaving him to re-establish her racial ties. A wonderful association copy.

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