AN APPEAL TO CONSCIENCE

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. Very good in good plus jacket.. Early printing, scarce in any form, of this persuasive essay on the double standard in the application of American laws to Black people and white people, including chapters on lynching and segregation. A graduate of Howard University, Miller was an intellectual powerhouse who became first African American to study graduate mathematics. He studied at Johns Hopkins, where he was also the university's first African American student. Taking various leadership positions at Howard University, Miller was integral to many movements for Black education and civil rights in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: he helped W.E.B. Du Bois edit THE CRISIS; he was chairman of the Negro Sanhedrin; and he was active for decades in the American Negro Academy. In APPEAL TO CONSCIENCE, Miller lays out the practical harm of legal double standards experienced by Black citizens. With an introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart, a doctoral advisor of Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, and Charles H. Wesley. Scarce: 9 holdings recorded in OCLC and no auction records. 6.5'' x 3.75''. Original brown paper boards stamped in red and blue. In original brown dust jacket stamped in blue. Publisher's ads at rear. 108, [4] pages. Thin line of dampstain to fore-edge of boards, offsetting from jacket to endpapers. Jacket with soiling (especially at rear fold and spine), large chips at corners and spine ends, 2'' closed tear to front panel.