Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son.
by Baldwin, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Dial Press, 1961. First edition of Baldwin's second major book of essays, featuring his powerful analyses of the politics of race and his controversial three-part essay on Richard Wright. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "For Morris Milgram: My ally & friend, with the prayer that we'll keep on fighting. Jimmy B. -& sooner or later, we'll win." The recipient, Morris Milgram was a civil rights advocate and fair housing developer, who fought for integrated housing across the United States following World War II. In 1954, Milgram built the earliest racially integrated private housing community in the United States, Concord Park, in Trevose, Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia. The following year, in 1955, Milgram developed Greenbelt Knoll in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, the first planned racially integrated community in the city. Greenbelt Knoll was designated an historic district by the Philadelphia Historic Commission in 2006 upon its 60th anniversary. In 1968, Milgram became the first recipient of the National Human Rights Award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In his lifetime Milgram was instrumental in developing and managing housing for some 20,000 people in the Philadelphia area, as well as in Boston, Chicago, California, and Virginia. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Jonas. Photograph by Roy Hyrkin. An exceptional association linking Baldwin, one of America's most incisive writers and Milgram, one of the leading civil rights advocate and fair housing developer, one of the finest possible.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133249
- Title
- Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son.
- Author
- Baldwin, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Nobody Knows My Name. More Notes of a Native Son First Edition
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